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Klein claims victory on rubber rooms
Chancellor Joel Klein took a victory lap Friday to celebrate a deal to close the "rubber rooms," but skeptics question whether the city can transform teacher discipline.
Governor Christie of New Jersey has won an important victory against unions and for fiscal sanity
4.23.10 - Just a few months into his term, Christie has taken the fight to the blood-engorged leech of a public sector so quickly and so hard that one teacher-union apparatchik sent an e-mail to thousands praying for his untimely demise....Alabama school official says evaluation proposal would change tenure
A proposal to change the way teachers are evaluated in Alabama would tie teacher effectiveness to student achievement and could make it harder for educators to obtain tenure....Teachers strike in Capistrano school district
Hundreds of teachers walk picket lines in a labor dispute. Few incidents were reported; about 39% of students attended class. ...Kids at work: Schools urge skipping of annual event
CHICAGO (AP) — Many U.S. school districts urged parents to keep their kids in class and not take them to work Thursday for an annual event they say disrupts learning at an increasingly critical time of year. ...Texas' Clout Over Textbooks Could Shift With Market
Regardless of the degree of influence Texas wields on texts nationally, recent state laws on digital materials could force change. ...
Lawmakers OK bigger class sizes
Lawmakers gave Georgia school systems breathing room this week by allowing them to expand class sizes to save money. ...Lesbian student sues over prom flap
ABERDEEN, Miss. -- The lesbian teenager from Mississippi who challenged her school district's ban on same-sex prom dates is seeking unspecified monetary damages, claiming she was publicly humiliated. ...Even more education trouble in Florida
4.23.10 - The Florida Legislature doesn't give up trying to drastically change the public education system:...
Nepotism, conflict of interest find a home at charter schools
A Daily News investigation has found some charters hiring wives, husbands and children of school officials and board trustees as vendors, teachers aides and consultants....
Unions don't learn: Teachers' role in education
Teachers unions need a hug. After all, they're having a really bad year. So bad that their members are... ...Local school districts dismiss class-size reductions
Remember class-size reduction – the push for classes of no more than 20 students per teacher that swept California public schools in the 1990s?...Settlement near in Web cam suit?
Attorneys for the Lower Merion School District spent more than four hours Wednesday discussing a possible financial settlement with the Penn Valley parents whose son sued the district over its secret laptop tracking program...Phila. School District proposes $3.2B budget
Bucking a national trend of layoffs and deep cuts, the School District of Philadelphia on Wednesday introduced a $3.2 billion 2010-11 budget that contains money for new classroom initiatives. ...