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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:12 am | Updated: 11:14 am, Thu Mar 31, 2011.

The San Diego Unified school board is opening up talks with two embattled charter schools about how to democratically elect their governing boards. And it is pressing another, newly forming charter to do the same if it wants to go longer without having to petition the school district to stay open.

It is a controversial step that the charters could easily wave off. Charter schools are publicly funded but independently run by their own chosen boards whose members are often chosen, not elected, by other board members. While some charters opt to have representatives who are chosen by parents or teachers, it is not required by law.

That means charter boards can sometimes veer away from what their communities want, making it hard to say who really represents the schools. The question of who

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This Week In Education: AM News: Forget KIPP -- Keep An Eye On Ohio

This Week In Education: AM News: Forget KIPP -- Keep An Eye On Ohio
Video: Seniority-Based Salaries Affect High-Poverty Schools Think poor schools get extra money above and beyond what regular or well-off schools get? Think again. As the folks from CAP explain above, schools with lots of cheap, inexperienced teachers effectively subsidize schools with an all-star, ...
AM News: Forget KIPP -- Keep An Eye On Ohio [image: image from webmedia.newseum.org] Ohio Union Law Tougher Than Wisconsin Measure HuffPo/NYT: After Wisconsin's labor battle seized the nation's attention, after nearly 100,000 people rallied in Madison to protest a bill to curb public-sector ...
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Kohn: What does education research really tell us? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Kohn: What does education research really tell us? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
A school principal’s unusual April 1st staff memo A high school principal in Ohio shares the weekly memo he has written and s distributing to his staff on April 1, complete with unusual news from the world of education.
Kohn: What does education research really tell us? Alfie Kohn takes a critical look at exactly what education research really tells us about homework, traditional teaching and support rewards.
Why schools should abandon zero-tolerance policies The tough disciplinary policy in Fairfax County public schools is not one of “zero tolerance,” officials there say. But it is a fine imitation of one, which is why it’s a good thing that Superintendent Jack D. Dale is now seeking changes
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Update On Ridiculous Florida Bill To Give Parents Grades | Engaging Parents In School...
Update On Ridiculous Florida Bill To Give Parents Grades I’ve written several posts about the unhelpful idea being pushed in Florida to have teachers grade parents. Happily, it doesn’t look like its making any kind of substantial progress. Here’s a news report giving an update and a Florida newspaper’s ...
“Parent Engagement Resources” Lorna Constantini from the great blog and webcast Parents As Partners as developed a great collection of Parent Engagement Resources. It’s definitely worth a visit.
President Obama On Parent Engagement I’ve just written a post at my other blog about today’s Univision Town Hall Meeting on Education with President Obama. Here’s is an excerpt from his comments: *What we’re trying to do as the government is to make sure that we’re providing more ...
“IB World: The Parents Issue” Our school has an International Baccalaureate program, and I teach a Theory Of Knowledge class as part of it. The IB magazine, IB World, had a “Parents Issue” late last year. There’s some stuff that might be useful.
What Was This New York Principal Thinking? *“Teachers at an East Harlem elementary school are bizarrely forbidden from communicating with parents without first getting a supervisor’s permission and from calling parents outside of normal school hours, the teachers handbook says.”* Read more ...
The “PTA Great Idea Bank” The “PTA Great Idea Bank” comes from…the National PTA, and has a huge quantity of parent involvement ideas. The quality is a decidedly uneven, but it could be a useful resource.
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Today’s “Round-Up” Of Good School Reform Articles & Posts | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Today’s “Round-Up” Of Good School Reform Articles & Posts | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
Today’s “Round-Up” Of Good School Reform Articles & Posts Here are a few good school reform articles and posts that have appeared over the past few days: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer by Dan DiMaggio. I’m adding it to The Best Posts On How To Prepare For Standardized Tests (And Why ...
March’s Best Posts I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see back issues of those newsletters here and my previous ...
These Three Slideshows On “How To Create Sustainable Behavior” Will Keep You Occupied For A Long Time I had read about Oliver Payne in a short line in The Wall Street Journal, and found that he had three exceptional slideshows on SlideShare. They’re very impressive, and cite research sources on each slide. Much on them can be applicable to the ...
Two New Intriguing Tools For Creating Video Playlists Here are two new intriguing tools that I’m adding to The Best Ways To Create Online Video Playlists: ShortForm lets you easily create your own “channel” of YouTube videos. It would make it easy to “curate” videos that a teacher would want to use in a ...
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Fixing Open Enrollment | Thoughts on Public Education

