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Audit finds closed Kansas City charter was overpaid $4.3M | KSL.com
Audit finds closed Kansas City charter was overpaid $4.3M | KSL.com: Audit finds closed Kansas City charter was overpaid $4.3MKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City charter school was overpaid at least $4.3 million in the two years before it closed because administrators falsified and inflated student attendance, according to a state audit released Friday.State Auditor Nicole Galloway said that Hop
Sign our Petition: Tell the U.S. Senate to say NO to ESEA Reauthorization - UNITED OPT OUT
Sign our Petition: Tell the U.S. Senate to say NO to ESEA Reauthorization - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform: Sign our Petition: Tell the U.S. Senate to say NO to ESEA ReauthorizationSign our petition today at change.org.It states:Since 2002 when No Child Left Behind became law, students, parents, and teachers have been subjected to a national education policy written
CURMUDGUCATION: PA: Tenure Attack Renewed
CURMUDGUCATION: PA: Tenure Attack Renewed: PA: Tenure Attack RenewedHB 805 -- a bill to #protectexcellentteachers -- just passed the Senate Education Committee by a vote of 6-3. #HB805 #PAbudget— StudentsFirst in PA (@PAStudentsFirst) December 4, 2015And while the latest round budget attempts was stirring up dust, that's about as much attention as anyone was paying this week when the Pennsylvania
Shhhh … Connecticut. It’s a secret budget deal … Don’t talk about it. - Wait What?
Shhhh … Connecticut. It’s a secret budget deal … Don’t talk about it. - Wait What?: Shhhh … Connecticut. It’s a secret budget deal … Don’t talk about it.Last summer the Connecticut General Assembly adopted, and Governor Dannel Malloy signed into law, a new state budget that policymakers knew, or should have known, wasn’t remotely balanced.A few weeks later the Malloy administration begrudgingly ad
More trouble for Rahm Emanuel: Chicago teachers to vote on strike authorization - The Washington Post
More trouble for Rahm Emanuel: Chicago teachers to vote on strike authorization - The Washington Post: More trouble for Rahm Emanuel: Chicago teachers to vote on strike authorizationChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is in hot water over his handling of a case involving the fatal shooting by a white police officer of a black teenager last year. Graphic video of the October 2014 shooting, kept secret until
The Challenges of Mark Zuckerberg's Hope to Eradicate Poverty - The Atlantic
The Challenges of Mark Zuckerberg's Hope to Eradicate Poverty - The Atlantic: The Shortcomings of Billionaire PhilanthropyWealthy moguls have historically thwarted efforts to eradicate poverty despite their contributions. Will Mark Zuckerberg’s newly announced initiative suffer from the same pattern?The Internet erupted this week when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, publ
Mark Zuckerberg Is Betting Tech Can Address Educational Equity. Is It That Simple? : NPR Ed : NPR
Mark Zuckerberg Is Betting Tech Can Address Educational Equity. Is It That Simple? : NPR Ed : NPR: Mark Zuckerberg Is Betting Tech Can Address Educational Equity. Is It That Simple?As I'm sure you've heard by now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, used the occasion of their daughter's birth to announce they'll be investing nearly all their fortune, some $45 billion, in
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Wild Conjecture about Charter Schools as ALEs
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Wild Conjecture about Charter Schools as ALEs: Wild Conjecture about Charter Schools as ALEsWe don't really know how it would work if an urban charter school in Western Washington became an We don't really know how it would work if an urban charter school in Western Washington became an Alternative Learning Experience program of a rural school district in Eastern W
Judge says charter group cannot interfere with unionization efforts - LA Times
Judge says charter group cannot interfere with unionization efforts - LA Times: Judge says charter group cannot interfere with unionization effortsA Los Angeles Superior Court judge this week issued a preliminary injunction barring administrators at the city’s largest charter group from hampering efforts to unionize its teachers.The order is the latest action in a nine-month dispute between Allian
CURMUDGUCATION: ESSA Will Not Solve Anything
CURMUDGUCATION: ESSA Will Not Solve Anything: ESSA Will Not Solve AnythingIt's not that I don't appreciate the good parts or hate the bad parts. I'm not delighted to see social impact bonds tossed into the mix, nor am I pleased to see the doors opened here and there for performance based education. I take a bit of pleasure in seeing the ways in which the bill makes extra effort to spank the secret
Newark activists to feds: Help us achieve genuine community schools | Bob Braun's Ledger
Newark activists to feds: Help us achieve genuine community schools | Bob Braun's Ledger: Newark activists to feds: Help us achieve genuine community schoolsJust days after state-imposed schools superintendent Christopher Cerf and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka announced a joint, top-down program with the holders of what’s left of Mark Zuckerberg’s money to develop “community” schools in the city’s South
