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4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT

CALIFORNIA EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS SCORE FIFTH FROM BOTTOM IN NATIONAL VOCABULARY TESTS

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By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News |  http://bit.ly/VSd0nU 12/06/2012  ::  California ranks fifth-lowest in the nation in students' vocabulary -- a critical part of reading, according to results of national standardized tests released Thursday. smf: In the  chart at the right the blue at the top/red at the bottom trending is interesting – albeit statistically meaningless.  Unless

15 CANDIDATES MEANS A CROWDED BALLOT FOR LAUSD BOARD ELECTION

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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/XAZ0D7 12/06/2012   ::  Fifteen candidates, including two incumbents, met Wednesday's filing deadline to run for three seats on the Los Angeles Unified board in the March 5 primary. District 2 incumbent Monica Garcia has already qualified to appear on the ballot, along with challengers Robert Skeels and Isabel Vasquez for the East

LAUSD SCHOOLS FACE CHALLENGE OF MAKING ARTS PART OF THE CORE CURRICULUM

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Tami Abdollah with Ricky O'Bannon | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/YW3BQ Mae Ryan/KPCC : Students dance in the after-school Greenway Arts Alliance program, a magnet program within Fairfax high school. December 7th, 2012, 6:00am  ::  Arts advocates and educators are excited that the Los Angeles Unified School District Board voted unanimously in October to make arts a "core subject."

2 stories + Ruling: COURT OVERTURNS RULING GIVING MORE SPACE TO CHARTER SCHOOLS

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LAUSD WINS KEY LEGAL BATTLE WITH CHARTER SCHOOLS: California appellate court panel strikes down a ruling that could have opened up many classrooms for charters and created potential hardships for traditional campuses. By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/UKOir3 December 7, 2012  ::  Los Angeles school district officials won a key legal battle with charter schools this week, when

WEBINAR: “Kids Are Drinking WHAT?!”

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from EatRight: The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Formerly the American Dietetic Association | http://bit.ly/YFHFdB 5 December 2102  ::  The National Dairy Council is holding a free one-hour webinar December 12 covering beverage consumption trends among children. The webinar "Kids Are Drinking WHAT?!" will share data from recent analyses of the National Health and Nutrition Examination

PARENT+STUDENT ADVOCATE/4LAKids BLOGGER SCOTT FOLSOM QUALIFIES FOR SCHOOL BOARD BALLOT, IS ENDORSED BY UTLA

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by smf for 4LAKidsNews Dec 6, 2012 ::  Yesterday I turned in my nominating petitions to the City of LA elections office and preliminarily qualified for the March 5th primary election for LAUSD  Board of Education, Seat #2.  That seat is currently occupied by Board of Education President Monica Garcia. Later in the evening I was endorsed by a vote of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) House

THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SAYS YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO A BAD EDUCATION

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By: Melissa Griffin | Special to The SF Examiner | http://bit.ly/TJWFlU S.F. Examiner file photo 11/30/12 6:19 PM  ::  What kind of education is meaningful? Straight from the “careful how you defend yourself” file is this insight from the California Department of Education, which recently defended itself from allegations that our kids are receiving a substandard education by arguing that, “

DAVE BRUBECK

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smf Thursday, December 6, 2012 ::  On Tuesday afternoon I was driving home –if bachelor squalor can be called that - past a curious shop in Cypress Park that had caught my eye. There was an open parking place out in front. It wasn’t raining. I grabbed it - an omen. The door is a wormhole to another glitch in spacetime. The shop is truly curious, a hodgepodge of thrift store finds: furniture,

Report: STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PART OF THE PAYOFF WITH BIG FACILITIES INVESTMENT

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By Kimberly Beltran, SI&A Cabinet Report | http://bit.ly/YwCFYX Tuesday, December 04, 2012  ::  An investment over the past decade of nearly $20 billion by Los Angeles Unified School District in new schools and facilities has had a direct result in higher student achievement – especially for those migrating to new elementary campuses, according to a new study. The findings, contained in a

