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Secretaries third union to concede
EAST PROVIDENCE — Their salaries average $33,000 a year, but the city’s school secretaries have agreed to a new contract that forfeits half of their paid sick leave and freezes their wages for two years.
Ackerman: Magnet proposal now dead, was a surprise
Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said yesterday that she did not support changing magnet-school admissions requirements to increase diversity, and declared the proposal dead. ...Text message dispute triggered brutal Fla. beating
AP - The brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl at a Florida middle school was triggered by a text message dispute between the victim and the teenage boy accused punching and stomping on her with steel-toed boots, authorities said Thursday....
What Do You Know About Teen Depression?
Student Opinion | Tell us what you know or have learned about teenage depression, whether from experts or from personal experience. What questions do you still have?...Gibbons’ education task force to meet behind closed doors
Gov. Jim Gibbons declared this week that Nevada’s future education policy will emerge from a blue ribbon task force he created by executive order. But its first meeting today will be held behind closed doors. ...$7.5 million drop in pension tab eases MPS' financial crunch
The financial picture for Milwaukee Public Schools is looking slightly brighter for next school year, enough so that the district now expects it might have to end class-size reduction programs at only three schools, Superintendent William Andrekopoulos said Thursday. ...Francis Fendley, longtime trustee with HISD, dies
3.19.10 - The great-great-grandson of Civil War-era Texas Gov. Francis Lubbock, Fendley was a fourth-generation Houstonian and professional nurseryman. He also acted in stage plays and commercials and was known to burst into song at HISD events....
From Haiti’s ruins to Mass. schools
Now living in the Boston area, the children of families with enough connections and means to find a place for them to recover far from the devastation in Haiti have access to something that has all but vanished in their former country following the quake: an education. ...Zero-tolerance overhaul advances
An overhaul on Georgia’s zero-tolerance policies, the kind of law that Emanuel Jones said he was elected to the Georgia Senate to write, passed his chamber Thursday and now heads to the House. ...
KIPP, union settle Baltimore dispute
KIPP's high-achieving school in Baltimore said it might have to close because reducing the time for instruction, as forced by union demands, meant it could not honor the promises it made to its students and families to prepare every child for college...
Teacher who hung Obama in effigy should go
The teacher at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island who hung President OBama in effigy--apparently in reaction to Obama’s support of the firings--should go. ...
Obama effigy hung at R.I. school with fired teachers
3.19.10 - CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — A teacher at a failing Rhode Island school where he and all his colleagues were fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools....
One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea
3.19.10 - AMERICAN public education, a perennial whipping boy for both the political right and left, is once again making news in ways that show how difficult it will be to cure what ails the nation’s schools. ...
Despite Gains, Charter School Is Told to Close
As New York State moves to shut down an Albany charter school, it is apparent that holding schools themselves accountable is not always so easy, or bloodless, as numbers on a page. ...N.J. aid to schools to be drastically cut
Every school district in New Jersey will see cuts in state aid - some far deeper than local education officials said they were led to expect - according to figures the Christie administration released yesterday. ...District proposes changes in magnet admission rules
Concerned that its top academic schools are not racially and economically diverse enough, Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman is proposing major changes in how students are admitted to them. ...
Student restraint measure stalls
Facing opposition from school administrators and teachers, the prospects for legislation to limit when Wisconsin students could be physically restrained or secluded in time-out rooms appear to be fizzling out in the state capitol. ...Testing scandal ensnarls Agassi principal
The middle school principal at Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy has been placed on administrative leave while state investigators look into allegations that she gave five students additional opportunities to complete a state standardized test....
KCBS’ Margie Shafer Reports
There's always been kind of a circus atmosphere around the deliberations of the Texas State Board of Education on textbook content. In the not-so-recent past there have been fights over including Creationist ideas into science textbooks and watering down the teaching of evolution. The inclusion of David Barton's dubious founding-father quotes and equally-dubious view of American history have also been the subject of Texas debates. Because Texas is the 2nd largest purchaser of books in the country and the largest unifiedbook purchaser (California is the largest purchaser but doesn't buy the same texts en bloc for all it's districts), it exercises enormous influence on what textbook publishers print. Thus, the whole nation has an interest in what Texas does.
