Education programs funding - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

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Bill Introduced: H.R.2658 All Children are Equal Act

To amend the weighted child count used to determine targeted grant amounts and education finance incentive grant amounts for local educational agencies under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

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Bill Introduced: H.R.2653 Ready-to-Compete Act

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to award grants to prepare individuals for the 21st century workplace and to increase America's global competitiveness, and for other purposes.

5min 

JUL 14

Bill Introduced: S.1230 Alternative Fueled Vehicles Competitiveness and Energy Security Act of 2013

A bill to reduce oil consumption and improve energy security, and for other purposes.

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Bill Introduced: S.1197 Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014

An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

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JUL 13

Bill Introduced: H.R.2642 Farm bill

To provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes.

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JUL 06

Bill Introduced: S.1152 Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to help build a stronger health care workforce.

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JUL 05

Bill Introduced: H.R.2516 Providing Resources to Improve Dual Language Education Act of 2013

To establish dual language education programs in low-income communities.

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Bill Introduced: H.R.2515 Strengthening Kids' Interest in Learning and Libraries Act

To amend the provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 regarding school library media specialists, and for other purposes.

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Bill Introduced: H.R.2517 Families Learning and Understanding English Together Act of 2013

To improve the literacy and English skills of limited English proficient individuals, and for other purposes.

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Bill Introduced: S.1222 Rural Education Achievement Program Reauthorization Act of 2013

A bill to amend the small, rural school achievement program and the rural and low-income school program under part B of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,

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School board votes to cut pay of Palmdale teachers, staff | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC

School board votes to cut pay of Palmdale teachers, staff | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC:

School board votes to cut pay of Palmdale teachers, staff

Jed Kim | July 17th, 2013, 5:11pm

Calvin Robinson

Palmdale Elementary Teachers Association members rally outside a July 16, 2013, school board meeting.

The Palmdale School District Board of Trustees voted Tuesday night to implement proposed salary cuts and furlough days for its employees.

The 4-1 vote immediately institutes a 3.8 percent salary cut, up to nine furlough days and a hard cap on employee health benefits. The cuts would go up by an additional 8.4 percent next year.

"Obviously this is going to have a dramatic impact on our membership – many who will be losing their homes, defaulting on loans," said Hugo Estrada, president of thePalmdale Elementary Teachers Association. "It’s going to be a very hard time for our membership."

Estrada said that the cuts add up to about $1,000 each month for district employees.

“Can you imagine what our members are going through right now, thinking about 

NYC Educator: The Sunshine State

NYC Educator: The Sunshine State:

The Sunshine State

There are many advantages to living in Florida, if you don't care whether or not your vote counts. For one thing, there are all those beaches. You can bicycle over from the condo, sit in the sun, swim, and if you're so inclined, stroll over to the tiki bar and drink yourself silly.

If you're retired, the tax rates are really low. So are the property values. If the prices in NY make your head spin, you can probably pick yourself up a nice little home for 20% of what it would've run you around these parts.

If you don't care for the beach, you can move to Orlando and visit Mickey Mouse until your head spins. You can go to water parks, 

Duncan: Bipartisan support elusive for Obama’s proposal to expand preschool | EdSource Today

Duncan: Bipartisan support elusive for Obama’s proposal to expand preschool | EdSource Today:

Duncan: Bipartisan support elusive for Obama’s proposal to expand preschool

July 17th, 2013 | Add a Comment | 
By Lillian Mongeau

Securing bipartisan support for the president’s $75 billion proposal to expand public preschool continues to be a challenge, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Wednesday on a media panel on early childhood education moderated by EdSource Today reporter Lillian Mongeau.

Duncan said he is meeting with Republican lawmakers as well as Republican governors and local school boards in an effort to convince conservatives that spending on the $75 billion plan is an investment that will pay dividends. The program, paid in part through an increase on the federal tobacco tax, would allow states to provide more preschool options for low-income families.

“There are many Republican members in the House and Senate who understand that there are 

Mark Yudof signs off as president of the University of California - by Kathryn Baron

Mark Yudof bid a formal farewell Wednesday to the University of California. The outgoing UC president’s remarks at the Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco were part thank you, part reflection and, emblematic of his position as head of leading university system, part lecture. He made his comments one day before the regents are set to vote on the nomination of U.S Secretary of Homeland... [[

by Kathryn Baron / 52min 

Utah: Call to end requirement for children to attend school | Reclaim Reform

Utah: Call to end requirement for children to attend school | Reclaim Reform:

Utah: Call to end requirement for children to attend school

Posted on July 17, 2013by kenpreviti

Utah state Sen. Aaron Osmond (R) is calling on his state to put an end to the requirement that children go to school.