2 stories: NEW LITIGATION FILED RELATED TO ALLEGED LEWD CONDUCT AT MIRAMONTE

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-- Howard Blume, LA Times/L.A. NOW | http://lat.ms/11TwR9M December 5, 2012 |  6:00 am  ::  Attorneys filed four more lawsuits this week in connection with lewd-conduct charges against a former teacher at Miramonte Elementary School. The litigation, filed Monday by the firm Manly & Stewart, accuses the Los Angeles Unified School District of negligence, fraud, sexual harassment, gender violence

LAUSD BOARD OKs DEAL WITH UTLA ON PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS

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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/UnW5J2 12/04/2012 11:48:15 AM PST/Updated:   12/04/2012 07:09:00 PM PST  ::  The LAUSD school board signed off Tuesday on a deal with the teachers union to implement a new system that will incorporate student test data in performance evaluations. The board voted 5-0 in executive session to approve the agreement reached last Thursday

Former Senator Gloria Romero: SHE HAS A LITTLE LIST

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Billboards promote law that lets students leave low performing schools Adolfo Guzman-Lopez | KPCC 89.3/Pass-Fail | http://bit.ly/YJ0R92 Photo courtesy of Ed Reform Now December 3rd, 2012, 2:43pm  ::  The Open Enrollment Act became California law two years ago with the goal to give kids a way out of the worst schools in the state. The law compels the state to develop a list of the 1,000 worst

SEN. PADILLA REINTRODUCES BILL MAKING IT EASIER TO FIRE TEACHERS FOR MISCONDUCT

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By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer, LA Daily News | http://bit.ly/YJHD3b 11/30/2012  ::  State Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima, plans to reintroduce legislation Monday that would make it easier for school districts to fire teachers for misconduct. The bill is expected to be similar to Senate Bill 1530, which Padilla authored last session, that would have made a school board the final authority in

HOMESCHOOLERS AND TEA PARTIERS - DISGUISED AS SENATE REPUBLICANS - BLOCK U.N. DISABILTIES TREATY

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Senate Republicans block the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities By Morgan Little | LA Times | http://lat.ms/YwlV3R Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, right, is wheeled into the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington by his wife, Elizabeth Dole. (CSPAN2 / Associated Press Photos) December 4, 2012, 10:52 a.m. ::  The Senate rejected a United Nations

WHAT’S IN A NAME? Discord.

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Celebrities? Historical figures? Neighborhoods? As L.A. Unified replaces temporary generic campus names with permanent monikers, the process has become political, controversial or just plain wacky. By Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/TB0kQf South Region Elementary School #11, L.A. Unified's newest campus, recently opened. The principal said it would be re-named after a

A NEW WAY TO RATE L.A. UNIFIED’S TEACHERS

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An agreement on evaluations takes a broad-based approach, using student test scores but not relying too heavily on that one measure. LA Times Editorial |  http://lat.ms/XqdzcA Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. John Deasy chats with students on the first day of classes at the Hilda L. Solis Learning Academy in East Los Angeles on Aug. 14. (Los Angeles Times) December 5, 2012  :: 

L.A. UNIFIED SAYS DEAL ON EVALUATIONS MEETS COURT ORDER + smf’s 2¢

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District files brief by judge's deadline, but details remain unresolved in agreement with union on using student test scores to assess teachers. By Teresa Watanabe and Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/TJaQFr December 4, 2012, 9:20 p.m.  ::  The Los Angeles Unified School District filed court papers Tuesday asserting that a new tentative agreement with the teachers union has

CITY BAILS OUT ON LEASE WITH DYSFUNCTIONAL COMMUNUTY COLLEGE DISTRICT, EXPOSES DEMOCRATIC PARTY MACHINE

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The Van de Kamps Follies continue at Los Angeles Community College District, unabated by Miki Jackson and Laura Gutierrez , CityWatch VOICES -   /Vol 10 Issue 97 |  http://bit.ly/YOiLaI DEc 4, 2012  ::  On Wednesday (December 5, 2012), the Board of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is expected to accept the City of Los Angeles’ decision to prematurely terminate its lease of

THE ‘FLORIDA MIRACLE’ (aka THE TEXAS MIRACLE v 2.0): How Florida Schools Are Failing To Prepare Graduates For College

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13th Grade: Florida’s K-12 public education system has graduated hundreds of thousands of students in the past decade who couldn’t read, write or solve math problems well enough to take some college-level courses. By Mc Nelly Torres and Lynn Waddell. Florida Center for Investigative Reporting| http://bit.ly/Vu9Ry9 <> Shakira Lockett, 22, spent three