Wendy Lecker: Leaving math standards to politicians doesn’t add up - StamfordAdvocate
Wendy Lecker: Leaving math standards to politicians doesn’t add up - StamfordAdvocate: Wendy Lecker: Leaving math standards to politicians doesn’t add upAt parents’ night this fall, a high school math teacher I know begged parents to teach their children long division “the old-fashioned way.” She explained that the new way students had learned long division impedes their ability to understand alge
All Children Are Creative - Living in Dialogue
All Children Are Creative - Living in Dialogue: All Children Are Creative This is the third in a series of blog posts focused on the value of art in our lives, and the role art can play in resisting the test and punish model of education. See the intro and links to other posts in the series here.By Clyde Gaw.Eight year-old Frank helps five of his classmates select materials for a large floor scul
The disturbing provisions about teacher preparation in No Child Left Behind rewrite - The Washington Post
The disturbing provisions about teacher preparation in No Child Left Behind rewrite - The Washington Post: The disturbing provisions about teacher preparation in No Child Left Behind rewriteThere has been loud applause in the education world for the new Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to No Child Left Behind that has passed the House and is expected to become federal law soon. It has bee
Why Should We Trust Tech Billionaires Like Mark Zuckerberg With the Future of Education? - Yahoo News
Why Should We Trust Tech Billionaires Like Mark Zuckerberg With the Future of Education? - Yahoo News: Why Should We Trust Tech Billionaires Like Mark Zuckerberg With the Future of Education?The "Pass the Mic" series showcases voices, perspectives and ideas that spark interesting conversations. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Rupert Murdoch, and now Mark Zuckerberg have all announc
Getting Cored: It’s official: US schools are teaching less fiction
It’s official: US schools are teaching less fiction - Quartz: Getting Cored: It’s official: US schools are teaching less fictionKids love stories. Teachers love reading and teaching stories to students. But tough new curriculum standards in the US mean fiction, the primary way teachers teach reading, is falling out of favor in the classroom.Tom Loveless, a researcher with the Brookings Institution
Washington Charter Schools Find Another Source Of Public Money | KUOW News and Information
Washington Charter Schools Find Another Source Of Public Money | KUOW News and Information: Washington Charter Schools Find Another Source Of Public MoneyThe Charter School Approval Flea Flicker Washington state’s charter schools are about to lose state funding, so they’re exploring an option that might allow them to stay open.Charter schools that could find host public school districts could cont
Charter schools start last-minute radio campaign to avoid bad grades for report cards and sponsor evaluations | cleveland.com
Charter schools start last-minute radio campaign to avoid bad grades for report cards and sponsor evaluations | cleveland.com: Charter schools start last-minute radio campaign to avoid bad grades for report cards and sponsor evaluationsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- Some charter schools have started a radio ad campaign to renew their call for "immediate" changes to state report cards that would boost
School Voucher Proponents ask U.S. Supreme Court to Prohibit “No Aid to Religion” Protections | Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty
School Voucher Proponents ask U.S. Supreme Court to Prohibit “No Aid to Religion” Protections | Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty: School Voucher Proponents ask U.S. Supreme Court to Prohibit “No Aid to Religion” ProtectionsAdvocates of school vouchers are asking the United States Supreme Court to hold that provisions of state constitutions that prohibit public funds from aiding religi
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The Rats Are Jumping Ship: Captain Rahm Emanuel Is Still Captain | Reclaim Reform
The Rats Are Jumping Ship: Captain Rahm Emanuel Is Still Captain | Reclaim Reform: The Rats Are Jumping Ship: Captain Rahm Emanuel Is Still CaptainMayor Rahm Emanuel may take the entire Democratic Party with him. As Captain Rahm of the appointed school board, wealthy cronies all, Rahm cannot avoid facing yet another corruption laden scandal such as his Chicago Police-As-Killers cover up.Yet, his p
Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 12/4/15
CORPORATE ED REFORM Peg with Pen: TS Gold - A Child's Report CardPeg with Pen: TS Gold - A Child's Report Card: A Child's Report CardI have written two previous blogs on Teaching Strategies Gold, an assessment that is used to assess children from birth through third grade. My previous blogs explained the teacher's perspective in regard to entering the data (literally thousands of data points per c
