AM News: Drug Companies Might Pay For $10B Edujobs
Lawmakers target 'pay-for-delay' Politico: administration and House Democratic officials told POLITICO that it’s being actively discussed now in a new effort to come up with $10 billion in spending cuts and savings to offset emergency assistance to local school boards this summer... Major Foundation Gets Set to Open a Charter School EdWeek: With plans to open a charter school next year in its Kansas City hometown, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation breaks new ground...N.Va. Community College offers career switchers quick path to teaching Washington Post: As part of a statewide effort to fill a shortage of public schoolteachers, Northern Virginia Community College offers a program that promises to move people from other careers into the classroom in 16 weeks... What's Life Like For Gay Kids In Public Schols? NPR: High school is a challenging time for most teens. It can be even more so for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Judy Chiasson of the Los Angeles Unified School District and Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network talk about being openly LGBT in school.
UPK: Back From The Dead [corrected]
Just when you think universal preschool (UPK) is finally dead, it comes back again. This time its return comes in the form of a massive cover package in The American Prospect featuring scads of pro-early childhood education articles by the likes of Sara Mead and Cornelia Grumman. Don't they know that there's a recession on, and no one has time or money to think about the little kids?Reading for Life
Literacy Begins at Birth
Lessons From New Jersey
Missing Out on Reading
Health Education
Literacy Begins at Birth
Lessons From New Jersey
Missing Out on Reading
Health Education
CORRECTION: Apologies to all. As many of you have already noticed, these stories are not about UPK, which is indeed dead for now. They're about early learning K-3, which was apparently close to a BIG payday in the healthcare bill and is in motion to benefit from a "Race To The Top for early ed."