Interim D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson accepts reform challenge

Interim D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson accepts reform challenge

VIDEO

Mixed reaction to Rhee resignation

Area residents react to the resignation of D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.

» LAUNCH VIDEO PLAYER

TOOLBOX Resize Print E-mail Yahoo! Buzz Reprints COMMENT 44 Comments | View All » POST A COMMENT You must be logged in to leave a comment.Log in | Register Why Do I Have to Log In Again? Discussion Policy

By Bill Turque

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 14, 2010; 7:18 PM

As Chancellor Michelle A. Rheewinds down a turbulent 31/2 years in the District, she leaves in her wake a question that will be largely Kaya Henderson's to answer: Can school reform continue with the same velocity and ambition under a leadership that values consensus and collaboration over blunt force and broken crockery?

THIS STORY

• Interim D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson accepts reform challenge
• The chancellorship of Michelle A. Rhee
• Michelle Rhee leaves, and the DCPS 'churn' continues

View All Items in This Story

Henderson's charge from presumptive mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray (D), who wants her to be his interim - and possibly permanent - chancellor, is to make sure that the answer is yes.

"I'm totally confident we can come together and push reforms with the same urgency," she said in a phone

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. UNIFIED CONTRACTS WITH OUTSIDE CONSULTANT TO ISSUE ITS OWN ‘VALUE-ADDED’ RATINGS OF DISTRICT SCHOOLS

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. UNIFIED CONTRACTS WITH OUTSIDE CONSULTANT TO ISSUE ITS OWN ‘VALUE-ADDED’ RATINGS OF DISTRICT SCHOOLS

L.A. UNIFIED CONTRACTS WITH OUTSIDE CONSULTANT TO ISSUE ITS OWN ‘VALUE-ADDED’ RATINGS OF DISTRICT SCHOOLS

LOUIS FREEDBERG - CALIFORNIA WATCH BLOG | HTTP://BIT.LY/CT4RVV

Photo by Louis Freedberg - Supplies in a California kindergarten class

October 15, 2010 | For the past year, the Los Angeles Unified School District has contracted with an outside consulting firm that has been doing its own "value-added" analysis of how effective schools are contributing to student outcomes.

The researchers with the firm, Education Strategy Consulting, said the results they have come up with are substantially different from those published for individual schools by the Los Angeles Times in its pathbreaking but controversial series of reports "Grading the Teachers."

Most of the attention generated by the L.A. Times series has focused on the paper's evaluations of individual teachers and its decision to publish their names alongside their "effectiveness" rating.

The Times also rated entire schools by effectiveness and included a list of the "most effective" schools in the district. California Watch was

Friday Churn: CSAP replacement on tour | EdNewsColorado

Friday Churn: CSAP replacement on tour | EdNewsColorado

Friday Churn: CSAP replacement on tour

by EdNews staff

What’s churning:

The group charged with revising the state testing system – otherwise known as CSAP – is slated to hold its final meeting today, nearly one year to the day after its first gathering on Oct. 26, 2009. The Assessment Stakeholders Committee is scheduled to meet from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Golden. According to a news

Steinberg Denounces Governors Line Item Vetoes

The Associated Press: Cancer bracelets raise debate over school codes

The Associated Press: Cancer bracelets raise debate over school codes

Cancer bracelets raise debate over school codes

(AP) – 4 hours ago

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A $4 rubber bracelet meant to raise breast cancer awareness has done that and more: Students nationwide are wearing the "I (heart) boobies" wristbands, and running afoul of school administrators.

Schools from California to Florida have banned the bracelets because they believe the "boobies" language is inappropriate.

The bracelets are marketed by a California-based nonprofit created to raise breast cancer awareness among youth. The Keep A Breast Foundation has sold 2 million of the bracelets so far, with the money going to breast cancer research and education programs.

The group believes a bracelet with a catchy, envelope-pushing slogan such as "I (heart) boobies" is a better way to teach kids about breast cancer than more traditional methods like pink

Tea Party Candidate David Harmer Wants to Abolish Public Schools

Tea Party Candidate David Harmer Wants to Abolish Public Schools

Tea Party Candidate: Abolish All Public Schools

Updated: 10 minutes ago

PrintText Size

Print this page|EmailShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on DiggShare on Lifestream

David KnowlesWriter

AOL News Surge Desk

(Oct. 14) -- School's out ... forever?

