Big Education Ape: This Week In Education: AM News: "Furloughing" Students

Monday, August 9, 2010

by Alexander Russo

Going to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On NYT: Plenty of businesses and governments furloughed workers this year, but Hawaii went further — it furloughed its schoolchildren... States cut preschool from budgets USA Today: States are cutting hundreds of millions from their prekindergarten budgets, undermining years of working to help young children... Reading and math scores fall sharply at two KIPP schools in District Washington Post: Reading and math scores fell sharply at two of the three high-performing D.C. charter middle schools operated by the Knowledge Is Power Program...Cheating Scandal Haunts Atlanta School Superintendent NYT: Even after an independent investigation recently found that the problem was much less widespread, critics have called for her resignation and attacked the investigation’s credibility... White supremacist running for Calif. school board AP: A white supremacist is running for a Southern California school board seat....