Student: How I know trainees aren’t highly qualified teachers
This was written by Candice Johnson, a member of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE, and a student at California State University, Los Angeles. Johnson is also a plaintiff in Renee v. Duncan, a legal challenge to the U.S. Department of Education regulation that permits intern-teachers to be labeled highly qualified and concentrated in poor and minority schools. A version of this was initially published byEducation Week. and has special resonance now as a key Senate committee this week is tackling a bill that would rewrite No Child Left Behind, formally known as the Elementary and Secondary School Act, and includes controversial language defining highly qualified teachers.
Read full article >>What tea party defeat in Wake County means for schools
This was written by Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a nonprofit public policy research organization, writes about education, equal opportunity and civil rights. This appeared on the foundation’s blog.
By Richard D. Kahlenberg
School board elections in Wake County (Raleigh) North Carolina delivered an important victory for proponents of integration last week as Democrats swept four of five contested school board seats and led substantially in a fifth race headed for a runoff. Most importantly, board chairman Ron Margiotta, who had led the effort to dismantle a nationally acclaimed socioeconomic school integration plan in North Carolina’s largest school district, was defeated, denying conservatives a majority on the nine-member school board.
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