Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Education Week: Race to Top Now Faces Acid Test
Education Week: Race to Top Now Faces Acid Test
Race to Top Now Faces Acid Test
Winners Brace for Challenge of Putting $4 Billion to Use
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With the conclusion of the second round of the federal Race to the Top competition, states across the country—winners and losers alike—are vowing to move forward with ambitious plans to reshape teacher-evaluation systems, fix struggling schools, revamp antiquated data systems, and make other changes aimed at raising student achievement.
Yet predicting the long-term impact of those proposals is difficult. States will attempt to make complicated and controversial policy changes, in some cases with uncertain levels of support from powerful interest groups.
Nine states and the District of Columbia were named winners in the second round of the competition last week, and they will receive a combined $3.4 billion in federal funding.
Education Jobs Fund | U.S. Department of Education
Education Jobs Fund | U.S. Department of EducationEducation Jobs Fund
Education Jobs Fund
AUGUST 30, 2010
Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, and South Dakota Will Receive Funds to Support Education Jobs
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Illinois will receive $415.4 million, Kansas will receive $92.5 million, Nevada will receive $83.1 million, and South Dakota will receive $26.3 million to support education jobs.
AUGUST 27, 2010California to Receive $1.2 Billion to Support Education Jobs
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that California will receive $1.2 billion to support education jobs.
AUGUST 13, 2010Application, Guidance Provided to States for $10 Billion Education Jobs Fund
Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that the application and guidance for states under the $10 billion Education Jobs Fund Program have been sent to governors and made available on the Education Department’s Web site.
Schundler firing raises questions | Politics | Atlantic County, NJ
Schundler firing raises questions | Politics | Atlantic County, NJ
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| Written by NORM COHEN |
| Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:28 |
Last week Gov. Chris Christie fired state Education Commissioner Bret Schundler for misleading him when reporting how it was that New Jersey lost $400 million in "Race to the Top" federal education funding. Schundler continues to protest that he reported the facts accurately to the governor and did not mislead him. A number of interesting issues have come out of this clerical error that cost New Jersey $400 million. First, there is the mystery of the missing data, supposedly one or two pages out of a thousand. The data was in the report on May 26, according to Schundler, but then was lost, perhaps during the final fact-checking process, and the wrong data appears to have been substituted for the correct data. Didn't someone print out an extra copy before the application was given to the fact checkers? If this is the accurate timeline, then someone else needs to be fired besides Schundler, preferably the person or persons that substituted the incorrect data. I found it interesting that, according to news reports, Schundler asked to be fired rather than resign so that he could collect unemployment compensation. Schundler said he has a mortgage and a daughter entering college and needs the money until he can find a new job. There is nothing wrong with a person wanting unemployment compensation while they look for a new job. What is interesting is that this request came from a conservative Republican, and it is conservative Republicans that oppose unemployment compensation because it is an entitlement, and because it makes people lazy. Yet here is a conservative Republican being very open |
Mercury News editorial: Some last minute musts for the state Legislature - San Jose Mercury News
Mercury News editorial: Some last minute musts for the state Legislature - San Jose Mercury News
Mercury News editorial: Some last minute musts for the state Legislature
Posted: 08/31/2010 12:01:00 AM PDT
It's the last day of the legislative session, when lawmakers do the equivalent of a college student's cramming at the close of a semester. Of course, in Sacramento there's an additional challenge: lobbyists laying siege to the Legislature to make sure their clients' interests, if not the public's, are well served.
Spilling over into this final day are a few especially important bills that are vulnerable to special interests. One is SB 1285, which would protect schools in low-income and minority neighborhoods from losing an unfair proportion of teachers when layoffs hit. The California Teachers Association, which holds particular sway in the Assembly, is intent on killing it.
Assembly leaders gutted the bill earlier this month, making it essentially an advisory measure. Before passing it, the Assembly rules committee must reinsert the language requiring parity. It should then be passed by the Senate
The Case for Building New Public Universities � The Quick and the Ed
The Case for Building New Public Universities � The Quick and the Ed
The Case for Building New Public Universities
Earlier this year I flew to Rochester, Minnesota, where I learned how fast heat will depart from the human body if you’re dumb enough to travel north of the 44th parallel in winter without proper insulation. (Answer: very.) I also visited the new branch campus of the University of Minnesota and wrote an article about it for the new issue of Washington Montly. You can read it here.
They’re doing a lot of interesting things at UMR. There are no academic departments and every undergraduate (the first class matriculated a year ago) is pursuing a B.S. in health sciences. Professors from the humanities and the sciences coordinate their curricula on a week-by-week basis, so a student might synthesize
Core Projects plans 30 K-12 schools over next 3 yrs - CNBC-TV18 -
Core Projects plans 30 K-12 schools over next 3 yrs - CNBC-TV18 -
Core Projects plans 30 K-12 schools over next 3 yrs
Published on Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 17:12 | Updated at Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 17:56 | Source : CNBC-TV18
Core Projects has planned a foray into the school management business. It is expected to invest Rs 150 crore for setting up schools, which is estimated to grow at 20% CAGR.
The school management business, better known as K-12, is the fastest growing segment in the country.
Excerpts from Midcap Radar on CNBC-TV18 Watch the full show » |
In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Maya Sinha, Director, Core Projects & Technologies spoke on the revenue prospects for the company.
Below is a verbatim transcript. Also watch the accompanying video.
Q: If I remember right when we last spoke, Core Projects had announced that they are going to enter the school management business in a big way. What is the timetable, what has been achieved so far and what do you see being achieved in FY11 in terms of setting up schools?
A: Core Projects has decided to enter the K-12 segment in a big way. We are planning to set up 30 schools in the segment over the next three years. These 30 schools are divided into three subsets. The first subset would be K-12 schools targeting tier I cities, targeting the IB school population. For this we are planning international collaborations.
Core Projects is one of those companies in the education field which is an Indian MNC and has started operations abroad much before they started operations in India. So we hope to leverage this advantage and have tie-ups with certain international well-known schools for this segment.
The second segment would concentrate on tier II and tier III cities and we would be looking at setting up traditional K12 schools in this segment.
The exciting segment is where we are planning 10 schools which would be academic as well as sports. So these are the integrated schools where
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