MoCo school board fights back over cuts
Board prepares lawsuit to stop more cuts to MoCo schools budget
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Montgomery County School Superintendent Jerry Weast (TWP).Posted at 6:30 AM ET, 05/ 4/2010
Arizona strikes again: Now it is ethnic studies
First Arizona passed a law requiring police to question anybody who looks like an illegal immigrant. Then we learn that the state order school districts to get rid of teachers with very heavy accents. Then the legislature approved a bill targeted at a Mexican-American studies program that the state education chief doesn't like. Arizona doesn't know when to quit.
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AFT: Rhee's anti-leak strategy less than watertight
We learned from Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee at her Friday D.C. Council testimony that the fiscal disarray following the contract announcement was actually an attempt to avoid that worst of all possible worlds: a leak to the press. Rhee said that ideally the District would have buttoned down all financial issues and secured District CFO Natwar M.Gandhi's certification before announcing the terms of the contract, as it did on April 7. But the fear was that details would leak while it was pending in Gandhi's office, agitating union members.
"We made the decision to first make the announcement," Rhee said, adding that the union leadership was also on board with that approach.
Not willingly, said AFT president Randi Weingarten.
Not willingly, said AFT president Randi Weingarten.
"It was her concern, not our concern," Weingarten said Monday. "Did we agree to a joint strategy? Yes," she said. "But there was many a conversation about this particular issue. We thought it should go to Gandhi," followed by a public roll out and then submission to union members.
Like some council members, Weingarten said she was perplexed about the lack of consultation with District financial officials as the contract was being assembled.
"I would have expected there would have been preliminary conversations with those responsible for the finances," she said. "I was surprised as anybody else about the initial back and forth."
Ed Buzz: The Nation
- Arizona targets ethnic studies programs(Education Week)
- Foundations offer $506M for ed. innovation (Education Week)
- Boston-area Catholic schools welcome Haitian refugees (Associated Press)
- Panel finds no preference in teacher-prep paths (Education Week)
- Cyber high re-engages dropouts, at-risk students (Education Week)
- 56,000 images taken by Web cams on Penn. student laptops (USA Today)
- Rule change takes aim at loophole in Title IX (New York Times)
- Illinois school fighting cyber-bullying(Chicago Tribune)
- Boston teachers asked to work more hours for same pay (Boston Globe)
- Advocates weigh Obama's commitment to early ed. (Education Week)
- Bilingual ed., immersion work equally well (Education Week)
- Schools tackle teacher-on-teacher bullying (USA Today)
Ed Buzz: The Region
- Cuccinelli backs Patrick Henry funding deal (Richmond Times Dispatch)
- Frederick Community College ups tuition (The Gazette)
- Va. phasing out test for special needs students (Examiner)
- Md. falling behind on ed. reforms(Baltimore Sun)
- Va. gets $59.8 million to overhaul struggling schools (Washington Times)
- Are school lunches a threat to national security? (WUSA)
- MoCo school investigates cyber-bully threats (WUSA)
- P.W. dad wins FOIA fight with school board (Potomac News)
