This Week In Education: Media: A Sunday Talk Show -- For Education

This Week In Education: Media: A Sunday Talk Show -- For Education

Media: A Sunday Talk Show -- For Education

by Alexander Russo

A glut of blogs. A swarm of Twitterers. What's missing from the education mediasphere? A Sunday talk (or radio) show featuring honest debate among smart people who don't all agree but aren't selling something or yelling and screaming at each other, either. That was the idea behind the Month In Review, an extremely low-tech audio roundtable that I hosted on and off in 2007 and 2008 with the help of folks like Stephanie Banchero (WSJ), Diana Schemo (NYT), Jay Mathews (WPost), Greg Toppo (USA Today), and Beth

AM News: Hard Times For Charters And Lunch Ladies

by Alexander Russo

Many Chicago Charter Schools Run Deficits NYT: Even though Chicago’s charter schools brought in $21 million in private money from foundations, corporations and wealthy individuals in 2007 — the last year for which complete information is available — half have run an average of $700,000 in deficits in recent years... Reform Hits School Workers Hard WBEZ: Over three years, 285 support staff lost their positions in Chicago turnarounds. The district says just 14 employees won jobs back in those schools. About one in five found positions elsewhere in the system... Attention to Poor Urban Schools Helped Raise Conn. Ranking EdWeek: The percentage of Connecticut schools that met federal benchmarks for math and reading rose to 72 percent this year... Ed Secretary Duncan to speak at Clinton library Arkansas News: Duncan will lecture Aug. 25 on education reform and the Obama administration’s back-to-school education agenda.

Edujobs: States Scramble To Find Uses For Funding

by Alexander Russo

It's the teacher bailout that came to late, or wasn't needed, or might be needed next year. More news about what states are going to do with edujobs money: Education" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/nyregion/13yonkers.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); ">After Layoffs, Yonkers Trims Curriculum NYT: Amid a statewide fiscal crisis, Yonkers has laid off 90 teachers, which will force it to increase class sizes... Education jobs bill will mean $250 million for Virginia Hampton Roads: Locally, layoffs have been rare, with nine teachers losing their jobs in Norfolk and two in Northampton County... Illinois to get $415M for education jobs AP: In Elgin, the largest district outside of Chicago, 1,000 of 5,000 education jobs were cut last school year,