Tea Party candidate David Harmer, who is running as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 11th District, thinks the nation's public education system should more closely resemble the way it looked in 1825. In other words, Harmer would abolish public schools altogether.

In an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000, Harmer wrote the following:

To attain quantum leaps in educational quality and opportunity, however, we need

Baltimore teachers reject proposed contract

Baltimore teachers reject proposed contract

Oct 15, 2010 8:06am

Email

Print

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Teachers Union says the city's public school teachers have rejected a contract that would have tied pay to classroom performance.

Union President Marietta English said Thursday that the results reflect misinformation about the contract.

The proposed contract included pay raises and kept health benefits at their current rate. But some were wary of a provision that would have replaced a system where seniority and degrees determined pay with one where they were paid by effectiveness in the classroom and pursuit of professional development.

The union and schools officials say 58 percent of the more than 2,000 teachers in the

Keep tight reins on charter schools | dailyworld.com | Daily World

Keep tight reins on charter schools | dailyworld.com | Daily World

Keep tight reins on charter schools

OCTOBER 15, 2010

• Print this page
• E-mail this article
• Share
• Type Size A A A

When it comes to our deeply divided public discourse, there's an oasis of bipartisan consensus in a desert of talking points and talking heads. It's education reform.

The broad consensus is for measures pursued by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and Gov. Bobby Jindal, to give you an idea. They include monitoring of performance among disadvantaged statistical subgroups, performance standards measured by testing, an easing of work and tenure rules that make it tough to get rid of ineffective administrators and teachers, and — maybe the biggest change of all — charter schools.

Applications have been filed both in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes to operate the schools, so far unsuccessfully. Public money goes to the schools, which are generally operated by some entity other than

East L.A. Group to Challenge Charter Schools : Eastern Group Publications

East L.A. Group to Challenge Charter Schools : Eastern Group Publications

East L.A. Group to Challenge Charter Schools

By Gloria Angelina Castillo, EGP Staff Writer

3 Votes

Applicant teams in the second round of Los Angeles Unified School District’s Public School Choice (PSC 2.0) are in the process of developing plans to be included in their application bids to turn-around chronically underachieving schools and manage new campuses. The applications are due Dec. 1.

Locally, East LA Star Academy High School falls under the district reform plan. Two charter school applicants, an education-focused organization, and a group from the LAUSD’s local district office have expressed interest in running the school.

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Staff photo by KATY KUEHNER

Arne Duncan listens to Hillsborough teacher Amanda Newman during a round-table discussion.

< >

By SHERRI ACKERMAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 15, 2010

RELATED LINKS

• Class-size amendment on ballot
• TBO Education

vote
nowBuzz up!

TAMPA The education community is a lot like a family, Arne Duncan said.

The adults fight and the children lose.

"We have to professionalize education,'' said Duncan, the nation's education secretary, during a roundtable discussion Thursday at Tampa's Rampello Downtown Partnership School. "Hillsborough already is at the forefront of that

Education-Minded Business Group Backs Class-Size Amendment | Sunshine State News

Education-Minded Business Group Backs Class-Size Amendment | Sunshine State News

Education-Minded Business Group Backs Class-Size Amendment

Amendment 8 faces tough test to pass

BY: GRAY ROHRER | POSTED: OCTOBER 15, 2010 4:05 AM

TAGS:

AMENDMENT 8, CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS, DEWEY & ASSOCIATES, ELECTION DAY,FLORIDA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, MASON-DIXON POLLING, NEWS, WILL WEATHERFORD, POLITICS

|

2comments

Education-supporting business groups are backing the class-size amendment that would soften caps on the number of children in each classroom.

The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations, an organization of business-backed groups that support education with offices in all 67 counties, announced Thursday that a survey of its members revealed 84 percent of them support Amendment 8.

“We do think that’s pretty significant,” Mary Chance, executive director of CFEF, said of the results.

The survey, conducted in August by Dewey & Associates, a St. Petersburg consulting firm, also focused