EDUCATION POLICY CHOICES: Unsuccessful, Unproven or Unaffordable
Themes in the News for the week of Sept. 26-30, 2011 by UCLA IDEA | http://bit.ly/o6gr2Q 09-29-2011 - Last week, President Barack Obama affirmed that states were struggling under unrealistic requirements of the No Child Left Behind law. States can now obtain waivers from meeting proficiency rates in reading and mathematics, in return for adopting key pieces of the administration’s reform agenda.
UC TURNS CAREER TECH ED FRIENDLY: Approval of Business Algebra II and Automotive Physics for A-G signifies change
By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/pdVdVE Posted on 9/30/11 • A decade ago, 258 career technical education courses counted toward satisfying requirements for admission to the California State University or the University of California. Today, the number has grown to 9,079 courses, closing in on the 2012 goal of 10,000 courses that the Legislature set several years ago.
CCCTEC CHARTER FAILURE “…symptomatic of other charter school defaults, which happen ‘with great regularity’”. Zeiger sees tens of millions of dollars lost
previous CCCTEC stories: CHARTER SCHOOL SHUTDOWN LEAVES STUDENTS, TEACHERS SCRAMBLING + smf’s 2¢ + comments and response By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/oroElV 9/29/11 • The bankruptcy of a one-year-old charter school in West Sacramento has underscored difficulties with state and federal funding of startup schools and raised questions about the State
SCHOOL DISTRICTS REPORTING WIDESPREAD COMPLIANCE WITH WHOOPING COUGH VACCINATIONS
By J.D. Velasco, Staff Writer | San Gabriel Valley Tribune | http://bit.ly/pNPNW7 Wilson High student Kevin Mendoza, 16, gets a Tdap shot during the last day to get a free vaccination at Los Altos High School in Hacienda Heights on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. (Watchara Phomicinda / Staff) Posted: 09/28/2011 04:31:13 PM PDT - Despite some dire predictions earlier this year, school districts in the
GATES FOUNDATION TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCHER SEEMS TO SUPPORT THE ‘STATUS QUO’ + CIRCULAR REASONING AT THE GATES: Education Nation off to a Confusing Start
John Thompson: Gates Foundation Teacher Effectiveness Researcher Seems to Support the 'Status Quo' By Anthony Cody /EdWeek – Living n Dialogue | http://bit.ly/q42prj September 27, 2011 10:48 AM | The National Bureau of Economic Research just published "School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment" by David J. Deming, Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger. Tom
DEASY WARNS L.A. SCHOOL BOARD TO STAY NEUTRAL OVER BIDDING OVER CAMPUSES
-- Howard Blume | LA Times/L.A. NOW | http://lat.ms/puK7Iq September 30, 2011 | 6:36 pm - L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy has cautioned school board members to avoid taking sides over who should control 15 new and 22 low-performing campuses next year. Deasy was responding to complaints that school board member Bennett Kayser is openly backing plans being developed by three groups of district