The USA is spending billions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan to build new public schools for the children of those countries. Here at home, the War Against Public Education ratchets up another notch.

“Osmond plans to introduce legislation in the upcoming state Senate session to modify compulsory education requirements.” Full article HERE.

Osmond goes on to say, “I believe the time has come for us to re-evaluate what we expect 

Winning Rap of Science Genius 2013 — Whole Child Education

Winning Rap of Science Genius 2013 — Whole Child Education:

THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG

Winning Rap of Science Genius 2013

July 17, 2013 by Jason Flom

Connecting learners with curricular content so they take ownership of it and make it their own necessitates that design and delivery of learning experiences meets two requirements.

1. It must be meaningful to learners.
2. It must make sense to learners.

In a paradigm of top-down education reform that effectively limits teacher autonomy, this is easier said than done. How much flexibility (or encouragement) do teachers have to adapt curricula and enlist students as co-creators of educational experiences? Not much. Nor are they trained in that capacity. The result is scripted content designed for average student across the nation, making it effective for no-one because no learner is average across the board. (For more on this topic, check out Todd Rose's brilliant TEDxSonoma talk on the "Myth of Average.")

A small group of passionate and dedicated educators in New York City, lead by Columbia Teachers College 

7-17-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum

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Gifted Student Information/Advocacy Next Week

From Education Week:Next week (July 21-27, 2013) marks National Parenting Gifted Children Week, a time of focused awareness and advocacy regarding the needs of gifted children. The week, which is listed on the National Special Events Registry, is sponsored by SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) and coincides with SENG's annual conference, taking place this year July 19-21 in Orlando, F

by Melissa Westbrook / 33min 

 Hamilton Assistant Principal moves to become Principal at McClure

Word has come that Shannon Conner, assistant principal at Hamilton International Middle School, is leaving to become principal at McClure Middle School.  She has a child who will be attending there this fall. This year, like others past, certainly has been a principal version of musical chairs.  West Seattle seems to have been hit the hardest.Ex. Director Carmela Dellino is leaving (after a year i

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What's Going to Happen to the Money from School Zone Tickets?

The Stranger follows up on this question with some answers (but still with question marks):As you may have noticed, the city began using automated cameras to enforce speed limits near four schools in December of 2012, and they're going to expand the program to install cameras near five more schools next year. By June, the city had issued 30,400 tickets at $189 a pop. While initially estimated to b

by Melissa Westbrook / 2min 

APP/Lowell/Lincoln

A reader, Budget Reader, asked some questions about the seemingly low budgeting for APP@Lowell/Lincoln (which to most people's minds are two schools but not to the district).  BR followed through and asked the district's Joe Paperman.  I thought it worth having its own thread for institutional memory and because several parents have asked the same questions.This is NOT a thread to start in on APP

by Melissa Westbrook / 36min 

7-17-13 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:

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Edushyster Blows Up Democracy Prep 100% Grad Rate and New Yorker Shill Piece

I was going to do a piece on the New Yorker article on the publicity seeking Democracy Prep but was so spitting mad I couldn't think straight. To our rescue comes Edushyster. Did DP give UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a speaker's fee as part of the PR machine hype, which to charters like DP is their most important operations? Just askin'.I was in a DP co-located school in Harlem a few years ago

by ed notes online / 10min 

Bruce Baker: Charters are Parasites

Here is the Ravitch post with the link to Bruce's piece:Bruce Baker has studied Newark charters repeatedly. As he shows in this post, their greatest success is their ability to skim the students who are most likely to succeed. Some if his findings about their academic growth–or lack thereof-may surprise you.  Charters are parasites, he concludes, that harm their host. Making the entire district ch

by ed notes online / 10min 

Gary Gives Advice to an upcoming TFAer

And to TFA:  Shame on you for disrespecting this woman by not providing her adequate training.  And shame on you for having no concern for the 150 to 200 students who she is about to teach.  Teachers who only taught a few fourth graders reading and math for sixteen hours are most certainly not going to close any achievement gaps in their first year teaching middle school science.  There is a reaso

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Newark Confidential - Turnaround Children Inc. Transparency Grade: F

