NEW OVERSEER FOR CHARTERS URGED: State board too consumed by charter petitions By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/eY6GyP Posted on 12/02/10 • Charter schools have become a time sink for the State Board of Education, with a third of its time spent dealing with schools serving 5 percent of California’s students. ...
CTA CITES QEIA’s BIG IMPACT: Is it teacher leadership or smaller classes? By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/exHvg6 12/01/10 • Over the past three years, API scores have increased significantly for the bottom 20 percent of California schools, despite ongoing budget cuts. But they’ve risen even higher overall ...
CONGRESS SENDS SCHOOL NUTRITION BILL TO OBAMA By The Associated Press | http://bit.ly/fTc0Hb December 2, 2010 – Washington - More children would eat lunches and dinners at school under legislation passed Thursday by the House and sent to the president, part of first lady Michelle Obama's campaign to ...
STUDY LOOKS AT TURNOVER IN CHARTER PRINCIPALS: "You’re Leaving? Sustainability and Succession in Charter Schools" Report Roundup by By Mary Ann Zehr in Ed Week | http://bit.ly/gG2NO9 December 1, 2010 -- Seventy-one percent of charter school leaders say they plan to leave their schools within five years, raising questions about the stability of the culture of ...
CHARTER SCHOOLS AND OTHERS SUBMIT PLANS FOR CONTROL OF NEW AND STRUGGLING L.A. SCHOOLS Howard Blume in LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/gyoPBY December 2, 2010 | 2:11 pm - Four dozen groups will vie for control of 10 new campuses and three existing schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The applications, which were due ...
