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Blog Articles for S.3206: Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

Blog Articles for S.3206: Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

S.3206 - Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010

A bill to establish an Education Jobs Fund. view all titles (2)


Here's Another $23 Billion Bailout That You May Have Missed This Week
S. 3206, definite Keep Our Educators Working Act, H.R. 2847, definite Jobs 4 Main Street Act, & H.R. 4812, definite Local Jobs 4 America Act, each call 4 $23 billion towards inside (of) emergency support inthe direction -of preserve ...
05/15/10
Awesome: Another $23 Billion of Your Money to be Redistributed to ...
S. 3206, the Keep Our Educators Working Act, H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act, and H.R. 4812, the Local Jobs for America Act, each call for $23 billion in emergency support to preserve education jobs modeled after the State ...
05/14/10
Keeping America's Teachers in the Classroom | Obama Chronicles
S. 3206, the Keep Our Educators Working Act, H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act, and H.R. 4812, the Local Jobs for America Act, each call for $23 billion in emergency support to preserve education jobs modeled after the State ...
05/13/10
Big Education Ape: Obama Administration Supports Emergency Funding ...
S. 3206, the Keep Our Educators Working Act, H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act, and H.R. 4812, the Local Jobs for America Act, each call for $23 billion in emergency support to preserve education jobs modeled after the State ...
05/13/10
21st Century Democrats Blog: Harkin Education Bill
Recognizing the danger of losing tens of thousands of trained teachers, 21st Century Democrats Co-founder SenatorTom Harkin (D-IA) has introduced a bill entitled "Keep Our Educators Working Act" (S. 3206). When announcing the bill, ...
05/12/10
NSBA's Letter to the U.S. Senate
May 12, 2010 - Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010 (S. 3206)
05/10/10
Government Relations Legislative Update: Federal Update for May 10
The Keep Our Educators Working Act (S. 3206) would support compensation, benefits, and other expenses needed to retain existing employees and hire new ones at public educational institutions. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has ...
05/09/10
Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Action NOW !
Call, email, or fax the following places and urge them to support and pass, quickly, the Keep Our Educators Working Act (S.3206). Urge Your Senator to cosponsor the Keep Our Educators Working Act and to push for its immediate passage. ...
05/09/10
Why boards butt heads over budgets | Richmond Times-Dispatch
People may want to google H.R.4812 and S.3206 about funding and teacher dedicated money.Interesting reading. Flag Comment Posted by Skeller85 on May 10, 2010 at 11:00 pm. I heard from some folks today that schools are starting to get ...

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Stumbling blocks remain for newly minted teachers, career-switchers Hechinger Report | News Archive

Hechinger Report | News Archive

Stumbling blocks remain for newly minted teachers, career-switchers

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By Alexandra Moses

Ana Arroyo-Montano spent the first year in front of her class fearing she’d be fired.

After training in the Boston Teacher Residency program, the business major with five years’ experience in financial aid services wasn’t prepared for a room of kindergartners who didn’t speak English.

“Here I had all these kids and they’re lagging behind all the general-ed kids, and I’m wondering if it’s me,” she says. “José can’t count in English yet. Is that because it’s developmental? Is it because he doesn’t understand a word I’m saying?”

David Johnson (center) switched careers to become a teacher in Indiana (Photographer: Todd Moore, courtesy University of Indianapolis)

Career-changers like Arroyo-Montano are increasingly entering classrooms across the country. Their numbers have doubled over the last 20 years, in part due to alternative certification programs that welcome professionals from diverse backgrounds. There’s a new push to expand these pathways as states scramble to increase their chances of winning second-round money in President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top competition, which is

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Analysis: Gov. key figure in Kan. tax increase - Boston.com

Analysis: Gov. key figure in Kan. tax increase - Boston.com

Analysis: Gov. key figure in Kan. tax increase

By John Hanna
AP Political Writer / May 17, 2010
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TOPEKA, Kan.—Gov. Mark Parkinson deserves the biggest share of the credit -- or the blame -- when Kansas increases its sales tax in July to shore up its next budget.
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The Democratic governor pushed the Republican-controlled Legislature to raise taxes to avoid cuts in aid to public schools and other government programs. Consumers will pay a penny more for each dollar they spend at a store, hotel or restaurant.
Parkinson built his credibility as a budget-cutter before legislators opened their annual session, allowing him to argue the state had done enough trimming. Then, he did an excellent job of framing the debate.
He had allies, of course. Democratic and moderate Republican legislators forged alliances in both chambers, outmaneuvering conservative GOP leaders in the House. Educators and social service advocates kept up the pressure on legislators.
But Parkinson was the key player from the Legislature's opening on Jan. 11 through its last day exactly four months later. The $13.7 billion budget for the

SC GOP gov hopefuls back school choice, mergers

by Seanna Adcox, Associated Press Writer
The four Republican candidates running to replace South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford are promoting tax changes, school choice, teacher bonuses and district consolidation as ways to improve public education in the state.