AT BROOKLYN FREE SCHOOL, A MOVEMENT BORN WITH LIBERTY AND NO TESTING FOR ALL

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Lucas Kavner / huffington post | http://huff.to/VlRSKh 11/30/2012 8:38 am EST Updated: 11/30/2012 11:46 pm EST  ::  NEW YORK -- On a recent Wednesday morning at the Brooklyn Free School, a class was in session. Ten students, ranging in age from about 12 to 16, sat around a table having a heated debate about chemistry. And superpowers. "Those elements don't really go together," said one

Report: SCHOOL TESTING IN U.S. COSTS $1.7 BILLION; BUT THAT MAY NO BE ENOUGH

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Joy resmovits / huffington post  | http://huff.to/QxqOFi 11/29/2012 6:47 pm EST Updated: 11/29/2012 8:37 pm EST  ::  Matt Chingos has an idea that will likely roil the scores of parents and teachers who think the U.S. tests its students too much: we might actually spend too little on standardized testing. But he's not alone. "He shows, that with the debate about testing in this

Public Education in the other LA: LOUISIANA VOUCHER PROGRAM RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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By Stephanie Simon/Reuters / from Huffinton Post | http://huff.to/QVnFR8 11/30/2012 5:49 pm EST Updated: 11/30/2012 11:06 pm EST  ::  (Reuters) - A state judge on Friday shot down Louisiana's sweeping school voucher program, ruling that the state could not use funds set aside for public education to pay private-school tuition for thousands of low- and middle-income children. Louisiana

NO MORE EXCUSES FOR CALIFORNIA

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Themes in the News A weekly commentary written by UCLA IDEA on the important issues in education as covered by the news media Week of Nov. 26-30, 2012| http://bit.ly/RpWi1p 11-30-2012   ::  The U.S. Department of Education released data on Monday that for the first time used a common measure allowing for state-by-state comparisons. Not surprisingly, in yet another national measure, California

Attorney: “CRIMINAL CULPABILITY’ NEEDED TO FIX LAUSD ABUSE SCANDAL | CTC: FAILURE TO REPORT CONSTITUTES UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

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CBS los Angeles | http://cbsloc.al/Svj3iP November 30, 2012 12:02 PM  ::  LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An attorney representing alleged child sex abuse victims from Miramonte Elementary School Friday called for a more thorough audit of the Los Angeles Unified School District. KNX 1070′s Pete Demetriou reports the reaction comes after a state auditor criticized the district for failing to report

Tentative Agreement: LAUSD-UTLA TEACHER EVALUATION PROCEDURES

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from UTLA.NET TENTATIVE AGREEMENT: LAUSD-UTLA 2012 Evaluation Procedures Supplement to Art X 11-29-12

STUDENT SCORES MAY BE USED IN LAUSD TEACHER RATINGS: Union leaders and District officials agree to make testing data part of evaluations. But some hurdles remain.

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  "This is a complex agreement and possibly the most sophisticated evaluation agreement that I have seen. It assures that test scores will not be overused, will not be assigned an arbitrary and inappropriate weight, will not be the sole or primary determinant of a teacher's evaluation." -Diane Ravitch By Teresa Watanabe and

This Week's Education Research Report 12-8-12 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

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THIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORT

FIT KIDS FINISH FIRST IN THE CLASSROOM

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 day ago

Fit kids aren’t only first picked for kickball. New research from Michigan State University shows middle school students in the best physical shape outscore their classmates on standardized tests and take home better report cards. Published in the *Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness*, it’s the first study linking children’s fitness to both improved scores on objective tests and better grades, which rely on subjective decisions by teachers. The study also is among the first to examine how academic performance relates to all aspects of physical fitness – including body ... more »

Among low-income schools, traditional public schools show higher achievement scores than charters

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 day ago

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) recently released Report Cards for a majority of public and charter schools in the state. Public schools comprise 95% (1,772 schools) of the total data set, charter schools comprise 5% (101) of the total. The Report Cards represent a compilation of three years of data intended to provide a standard of measure for school, student, and teacher performance. Forward Institute is conducting an extensive study on the effects of Wisconsin 2011 Act 32 on high poverty vs. low poverty school students, to be completed in January 2013. For... more »

