Unions, States Clash in Race to Top Wall Street Journal: Since the first winners were picked, spats have erupted from Florida to Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota and Colorado over demands that unions agree to proposals on merit pay and teacher evaluation to strengthen the state's chances of winning federal money...
Teachers Next To Go NPR: After cutting their budgets to the bone and exhausting millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds, school districts have resorted to staff cuts to balance their budgets. New Jersey, California and Illinois are among the hardest-hit states...
Education" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/education/24imagine.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); ">For School Company, Issues of Money and Control NYT: School boards and regulators are questioning how public money is spent by a commercial manager of charters.[Read below for more headlines]
Study: After genes, teachers help kids read faster USA Today: Genetics play the biggest role in determining how fast a child learns to read, but a good teacher can make a measurable difference as well, according ...
NJ voters reject 59 percent of school budgets AP: The state pastime in New Jersey may be complaining about the state's highest-in-the-nation property taxes, but it's rare for voters to stand up against them....
Black woman leads former whites-only Philly school AP: The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as "a black girl from Richmond, Virginia," would have excluded her in years past...