Should we ask if Supreme Court nominee is gay?

by Martha Irvine, AP National Writer
She plays softball. Huge hint, right? She's 50, single and has a short haircut. Yup, definitely a lesbian.

An uplifting chorus

by Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist
Choir practice starts early at the Boston Renaissance Charter School — at 7:25 a.m., to be precise, when a group of bleary-eyed students begin taking the no-nonsense direction of Evelyn Lee-Jones.
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The Oil Spill And Our Educated Citizenry - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.


The Oil Spill And Our Educated Citizenry



"To educate a man in mind and not in moral is is
to educate a menace to society."
- Teddy Roosevelt

Is Our Competitive Educational System
Inadvertently Fueling A Culture Promoting
Shortcuts, Shrewdness, Egotism & An Every-Person-For-Themselves Behavior?


By C.J. Westerberg


One can't help but make larger connections to the enormity of events unfolding in the Gulf. The environment, the economics, the immorality of those in a position to make the decisions that led to this debacle - all create a narrative beyond the scope of comprehension.


As yet another blow to our collective trust regarding "those in charge", it makes one think about the role of education, the power wielded by those who have/had access to great education, and to question whether we have, as a society, conveniently "forgotten" the responsibilities that are inextricably bound with the gift of education. While we are a culture that celebrates
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Live From RI: "I Love It When a Plan Comes Together" :: Frederick M. Hess

Live From RI: "I Love It When a Plan Comes Together" :: Frederick M. Hess

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Live From RI: "I Love It When a Plan Comes Together"

by Frederick M. Hess • May 17, 2010 at 11:01 am
Cross-posted from Education Week

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Big news yesterday out of Rhode Island's Central Falls--the city where Superintendent Fran Gallo dusted off the dreaded "turnaround" bomb earlier this year--as the Central Falls Teachers' Union folded and acceded to Gallo's demands. In return, Gallo backed off the mass firing she'd launched. Some observers might regard Gallo's move as a disappointing reversion to powder puff school management, especially after reading the weak-kneed press release stuffed with promises that all the union ever wanted is "what is best for our students." But such concerns are misplaced. Gallo's play shows how stiff-spined management is supposed to work--by forcing unions and other claimants to come to their senses.

In February, Gallo had fired every teacher at Central Falls High School after teachers at the school refused to get on board with her efforts to transform the poorly performing school. This was after they had embraced the transformation model because it would protect their jobs, so long as there weren't any transformational

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The Top 20 Education Blogs | Intercepts

The Top 20 Education Blogs | Intercepts

The Top 20 Education Blogs

by Mike Antonucci
Technorati ranks more than 100,000 blogs with “authority” calculations “based on a site’s linking behavior, categorization and other associated data over a short, finite period of time.” I don’t know what all that means, but it allows for comparison of blogs across and within all categories. The site doesn’t have an “education” category, so it requires going through the comprehensive listing to pick them out one at a time.
The rankings are updated once a day, but here are the top 20 education blogs as of May 16, with their Technorati authority figures (1000 is the highest possible score):
1) Joanne Jacobs – 610
2) The Quick and the Ed – 601
3) Gotham Schools – 584
4) Education Experts (National Journal) – 576
5) Flypaper – 572
6) Curriculum Matters (Education Week) – 562
7) Eduwonk – 556
8) Cool Cat Teacher Blog – 553
9) Get Schooled (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) – 550
10) Jay P. Greene’s Blog – 527
(tie) Intercepts – 527
12) This Week in Education – 526
13) The School Law Blog (Education Week) – 518
(tie) Education Technology – ICT in Education – 518
15) Kitchen Table Math, The Sequel – 516
16) Why Homeschool – 515
17) Homeschool Creations – 513
18) Dangerously Irrelevant – 507
(tie) Educational Boarding School – 507
20) EdTechPost – 497
Jay Mathews wrote about the latest Brookings Institution report on education journalism. He’s optimistic, but he states something important for those who write about education.
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More of This, Please � Chalkdust101


Chalkdust 101


More of This, Please � Chalkdust101

More of This, Please

by pjhiggins
I read Eric Langhorst’s blog, I’ll confess, not for the great history links he sends out, but for ideas about how I would run my my own classroom. In one of his latest posts/podcasts, Eric talks about how his class skyped in author Pat Hughes to talk about her work (and it magically fit right into what they were studying–imagine the serendipity!). If you know how to use skype, you understand how simple and easy it is to use. My mother uses it. My kids can almost use it now. It’s simple to pick up. After our impromptu conference with Shelly Blake-Plock last week, I began thinking about why we don’t bring others into our classrooms this way more often. It’s not all that crazy to plan–anytime I have done one, it originated from an idea, that led to an email, that became a brainstorm for a date and time, and then some quick tech set-up. Voila. Instant access to smarter, more interesting people (choose your interviews wisely). The next level then becomes something like this once you’ve become more established:This
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