Fixing Open Enrollment | Thoughts on Public Education

Nordic tracking in California schools - by Kathryn Baron

by Kathryn Baron
An announcement is due any day now on whether Finland will take over California’s ailing public school system. Gov. Jerry Brown has reportedly been in secret negotiations with the European nation, long considered to have one of the best school systems in the world. As always, the Governor is holding the specifics of the talks – [...]

Fixing Open Enrollment - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Although it is not as well known yet as its fraternal twin, the Parent Trigger, Open Enrollment was the other reform that the Legislature rushed into law last year to jazz up the state’s application to the Race to the Top competition. And like the Parent Trigger, it’s a fine idea whose passage in haste [...]
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Huge bi-partisan support for taxing the rich to fix budget. Plan B? : SFGate: Politics Blog

Huge bi-partisan support for taxing the rich to fix budget. Plan B? : SFGate: Politics Blog

Huge bi-partisan support for taxing the rich to fix budget. Plan B?

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Think the budget negotiations are dead? Get ready for something that could contribute to a Plan B: Tax the rich.

We just got our hands on a new poll due out Friday that shows blow-the-roof-off support for something that has only been mumbled about in the most progressive corners of the Dome: Increasing taxes one percent on Californians making more than $500,000. It would raise $2.5 billion towards the state's $26.6 billion deficit.

We explored this issue weeks ago, but few would talk it up then. But now, they might.

How high is the support? Try a whopping 78 percent. Even 60 percent of Republicans and 79 percent of independent and other voters backed it, too.

"Those are the highest numbers I've ever seen. On a tax scale -- that's pretty much a perfect



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=86164#ixzz1IGy5kln7
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Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Who Is Paying for Teach for America?

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Who Is Paying for Teach for America?

Who Is Paying for Teach for America?

by Melissa Westbrook
As I previously reported, I had this back and forth with Washington STEM over their funding of TFA. At one point, they had brought in the TFA regional director who told me that they are trying to get recruits with science and math backgrounds. Clearly, there is no way for them to guarantee who will come but she said 10 recruits with math/science degrees had indicated Puget Sound as their first choice.
Now I see at the Washington STEM site this information (which appears to be new):

Washington STEM’s investment in Teach For America will fund TFA corps members holding STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degrees after they have been voluntarily hired by the Puget Sound partner
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SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: National Teach In- Sacramento Site

SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: National Teach In- Sacramento Site

National Teach In- Sacramento Site

by Duane Campbell


Campus Progressive Alliance



On Tuesday, April 5, over 100 universities, schools and community groups will participate in a teach-in on debt, austerity and how people are fighting back hosted by Cornel West and Frances Fox Piven from 11Am- 2PM. A national teach-in will be streamed live from New York City, followed by local teach-ins and strategy discussions around the country.

Our Sac State event will be in the Foothill Suite of the University Union from 11am- 2pm, April 5. Sponsored by DSA and the Campus Progressive Alliance.

It will be used to build for CFA day of Class Action on April 13.



Wall Street Banks, American corporations and their political allies have declared a one-sided war on the American people. This war is being waged at our schools and colleges, the workplace and in our communities.
 
Today, we are all working harder and earning less while corporate profits soar . A teach in is an opportunity for all to learn the background to the current crisis and to plan for opposition.

Please encourage your friends, colleagues, co-workers and students to participate.
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Schools Matter: Helping homeless children by testing them more?

Schools Matter: Helping homeless children by testing them more?

Helping homeless children by testing them more?

by skrashen
Sent to the NY Daily News, March 30

"Schools put to the test as ranks of homeless students grow, causing stress for kids, staff," March 30) tells us that 20% of children in some areas of Manhattan are homeless, which results in hunger, sleep deprivation, and no quiet place to do homework. Even the best teaching in the world will have very limited results with children living under these conditions.

Manhattan is not the only place with high levels of child poverty. In fact, the US has the highest level of child poverty among all industrialized countries.

Instead of taking steps to deal with these problems directly, the US Department of Education is investing huge

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