New NAEP Report Relates Vocabulary Skills to Reading Comprehension

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 day ago

* National- and State-Level Data Available for Grades 4, 8, and 12* The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report card focuses on how well students are able to use words to gain meaning from the passages they read. Although previous NAEP reading assessments included vocabulary questions, the 2009 assessment was redesigned to provide a new, systematic way of more fully measuring and reporting how students’ understanding of word meanings in the context of the passage impacts reading comprehension. Today’s report, Vocabulary Results from the 2009 and 2011 NAEP Re... more »

Charter Schools Under-Enroll Students With Special Needs, New Review Finds

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 2 days ago

Several recent reports, including one from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, have found that charter schools generally under-enroll special education students when compared to conventional public schools. A new report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education, however, asserts that charter schools’ special education rates are much closer to those of district public schools than is described by these other recent reports. A review of that new report concludes that, even though it was touted as reaching different conclusions – more favorable to charter schools – than ... more »

Using Student Test Scores to Measure Principal Performance

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 3 days ago

Expansion of the use of student test score data to measure teacher performance has fueled recent policy interest in using those data to measure the effects of school administrators as well. However, little research has considered the capacity of student performance data to uncover principal effects. Filling this gap, this article identifies multiple conceptual approaches for capturing the contributions of principals to student test score growth, develops empirical models to reflect these approaches, examines the properties of these models, and compares the results of the models empiricall... more »

Ensuring Educational Technology Meets the Needs of Students Today

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 3 days ago

Born in Another Time - The Report of the NASBE Study Group on the Role of Technology in Schools and Communities Summary and Recommendations Innovative technologies—from smartphones and smart TVs to iPads and even Leap Pads for preschoolers— have launched our children into a digital age, a period in which the average teenager texts 60 times every day, a large majority of teens have a social networking site, and the combined use of media by students averages 6.5 to nearly 10 hours daily, much of it in a multi-tasking environment. This generation of students truly has been born in a ... more »

Math Assessment Accommodations for English Language Learners

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 3 days ago

WestEd's Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West) examined the effect of linguistic modification on middle school students' ability to show what they know and can do on mathematics assessments. Linguistic modification involves reducing the complexity of the English used in a test in ways that support clarity without simplifying or significantly altering the targeted construct assessed. This can help ensure that math tests more accurately measure students' math understanding. This study resulted in a report prepared by REL West staff. Research Questions The primary research...more »

No Clear Path to Mathematics Learning

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 3 days ago

New research examining the course-taking patterns of some 24,000 students in 24 California unified school districts finds that students already doing well in mathematics in the 7th grade are more likely to take advanced math courses in high school and achieve proficiency on the California Standards Test (CST) in algebra. But for the many students who struggle with math in grade 7, there is no clear path to learning and achievement in this critical content area. Conducted by a team of researchers at WestEd and SRI International and released today by the Center for the Future of Tea... more »

Effectiveness of Four Supplemental Reading Comprehension Interventions

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 3 days ago

This article presents evidence from a large-scale randomized controlled trial of the effects of four supplemental reading comprehension curricula (Project CRISS, ReadAbout, Read for Real, and Reading for Knowledge) on students’ understanding of informational text. Across 2 school years, the study included 10 school districts, more than 200 schools, and more than 10,000 fifth-grade students. Schools interested in implementing 1 of the 4 supplemental curricula were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 treatment groups or to a control group. The impact analyses in the study's first year revea...more »

Effective Reading Programs for Spanish-Dominant English Language Learners (ELLs) in the Elementary Grades

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 3 days ago

This review synthesizes research on English reading outcomes of all types of programs for Spanish-dominant English language learners (ELLs) in elementary schools. It is divided into two major sections. One focuses on studies of language of instruction and one on reading approaches for ELLs holding constant language of instruction. A total of 13 qualifying studies met the inclusion criteria for language of instruction. Though the overall findings indicate a positive effect (effect size = .21) in favor of bilingual education, the largest and longest term evaluations, including the o... more »

