MARQUITA BROWN • MBROWN13@CLARIONLEDGER.COM • OCTOBER 4, 2010
Education officials say a greater emphasis on diet and exercise and a growing emphasis on intervention over punishment may help explain the steep drop in student expulsions and suspensions across the state.
The number of expulsions reported to the state Department of Education fell to 527 last year from 766 in 2005-06. The number of suspensions dropped to 50,978 last year from 78,920 in 2005-06, according to department.
Shane McNeill, director of the state Office of Healthy Schools, credits a combination of factors.
THIS JUST IN FROM THE SAVE SEATTLE SCHOOLS BLOG –
It sounds like Seattle School Superintendent Goodloe-Johnson may have already, unilaterally, negotiated something with TFA — the multimillion-dollar enterprise that recruits young college grads and declares them “teachers” after only 5 weeks’ of training and only requires them to stay on the job for 2 years. Only 34 % of them stay for a third year. They are non-union, btw, and paid accordingly.
Yet another shady backroom deal by the corporate ed reformers, pushing THEIR agenda on our schools, ou
"We're here, and we're going to stay here until we get the library the way we want it,'' Pilsen resident Evelin Santos said of the Whittier School field house that officials call a safety hazard. "If we have to, we are going to stay through the winter.'' (Sun-Times)
We've become accustomed to the mayor's taking over parts of
The publication of a series of articles on teacher evaluations in the Los Angeles Times has generated a huge firestorm of controversy. On the one hand are the “reformers” who believe the time is past due for a complete revamp of teacher evaluations, and on the other are academics who express serious concerns about using test scores to measure something for which they were not designed.
But what many forget is that teacher evaluation methods in California must be negotiated between teachers and management.
In fact, all contracts and their provisions, are negotiated by these groups. Today’s latest fad is the Value Added Measure (VAM), and as of today, in spite of the publication of a teacher database online, it is still not a part of
