Monday, April 5, 2010

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Teacher bill needs improvements

The Florida House is poised to ram through sweeping changes to employment rules for public school teachers this week without listening to critics or allowing any improvements to the legislation. The bill (SB 6),
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Math lessons in Mandarin? Local schools go global

In a growing number of Seattle-area classrooms, students spend half their school day immersed in a language other than English. One example is Beacon Hill International School in Seattle, where kindergartners can study in Spanish or Mandarin Chinese. ...
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Report cites questionable charter-school practices

One Philadelphia charter-school operator runs a private parking lot on the side. Another rents out apartments and collects the rent at his school. Yet another rents property to herself, signing her lease as both tenant and landlord. ...
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Penn neighborhood blooms around a top school

The Yeows, Elizabeth and Emmanuel, both 37 and transplants from Southern California by way of the Washington suburbs, had their hearts set on a Center City lifestyle after Emmanuel, a federal employee, was transferred here last summer....
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East Providence schools deficit may reach $1 million as costs mushroom

EAST PROVIDENCE — School officials failed to track the expenses of up to 20 out-of-district special-education students, and the mistake created a deficit for the last fiscal year. ...
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New standard makes whiteboard content more accessible

In what educators and vendors are calling a giant step forward in education technology, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) recently announced that all major interactive whiteboard vendors have agreed to make their educational content available... ...
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New York schools brace for layoffs

School districts across New York are anticipating larger class sizes, fewer extracurricular activities and electives, and major layoffs. ...
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Teachers balk, leave state union

Teachers in a Marion County school district have become the first in Iowa to split from the state's largest teachers union. ...
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Tense time for students

After months of sifting through college catalogs and sweating out essays, the 12 seniors The Enquirer is following through the college admission process are three weeks from locking in on their schools. ...
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Judge says threats to confiscate children may be coercion

An Arizona homeschool family's constitutional lawsuit against authorities – including sheriff's deputies, social service workers and even an assistant attorney general – has been advanced by a judge who ruled that a threat to take the family's children into custody could have been perceived as coercion. ...
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Tutoring benefits seniors' health, students' skills

Experience Corps is a program operating in 22 cities nationwide that trains volunteers over 55 to......
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Healthy, and Safe, School Lunches

A Senate bill would set much-needed nutritional standards for the more than 30 million lunches served each school day to children across the country. ...
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School districts floating bond, tax rate issues

Construction, raises and technology are key goals for nine jurisdictions....
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Where's superman for the middle class?

4.4.10 - Guggenheim's film exposes the immense flaws in America's public school system and follows the lives of a handful of parents and their children who struggle to find alternative routes to a better education....
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Anti-bullying efforts show some progress

Even before the January suicide of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Massachusetts girl who had been tormented by classmates, parents in San Diego County feared for the lives of their bullied children...
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Florida's merit-pay plan for teachers prompts debate

A measure moving through the Legislature would make performance paramount in deciding a teacher's pay raise....
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Chinese government's funding of Southland school's language program fuels controversy

Chinese government's funding of Southland school's language program fuels controversy A Hacienda Heights school will get free materials -- books, a laptop, playing cards -- from the Confucius Classroom language program. ...
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Dallas magnet schools top Houston group's rankings

llas ISD's magnet campuses again dominate a list of the best public high schools in Texas, while several of the city's large comprehensive high schools rank at the bottom....
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Keeping students engaged, motivated during middle-school years

What to do when kids stop caring about school. ...
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Utah Parents Challenge 'Democracy' in School's Motto

A group of Utah County parents is challenging a school district's use of the word democracy in its mission statement, saying it's historically inaccurate and an endorsement of socialist ideas. ...
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