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Obama supports bill to avert teacher layoffs


The $23 billion package would help avert cuts at schools nationwide.
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VALERIE STRAUSS
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Posted at 6:30 AM ET, 05/17/2010

Why Obama, Duncan should have kept quiet about Rhode Island teachers

Lo and behold, several months after every teacher at a low-performing Rhode Island high school was fired so the school could get a fresh start, and after Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised the firings as an act of “courage,” and after President Obama declared that the firings showed a “sense of accountability,” well, after all of that, the teachers have been rehired.
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JAY MATHEWS
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Posted at 10:00 PM ET, 05/16/2010

Does denying dreams help kids learn?

Denying children cherished prizes is a controversial part of the No Excuses model. The idea is to build self-restraint. It has had an impact. Former KIPP students, now adults, tell me that losing a year-end trip was the most dramatic moment of their middle school years. They are still trying to measure its influence a decade later.
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Amid the havoc, K-12 relatively spared for now The Educated Guess

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Amid the havoc, K-12 relatively spared for now

Posted in State Budget
In his revised budget, Gov. Schwarzenegger is not suggesting any more cuts to K-12 schools than he proposed in January.
But that should provide little comfort or confidence to school districts. They’ll likely spend the summer watching a stalemate in Sacramento while worrying whether the school budgets they’ll set in June, using the governor’s revised state budget in May, will turn out to be too high. There’s a good chance they will be – even with the big spending cuts they’ll already include.
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By John Fensterwald on May 17th, 2010

Landmark ruling on teacher layoffs

Posted in Advocacy organizations, Tenure
A Superior Court judge has served notice to school districts statewide that the seniority rights of teachers do not trump the fundamental right of students to an equal opportunity for a good education.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Highberger issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday preventing any teacher layoffs for budgetary reasons at three Los Angeles Unified middle schools where large numbers of teachers have been given pink slips.
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By John Fensterwald on May 14th, 2010

Nonstop work on Race to the Top

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California’s forthcoming second-round application for Race to the Top may be a long-shot, but the half-dozen districts behind the effort sure aren’t treating it as such.
Staffers in the districts and consultants writing the application are working round the clock in shifts to get the document ready for submission in late May, Fresno Unified Superintendent Michael Hanson told a legislative hearing on Wednesday. And he expressed confidence that additional districts will sign a memorandum of understanding, committing them to the plan that is now in the works.
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By John Fensterwald on May 13th, 2010
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It’s Time to Take a Seat at the Table � InterACT

It’s Time to Take a Seat at the Table � InterACT

It’s Time to Take a Seat at the Table

by Kelly Kovacic
Pick up a newspaper or magazine. Peruse the internet or your daily dose of tweets. It won’t take long to hear the complaints as the bill of particulars lodged against our public education system grows longer with each passing day. Whether the issue is funding, tenure, assessments, choice, or unions, it seems no one is pleased these days. And, yet, everyone is an expert. No doubt because they once attended a school somewhere.
As the debate rages on about how to close the achievement gap and provide a quality education for all children, there is no shortage of viewpoints and philosophies. There is little consensus about most issues except, maybe, the relatively small role that teachers play in education policy. It is more than a bit ironic that the very professionals who teach students are often the last voices heard in policy discussions. I’m not talking about folks who used to be teachers or once studied teaching or represent teachers or know a teacher. I’m talking about the folks who are currently entering the classroom, teaching a full day or more, and then getting up and doing it again the next day. Rarely are we asked by the national policy makers on either side of the issue: “How does this policy affect your ability to instruct your students?” or “What is the best model to gauge the growth and learning of your students?” or “What data should be used to hold you and other teachers accountable?”
However, now there is an opportunity for teachers to get involved, and the result just might be a seat at the table for teachers.
As the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) goes through the reauthorization process, there are
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Rise & Shine: Paterson asks for delay of $1.5 billion in school aid | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Paterson asks for delay of $1.5 billion in school aid | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Paterson asks for delay of $1.5 billion in school aid

by Maura Walz
  • Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised the State Senate for passing a charter school cap lift bill. (Post)
  • Gov. Paterson asked to delay $1.5 billion in school aid to keep the state from going broke. (Daily News)
  • Archbishop Timothy Dolan says Catholic schools should welcome competition from charters. (Post)
  • Inspired by Hunter College’s ed school, Harlem Success Academy is using videos to train teachers. (WSJ)
  • Mayor Bloomberg appealed to Brooklyn churchgoers to help get the charter cap lifted. (WSJ, Daily News)
  • The Post: Charter schools that emphasize ed school fads over student achievement deserve to be closed.
  • Richard Whitmire: K-12 schools should be held accountable for boys’ poor literacy skills. (Daily News)
  • The state teachers union supports lifting the charter cap, an upstate union rep says. (Buffalo News)
  • Rocherster’s mayor called its mayoral control bill a “hybrid system.” (Democrat and Chronicle)
  • PS 37 on Staten Island has entered an online contest to win funds to help its disabled students. (NY1)
  • Queens’ I.S. 238 memorializes its former assistant principal, killed by swine flu last year. (Daily News)
  • N.J. Gov. Christie wants teachers to forgo raises, though their salaries are relatively low. (Star-Ledger)
  • Central Falls, R.I., reached a deal with its union to re-hire the teachers the district fired in March. (AP)
  • The final episode of “Law & Order” will be about the city’s “rubber rooms” for accused teachers. (Times)
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Community Colleges' Unfunded Mandate

May 17, 2010

Government and foundation leaders push agenda to improve completion rates, but budget cuts are eroding the very programs the experts say are vital.

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Flare-Up Over Immigration

May 17, 2010

Furor over Kennesaw State senior shows how divisive the issue remains -- and how students and colleges alike can be caught in the crossfire.

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No Walk in the Park

May 17, 2010

Two leisure studies programs have dramatically altered their curriculums to include a four-in-one course that is hardly leisurely — for students or faculty.

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Health Care From All Disciplines

May 17, 2010

Dartmouth's president launches what he believes to be a new multidisciplinary field: health care delivery science.

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Commencement Speakers Announced: Clark, FIT, Ithaca, Lakes Region CC, Macalester, Madison Area Tech, Marian Court, Ohio State, Prince George’s CC

May 17, 2010

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