This Week In Education

This Week In Education

USDE: Duncan Kept VIP List For Magnet Admissions

Talk about tight and loose. While Arne Duncan's successor tries to sort out Chicago's highly compromised, clout-riddled magnet schools admissions process and come up with a system that is sturdier and more transparent, the Tribune now reveals that the Duncan team kept a 40-page list of VIPs including Desiree Rogers and 25 city councilmen who attempted to intercede to get children who had been rejected or hadn't even applied into popular schools. The calls and letters didn't always work, everyone is careful to note, and Duncan's Peter Cunningham describes the list as an effort to centralize

News: Appropriators Push Back Against Funding Proposals

Congressional Pushback on Race to the Top, Competitive Grants Alyson KleinPK12: Last week, lawmakers began to turn up the pushback on the department's budget proposal, including an extension for the $4 billion Race to the Top program for another year. Duncan’s whirlwind tour of DenverNancy Mitchell Ed News CO: The education secretary comes to hear tales of collaboration from Douglas County, Denver and the Eastern Plains - and raises hopes for R2T. Miss. officials defend canceling prom after same-sex date request AP: School officials who canceled a prom after a lesbian student asked to bring her girlfriend told a federal judge yesterday that there were issues with the event even before that. NH teacher in nude pics case waives arraignment AP: A New Hampshire high school English teacher charged with e-mailing nude photos of herself to a 15-year-old male student has decided to waive her arraignment.

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