First- Through Eighth-Grade Retention Rates for All 50 States

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 3 days ago

How many students repeat a grade each year? How do retention rates vary across states and over time? Despite extensive research on the predictors and consequences of grade retention, there is no systematic way to quantify state-level retention rates; even national estimates rely on imperfect proxy measures. This report presents a conceptually simple method—based on publicly available data that are routinely collected each year—that describes retention rates at the state and national levels. After describing and validating this method, the authors use it to report first- through ... more »

Why Superintendents Turn Over

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 3 days ago

Although superintendent turnover can hinder district reform and improvement, research examining superintendent exits is scarce. This studyidentifies factors contributing to superintendent turnover in California by matching original superintendent and school board survey data with administrative data and information hand-collected from news sources on why superintendents left and where they went. Among 215 superintendents studied beginning in 2006, 45% exited within 3 years. Using a multinomial framework to separate retirements from other turnover, the authors find that factors suc... more »

Recruiting Effective Math Teachers: Evidence From New York City

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 3 days ago

For well over a decade school districts across the United States have struggled to recruit and retain effective mathematics teachers. In response to the need for qualified math teachers and the difficulty of directly recruiting individuals who have already completed the math content required for qualification, some districts, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York City, have developed alternative certification programs with a math immersion component to recruit otherwise well-qualified candidates who do not have undergraduate majors in math. This articl... more »

Behavior problems, not depression, linked to lower grades for depressed youths

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 week ago

Behavior problems, not depression, are linked to lower grades for depressed adolescents, according to a study in the December issue of the *Journal of Health and Social Behavior. * "Behavior problems including attention issues, delinquency, and substance use are associated with diminished achievement, but depression is not," said the study's lead author Jane D. McLeod, a sociology professor and an associate dean at Indiana University. "Certainly, there are depressed youths who have trouble in school, but it's likely because they are also using substances, engaging in delinquent acti... more »

State Spending on K-12 Assessment Systems

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 week ago

In the coming years, states will need to make the most significant changes to their assessment systems in a decade as they implement the Common Core State Standards, a common framework for what students are expected to know that will replace existing standards in 45 states and the District of Columbia. The Common Core effort has prompted concerns about the cost of implementing the new standards and assessments, but there is little comprehensive up-to-date information on the costs of assessment systems currently in place throughout the country. This new report by Matthew Chingos of... more »

ENHANCING THE EFFICACY OF TEACHER INCENTIVES

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 week ago

In recent years, a number of U.S. states and school districts have implemented teacher financial-incentive plans, also known as merit pay, with the goal of increasing student achievement. Some past studies have shown that such reform attempts, which pay teachers bonuses after their students hit certain goals, have had limited effects on student achievement. In Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives Through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment (NBER Working Paper No. 18237), co-authors Ronald Fryer, Jr., Steven Levitt, John List, and Sally Sadoff find that using an alternative "l...more »

Speedy Process for Common Standards Adoption

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 week ago

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NYS charter schools may not under-enroll students with special needs

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 week ago

A fresh examination of special education enrollment patterns in New York State suggests that charter schools may be doing better at enrolling students with special needs than many believe. The issue arises in part from a federal General Accounting Office (GAO) report that said, at the national level, charter schools enroll fewer students with special needs than schools run by districts. In the aggregate that may be true; but new research comparing New York State’s district-run schools with charter schools finds important variations in the enrollment patterns of students with specia... more »

NEW JERSEY CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS SIGNIFICANTLY OUTPERFORM THEIR DISTRICT SCHOOL PEERS

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 week ago

A new report released today by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that students in New Jersey charter public schools on average make larger learning gains in both reading and mathematics compared to their traditional district school peers. New Jersey charter school students on average gain an additional two months of learning per year in reading and an additional three months of learning per year in math compared to their district school counterparts. CREDO at Stanford University is the nation’s foremost independent analyst of charter s... more »

Current expenditures per pupil for public education

Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 1 week ago

This report presents state-level data on revenues by source and expenditures by function for public elementary and secondary education for school year 2009-10. Current expenditures per pupil for public elementary and secondary education were $10,652 on a national level in FY 10. Adjusting for inflation, per pupil state and local revenues decreased by 1 percent or more in 35 states and increased by 1 percent or more in 9 states from FY 09 to FY 10. Per pupil current expenditures decreased by 1 percent or more in 16 states and increased by 1 percent or more in 23 states from FY 09 to... more »