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S.D. district won’t cut back on ‘minimum days’
San Diego schools will not cut back on “minimum days” to make up for the lost instruction time that will come with five furlough days during each of the next two years.
'Math wars' over national standards may erupt again in California
3.31.10 - Hold on to your graphing calculators: The passionate, contentious debate over how California students should learn math is ready to erupt again...City Controller questions payments to charter-school accountant
An accountant was paid $700,561 over four years by three city charter schools and claimed to have worked more than 365 days in each year, City Controller Alan Butkovitz disclosed yesterday. ...This $550 exec seat cost kids millions in NY
The state failed to get a penny in education funds doled out by Washington this week after clueless bureaucrats were dopey enough to admit to the feds they would have blown more than $200,000 on expensive furniture for their offices. ...Durham parents oppose cutbacks for schools
Parents, teachers, principals and students asked, pled or almost demanded Tuesday night that Durham County commissioners cut no funding for Durham Public Schools next year. ...Teachers' union withholds support for furloughs proposal
Three of four Clark County School District employee unions have offered to take unpaid furloughs to prevent mass layoffs, but the teachers union, the largest bargaining group, is withholding its support for the proposal.... ...
Critics say administration’s blueprint is too similar to NCLB
As the Obama administration seeks support for its plan to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), many education policy analysts worry that the new blueprint's guidelines are too reminiscent of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind... ...
School staffing cuts loom
More than 160 teaching positions could be cut next school year in the Hinds County, Canton, Clinton and Rankin County districts ...CMS board rejects pay cuts, closings; seeks furloughs
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday pinned its 2010-11 budget-cutting hopes on the state legislature, hoping to get permission to furlough employees and tinker with the school calendar....Anger turns toward school staff in bullying case
Enraged by revelations that staff members at South Hadley High School knew that Phoebe Prince was the target of withering harassment long before her death, residents and public officials yesterday ...Deliberations stop in teacher trial
A former Southwest DeKalb High School teacher told jurors that he stopped a striptease and simulated sex acts in his classroom as soon as he saw it. ...House passes anti-bullying bill
Sparked by Jaheem Herrera's death, bill would require schools to tell parents when their child is victim or instigator. ...
Jay Mathews: KIPP visitor's critique, KIPP leader's response
3.31.10 - suegjoyce: “Kids at KIPP are drilled and tested over and over again with scores posted in hallway for all to see. ALL scores, good or bad.” Shirey: We do have an interim testing program, and believe strongly in posting data, but this is only...Researchers take new look at teenage brain
It has become commonplace these days to hear that teens are victims of their own immature brains and raging hormones....
Prep schools look abroad for students
When Dixi Wu finished middle school in Kunming, China, last year, she had a hard decision to make. The skilled violinist and top-ranked student tested into one of the most competitive high schools in her province...
Enforcing School Standards, at Last
Only Delaware and Tennessee will receive first-round grants to support ambitious school reforms. The remaining states, including New York, need to retool their applications....School defibrillator proves lifesaver for one Pearland teen
The players panicked as they surrounded an unconscious Jonathan Moore on the football field outside Pearland's Glenda Dawson High School on March 3....Uproar Over School Cafeteria That Doubled as a Nightclub
School district officials in Philadelphia say a charter school’s cafeteria was used as a nightclub on weekends...Paterson Delays School Aid, Citing State’s Lack of Money
After another budget deal falls through, the governor said the state did not have enough cash to cover $2.1 billion in aid payments that districts were expecting this week. ...