[Cami] Anderson refuses to respond to open requests for information, and Turnaround officials are equally evasive... Attempts to contact New Jersey Education Commissioner Chris Cerf  have been met with similar silence..... Ted CohenCami Anderson, one of Joel Klein's hatchet women, now Supt of Newark schools, won't share info? Shocking.Guest Editorialby Ted Cohen The top school official in a major

by ed notes online / 10min 

7-16-13 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: Video – MORE Summer 2013: High Stakes Testing and the Schools Our Children DeserveMORE kicked off the summer series by taking a look at the effects of high stakes testing in our schools. Parents from Change the Stakes joined us to discuss why a growing parent movement against the high stakes nature of these tests is mounting not just in NYC but statewide and nationally. We discuss

by mike simpson / 9h 

AFT Launches Six-Figure Ad Campaign Targeting Republican Education Bill AFT - A Union of Professionals

AFT - A Union of Professionals - AFT Launches Six-Figure Ad Campaign Targeting Republican Education Bill:

 

AFT Launches Six-Figure Ad Campaign Targeting Republican Education Bill

Six-Figure Radio, Print, Online Ad Campaign in D.C. and Rep. Cantor's District

WASHINGTON—The 1.5 million-member American Federation of Teachers launched a six-figure radio, online and print ad buy today in Washington, D.C., and the Virginia congressional district of Rep. Eric Cantor targeting Republicans in Congress for pushing the so-called Student Success Act. The bill dramatically slashes resources for schools; takes away funding for disadvantaged students, English language learners and other students; and does nothing to address pervasive overtesting.

And despite the Republicans' rhetoric about the federal government not being involved in local decisions, the bill mandates a flawed system of teacher evaluations and gives the federal government, not local schools, more say over how teachers should be evaluated.

"It's clear just how disconnected Republicans are from what is going in schools in their districts and across the country, and what children, parents and teachers need," said AFT President Randi Weingarten. "At a time when nearly half our students are living in poverty, this bill represents a historic abandonment of our commitment to level the playing field for disadvantaged children. And Republicans want to double down on the test fixation that is draining the joy out of teaching and learning."

The bill has brought together a group of strange bedfellows, with organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Heritage Foundation joining the AFT, The Education Trust, other education groups and the Leadership Council on Civil Rights in opposition to the bill.

The AFT's ad buy includes radio and online ads in Washington, D.C., and Rep. Cantor's district in Virginia. The AFT has also partnered with The Education Trust to run full-page ads in Roll Call and The Hill, and is pushing patch-through calls targeting Republican members of Congress.

Print Ad

AFT's Radio Ad "Add Up"

Parent:
As a mom, there's nothing more important to me than my kids' education.

Teacher:
I absolutely love teaching. Teachers make a difference in students' lives.

Parent:
That's why none of us—parents or teachers—support what Congress is doing.

Announcer:
Rep. Eric Cantor and Republicans in Congress want to put the federal government in every classroom.

On Friday, they'll vote to give federal politicians more control over how local teachers are evaluated—even Jim DeMint's Heritage Foundation agrees this is bad policy.

Teacher:
Politicians in Washington don't know what's best for students. Teachers do.

Parent:
Nobody I talk to thinks Congress is doing a good job, and yet they want the federal government to decide how our local teachers are evaluated doing their jobs?!?

Teacher:
It just doesn't add up.

Parent:
Makes no sense.

Teacher:
It's local parents and teachers who know what's best for our kids.

Announcer:
Tell Eric Cantor: More federal government control does not add up to better schools.

Call: 804-747-4073 and go to StopGovernmentOverreach.org.

Paid for by the American Federation of Teachers.

 

Follow AFT President Randi Weingarten: http://twitter.com/rweingarten

CONTACT:

Marcus Mrowka
202-879-4447
202-531-0689 (cell)
mmrowka@aft.org

Why do Republicans in Congress Want to Abandon our Responsibility to Help Every Child Succeed?

Republican leaders in Congress are pushing the so-called Student Success Act this week, which would starve our schools and our children of the resources and supports they need, does nothing to address the poor quality of standards and tests in our schools, and walks away from the expectation that all students be served well. This agenda is draining the joy from teaching and learning.

This bill represents a historic abandonment of our commitment to leveling the playing field for disadvantaged children.  

The promise of a high-quality public education is a promise we make to every child—that every child matters and that we have a collective responsibility to help all children dream their dreams and achieve them.

The Student Success Act not only falls far short of this promise, the Republican agenda abandons this promise.

Tell Congress: We need to reclaim the promise of public education, not abandon it.

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