A bet on No Child Left Behind
This was written by Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit organization created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. This appeared on the institute’s website.
By Richard Rothstein
Read full article >>State revisits nation’s first teacher-student ‘Facebook law’
Missouri became the first state in the nation this year to put a law on the books barring public school teachers and students from having private contact on Facebook and other electronic media — all in an effort to prevent sexual misconduct. Now lawmakers have changed their minds — sort of.
The measure, part of a broader law signed in July by Gov. Jay Nixon, was supposed to go into effect in late August but a judge blocked its implementation after a lawsuit was filed by the Missouri Teachers Association and teachers and students complained that it was unfair.
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