Friday, April 9, 2010

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Panel hears ideas on next S.D. schools chief

Some parents, teachers and others who have been tapped to help craft a want ad of sorts for the next San Diego schools chief know what they don’t want more than anything else.
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Granite unveils teacher Web rules

Granite teachers soon could be required to give their students a cyber cold shoulder. The Salt Lake Valley school district is considering a new social-networking policy that would forbid employees from fraternizing with...
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Charter-school report puts blame on School District

City Controller Alan Butkovitz said Thursday that the Philadelphia School District had failed to monitor 67 charter schools, leaving both it and the taxpayers "extremely vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse." ...
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Butkovitz: Charter schools spending like it's their money

City Controller Alan Butkovitz yesterday blasted the Philadelphia School District's Charter School Office for failing "to monitor charter schools," which spend millions in taxpayers' dollars....
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Florida House passes landmark teacher merit-pay bill

The Florida House passed a landmark teacher merit-pay bill early this morning that aims to put the state at the forefront of a controversial national push to tie teacher compensation to student performance. ...
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Clark County teachers face peer pressure on furloughs

Clark County’s teachers, resisting calls for wage concessions, may now start feeling pressure to buckle from an unlikely source: their colleagues in Washoe County, home of the state’s second-largest teachers association. ...
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Districts Report Grim Outlook as Stimulus Fades

Layoffs, program cuts, and other drastic steps loom as economic-stimulus aid dries up, a survey of school administators finds. ...
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New program to recognize Online Teacher of the Year

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) have teamed up on a new awards program that will recognize an outstanding online teacher for his or her exceptional contributions to virtual... ...
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R.I. Ed. Chief: Failing Schools Need Sweeping Change

Failing schools are a drain on the state's already sluggish economy and require wholesale transformation, state Education Commissioner Deborah Gist told lawmakers. ...
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Ankeny students learn a different kind of writing

Ankeny students learn a different kind of writing First-grade students at Westwood Elementary School in Ankeny have been creating booklets together during a new program called ...
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Deputy uses Taser on students, apparently at their request

A Lake County sheriff's deputy used a Taser on about 30 high school students Thursday morning during a career fair on the playground of Lake County High School in Leadville. ...
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Fighting the corporate sludge

4.9.10 - You might remember ‘Jamal’ from my article on Detroit Public schools, “Corporate Barbarians at the Gate: Wal-Mart internships at Detroit Schools”...
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Jay Mathews: Principal keeps student in AP class she rejected

I can hear some of you mumbling: What is Mathews doing? His nutty campaign for AP and International Baccalaureate and his love of anything to which the word rigor can be attached is the reason why educators push this stuff too hard. Is he finally confessing his sins of overdoing challenging courses? ...
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Teaching the Civil War: Debate still alive

Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s apology for leaving slavery out of a proclamation declaring April as Confederate History Month cannot gloss over the fact that the issue is still alive....
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U.S. Plan Threatens Free-Book Group

4.9.10 - A well-known nonprofit group says it may not survive planned changes to federal funding of literacy programs. ...
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Schoolbooks amended to correct "left leaning" bias in education.

As Al Jazeera's Kimberly Halkett reports, the changes could have a major impact on how history is taught across the US. ...
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Unions pressure Florida's Governor to veto school reform.

Florida wasn't one of the states awarded a Race to the Top education grant for its school reform efforts from the Obama Administration. But the state continues to demonstrate...
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Report: Philly charter schools risk taxpayer money

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An investigation of Philadelphia charter schools has found that questionable financial practices are putting public funds at risk of fraud, waste and abuse....
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States push to pay teachers based on performance

For parents and politicians hungry for better schools, the idea of paying teachers more if their...
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YES, they'll grow: A sweet bond deal for a charter-school system is great news for Houston

YES Prep, a remarkable chain of charter schools in Houston, has shown astounding success at propelling minority and economically disadvantaged kids into college. ...
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