Wednesday, May 5, 2010

This Week In Education AM News: How CA Districts Got Back Into RTTT

This Week In Education

AM News: How CA Districts Got Back Into RTTT

340x_mic_California rejoins Race to the Top race, sort of LA Times: The Obama administration badly wanted California to apply, in order to avoid the embarrassment of having the biggest state with the most children rejecting its signature Race to the Top initiative... Report: No spying in Pa. school laptops case AP: There's no evidence a suburban school district used school-issued laptops to spy on students according to a report issued Monday by attorneys hired by the district... Education" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/us/politics/05schools.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); ">Michigan High School Wins Obama as Graduation Speaker NYT: President Obama will speak at the Kalamazoo Central High School graduation. The school won a Race to the Top competition...Two teens charged in death of D.C. principal Washington Post: Montgomery County police said Betts met the suspects on a phone-sex chat line in the hours before he was killed...Wisconsin Law Targets Race-Based Mascots NPR: The law could affect 36 Wisconsin schools that currently have Native American-based mascots or logos. Robert Siegel talks to Dale Henry, who is principal of Mukwonago High School. The school's sports logo is an American Indian.