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Charter schools drain money from public schools, towns - Southern New England
Critics: Charter schools drain money from public schools, towns - News, Weather and Classifieds for Southern New England: Critics: Charter schools drain money from public schools, townsNews, Weather and Classifieds for Southern New EnglandPROVIDENCE -The debate about charter schools in Rhode Island heated up with dueling press conferences on Tuesday.Students descended on the State House to rally a
Report: Cost of school vouchers jumps from $16M to $40M
Report: Cost of school vouchers jumps from $16M to $40M: Report: Cost of school vouchers jumps from $16M to $40MThe cost of Indiana’s private school voucher program jumped from $16 million to $40 million during the past school year, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Department of Education.Critics of the voucher program say the report proves that subsidizing private education is co
TEACHER EVALUATIONS: WHERE IS THE RAGE? | Reclaim Reform
TEACHER EVALUATIONS: WHERE IS THE RAGE? | Reclaim Reform: TEACHER EVALUATIONS: WHERE IS THE RAGE?Posted on June 16, 2015by Ken PrevitiRefuse to be a willing victim.There is a point where teachers themselves must stop arguing about some finely worded minutia in their evaluations. The argument had been framed beforehand by people who want career educators fired in order to hire cheaper labor.You wer
Time for Congress to Investigate Bill Gates' Coup | Diane Ravitch
Time for Congress to Investigate Bill Gates' Coup | Diane Ravitch: Time for Congress to Investigate Bill Gates' CoupThe story about Bill Gates' swift and silent takeover of American education is startling. His role and the role of the U.S. Department of Education in drafting and imposing the Common Core standards on almost every state should be investigated by Congress.The idea that the richest ma
Evers: Under proposed state budget WI will have "Charter School CZARS" accountable to nobody : blue cheddar
Evers: Under proposed state budget WI will have "Charter School CZARS" accountable to nobody : blue cheddar: Evers: Under proposed state budget WI will have "Charter School CZARS" accountable to nobodySupt. Tony Evers makes some remarkable comments at about the 23:20 mark in this June 1st interview (which I wish I had seen earlier). Evers discusses a radical proposed change mad
How Should Schools Help Teach Democracy? - Bridging Differences - Education Week
How Should Schools Help Teach Democracy? - Bridging Differences - Education Week: How Should Schools Help Teach Democracy? Today Deborah Meier and Joe Nathan discuss how schools can teach students about democracy. Deborah begins and Joe responds.Dear Joe,As I've noted many times elsewhere, democracy is hard to define for good reasons. Its definition is, at its best, so deeply contextual and never
Charter Program Expansion Looms Despite Probes into Mismanagement and Closed Schools | PR Watch
Charter Program Expansion Looms Despite Probes into Mismanagement and Closed Schools | PR Watch: Charter Program Expansion Looms Despite Probes into Mismanagement and Closed Schools As Congress stands poised to increase funding for the quarter-billion-dollar-a-year federal Charter Schools Program by a whopping 48 percent, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has uncovered that the U.S. Departm
Wisconsin's Attack on Freedom. | BustED Pencils
Wisconsin's Attack on Freedom. | BustED Pencils: Wisconsin's Attack on Freedom.Can it get any worse in Wisconsin? I guess the answer to that question is it can always get worse. I mean at this point we’re only restricting local taxpayers’ freedom to self govern their community schools. Politicians are only restricting citizens’ freedom to new knowledge? Corporations are only restricting academ
Setting the record straight on Adamowski and Hartford - Wait What?
Setting the record straight on Adamowski and Hartford - Wait What?: Setting the record straight on Adamowski and Hartford Robert Cotto Jr. is a member of the Hartford Board of Education. He is also a leading academic expert on education policy in Connecticut. His articles have appeared in numerous publications and his writing and work can be regularly found in the Hartford Courant, CT Mirror and
What Would a Sanders Administration Do on K-12 Education?
What Would a Sanders Administration Do on K-12 Education?: What Would a Sanders Administration Do on K-12 Education?residential candidate Bernie Sanders has excited his base with some bold ideas surrounding higher education. He’s said college should be a right, that public universities should have free tuition, and that public universities should employ tenured or tenure-track faculty for at least
CORPORATE DREAM TEAM: PT Sac Mayor Kevin Johnson Praises...Ben Carson? - Breitbart
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson Praises...Ben Carson? - Breitbart: SACRAMENTO MAYOR KEVIN JOHNSON PRAISES…BEN CARSON?Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a Democrat who has praised Barack Obama for his efforts to “improve policing” in America and lauded him by saying “he’s hip, he’s a smooth president,” decided to flatter a GOP candidate for president on Monday, praising Ben Carson in Sacramento at a ga
The One About Data, Numbers and Truth - Badass Teachers Association
Badass Teachers Association: The One About Data, Numbers and TruthBy: Dr. Mitchell RobinsonOriginally posted on his blog http://www.mitchellrobinson.net/2015/06/13/the-one-about-data-numbers-and-truth/Much has been made by the corporate reform community about how poorly American students do on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests. According to the Organisation for Econom
What's the Real Harm in the Wasting of Post-Test Time? This Week In Education: Thompson:
This Week In Education: Thompson: What's the Real Harm in the Wasting of Post-Test Time?: Thompson: What's the Real Harm in the Wasting of Post-Test Time?In Do Lazy June Days Include Too Many Parties and Movies?, The Washington Post's Jay Mathews says that June 1 is "the traditional beginning of parental complaints about how little work is done as the school year nears an end." He cites
Parents wishes be damned says the House » Missouri Education Watchdog
Parents wishes be damned says the House » Missouri Education Watchdog: Parents wishes be damned says the HouseThe Student Success Act, which was passed by the House in 2013, but was removed from a vote this past February due to grassroots parental opposition, will come before the House again tomorrow, unchanged from the February version. House Education Chairman John Klein (R-CA) said the problem
Meet the New Common Core - The New York Times
Meet the New Common Core - The New York Times: Meet the New Common CoreMADISON, Wis. — HATE the Common Core? You’re not alone. The national reading and math standards, set up by a bipartisan consortium of state governors, have turned into a political lightning rod for a coalition of angry parents and education activists. The math component has generated special peevishness. The comedian Louis C.K.
