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Board president urges public to get involved in education
Calling for renewed community involvement in public education, San Diego school board President Richard Barrera delivered a State of the District address last night that asked residents to rally around local school reforms and fight to reclaim funding that has been gutted by the state.
Diversity supporters play offense
The new Wake County school board majority's plan to abandon the use of socioeconomic diversity will be fought every step of the way by groups that vow to block efforts to implement neighborhood schools. ...After-school programs to close due to budget cuts
First, the two young boys' lives were turned upside down when their mother suffered a stroke and fell into a coma ...Bank seizes money from districts embroiled in risky investments
A European bank that lent money to five Wisconsin school districts that made risky investments has seized $5.6 million from district-controlled trusts to try to compel district officials to repay the debt ...
After years of explosive growth, schools to feel economic pinch for years to come
No public entity has been affected more by Southern Nevada’s explosive growth than the Clark County School District, which used soaring enrollment to leverage a $3.5 billion capital campaign to build more than 100 campuses, while adding dozens of programs and thousands of employees....Pennsylvania establishes first statewide Digital Learning Library »
In a groundbreaking effort to give educators and students free access to standards-aligned digital media content, Pennsylvania has announced the launch of its Digital Learning Library (DLL), which aims to bring learning into the 21st century though interactive... ...Group wants to free education from limits of TABOR
Should the legislature be allowed to raise taxes without a vote of the people if the money goes to help education? A coalition of education advocates and Democratic lawmakers thinks so. ...
Thomas Jefferson remains in social studies curriculum
3.25.10 After hours of public testimony and more than 100 amendments offered to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for social studies, the State Board of Education last week gave preliminary approval to the curriculum standards that will be used in Texas public schools...
Cash crunch hits more schools
School systems all over Illinois are in deep financial trouble. On Wednesday, the state Board of Education identified which ones are hurting the most....
Teachers rally as schools cut $60M
School committee members voted through a sweeping package of cuts and... ...
Sweeping school lunch bill clears Senate panel
Senators cleared the path Wednesday for a final vote on legislation to bolster the safety and...
'False assumptions' about standards
James E. Helmreich's March 21 letter against "new national school standards" rests on multiple false assumptions -- starting with the premise that Washington is driving this historic initiative. The creation...
Jay Mathews: Judging high schools by students' college success
The National Student Clearinghouse began to build its database of more than 93 million students in more than 3,300 colleges and universities to verify enrollment of students for loan companies. Now it is focused on informing high schools how their graduates are doing. ...Reading scores stagnating despite NCLB
Reading achievement in D.C. public schools has climbed in the fourth grade in recent years, the federal government reported Wednesday, while progress nationwide has stalled despite huge instructional efforts launched under the No Child Left Behind law...
Why Freer Schools Are Better Schools
The charter school movement is succeeding because it liberates teachers and principals from rules and regulations and holds them accountable for results...
TEA can keep lid on grant forms, Abbott rules
The Texas Education Agency can keep secret its application for a competitive federal grant that could have netted public schools as much as $800 million, according to a ruling from the state attorney general's office. ...
Stagnant National Reading Scores Lag Behind Math
The nation’s school children made little or no progress in reading proficiency in recent years, according to the largest nationwide reading test. Why math scores have improved faster is much-debated....
SHOCK: Mother furious after in-school clinic sets up daughter's abortion...
SEATTLE -- The mother of a Ballard High School student is fuming after the health center on campus helped facilitate her daughter's abortion during school hours....
Understanding Beginning Reading Development in Preschoolers
3.25.10 - It’s easy to track your preschooler’s growth by measuring his or her height with a yardstick. But how can you measure your child’s development in other areas, such as beginning reading? Do you know if he or she is learning and mastering age-appropriate early reading skills? ...