Schools get defensive when researchers ask about oppressing of youth of color
Schools get defensive when researchers ask about oppressing of youth of color: Schools get defensive when researchers ask about oppressing of youth of colorThat students of color bear the brunt of the zero tolerance discipline policies in schools has been well-established. What is not so well known is that some school administrations are actually complicit in this act of racial disciplining.Nation
An Upcoming Frenzy in Education | My Island View
An Upcoming Frenzy in Education | My Island View: An Upcoming Frenzy in EducationIf educators can count on one sure-fired outcome of the largest national education conference in America, it is the information feeding frenzy that accompanies it. Each year that ISTE holds its Annual Conference with 20+ thousand attendees social media lights up all over the world with exchanges of information between
It’s Raining Meatballs | EduShyster
It’s Raining Meatballs | EduShyster: It’s Raining MeatballsWhat lessons can we fail to learn from Sweden’s disastrous school choice disaster?Reader: it seems like only yesteryear that you and I were off to Sweden together to tour the wonders of that country’s experiment with skola privatisering, otherwise known as *the magic of the market.* So what happened since we boarded our return flight aboar
Ohio Charter Schools: A National Laughing Stock | Diane Ravitch's blog
Ohio Charter Schools: A National Laughing Stock | Diane Ravitch's blog: Ohio Charter Schools: A National Laughing StockJust when I think the charter scandals in Ohio can’t possibly get worse, they do. The State Auditor, a Republican named Dave Yost, reported that a charter owner had inflated enrollment and overcharged the state by $1,3 million.“General Chappie James Leadership Academy in Dayton re
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Gates $2.3B driving Common Core as a 'de facto and de jure national school curriculum'
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Gates $2.3B driving Common Core as a 'de facto and de jure national school curriculum': Gates $2.3B driving Common Core as a 'de facto and de jure national school curriculum'The new curriculum driven into law by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the Common Core Standards, is a product of massive spending on an unprecedented historical level by Bill Gates.Gueri
Refresher: What's in the Senate ESEA Rewrite, and Amendments to Watch For - Politics K-12 - Education Week
Refresher: What's in the Senate ESEA Rewrite, and Amendments to Watch For - Politics K-12 - Education Week: Refresher: What's in the Senate ESEA Rewrite, and Amendments to Watch ForAs the U.S. Senate braces for debate on a bipartisan reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—which could get underway as early as Thursday—we thought it would be a good idea to freshen up on what's
Regents make amendments to highly criticized teacher evaluation scheme - Times Union
Regents make amendments to highly criticized teacher evaluation scheme - Times Union: Regents make amendments to highly criticized teacher evaluation scheme The state Board of Regents on Monday agreed to amend the state's controversial new teacher evaluation system by allowing what could be a yearlong delay in implementation, and placing less emphasis on student test score results when it comes to
Nebraska Loves Public Schools - Documentary provides balanced understanding of charter schools
Documentary provides balanced understanding of charter schools: Documentary provides balanced understanding of charter schools Nebraska Loves Public Schools | Click Here to Get to know us…A documentary dealing with education reform will be held in the Keene Memorial Library’s East Annex Building at 4 p.m. Thursday.Presented by the film-making group Nebraska Loves Public Schools, the documentary “C
Charter Schools In Perspective - A Guide to Research
In Perspective - A Guide to Research:Charter Schools In PerspectiveA joint project of the Spencer Foundation and Public AgendaIn Perspective is an effort to enlighten and improve the conversation about charter schools in the United States.Communities across the country are grappling with different approaches to improving their schools. Introducing or expanding charter schools is one of the approac
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Kevin Johnson welcomes GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson | The Sacramento Bee
Kevin Johnson welcomes GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson | The Sacramento Bee: Kevin Johnson welcomes GOP presidential candidate Ben CarsonRepublican Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon and unconventional presidential candidate, has no doubt received some glowing receptions during his career.But it’s unlikely he expected such a warm welcome from Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a Democrat who o
Wisconsin Public Education Network ALERT : blue cheddar
Wisconsin Public Education Network ALERT : blue cheddar: Wisconsin Public Education Network ALERTby blue cheddar • June 16, 2015Please review this important alert from the Wisconsin Public Education Network and take action.The deadline to gain additional co-sponsors is Friday.THANK YOU.————————————————-Two education bills are circulating for co-sponsorship that deserve support from every legislato
Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 6/15/15
SPECIAL NITE CAP CORPORATE ED REFORMTake Me To Church [On TFA, #BlackLivesMatter, and Education] | The Jose VilsonTake Me To Church [On TFA, #BlackLivesMatter, and Education] | The Jose Vilson: Take Me To Church [On TFA, #BlackLivesMatter, and Education]Whenever conservative pundit Michelle Malkin’s name comes up, you know it’s going to be a bloodbath of lies and obfuscation.Her latest article, re
