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Monday, May 17, 2010

Blog Articles for S.3206: Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

Blog Articles for S.3206: Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

S.3206 - Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010

A bill to establish an Education Jobs Fund. view all titles (2)


Here's Another $23 Billion Bailout That You May Have Missed This Week
S. 3206, definite Keep Our Educators Working Act, H.R. 2847, definite Jobs 4 Main Street Act, & H.R. 4812, definite Local Jobs 4 America Act, each call 4 $23 billion towards inside (of) emergency support inthe direction -of preserve ...
05/15/10
Awesome: Another $23 Billion of Your Money to be Redistributed to ...
S. 3206, the Keep Our Educators Working Act, H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act, and H.R. 4812, the Local Jobs for America Act, each call for $23 billion in emergency support to preserve education jobs modeled after the State ...
05/14/10
Keeping America's Teachers in the Classroom | Obama Chronicles
S. 3206, the Keep Our Educators Working Act, H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act, and H.R. 4812, the Local Jobs for America Act, each call for $23 billion in emergency support to preserve education jobs modeled after the State ...
05/13/10
Big Education Ape: Obama Administration Supports Emergency Funding ...
S. 3206, the Keep Our Educators Working Act, H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act, and H.R. 4812, the Local Jobs for America Act, each call for $23 billion in emergency support to preserve education jobs modeled after the State ...
05/13/10
21st Century Democrats Blog: Harkin Education Bill
Recognizing the danger of losing tens of thousands of trained teachers, 21st Century Democrats Co-founder SenatorTom Harkin (D-IA) has introduced a bill entitled "Keep Our Educators Working Act" (S. 3206). When announcing the bill, ...
05/12/10
NSBA's Letter to the U.S. Senate
May 12, 2010 - Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010 (S. 3206)
05/10/10
Government Relations Legislative Update: Federal Update for May 10
The Keep Our Educators Working Act (S. 3206) would support compensation, benefits, and other expenses needed to retain existing employees and hire new ones at public educational institutions. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has ...
05/09/10
Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Action NOW !
Call, email, or fax the following places and urge them to support and pass, quickly, the Keep Our Educators Working Act (S.3206). Urge Your Senator to cosponsor the Keep Our Educators Working Act and to push for its immediate passage. ...
05/09/10
Why boards butt heads over budgets | Richmond Times-Dispatch
People may want to google H.R.4812 and S.3206 about funding and teacher dedicated money.Interesting reading. Flag Comment Posted by Skeller85 on May 10, 2010 at 11:00 pm. I heard from some folks today that schools are starting to get ...

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Stumbling blocks remain for newly minted teachers, career-switchers Hechinger Report | News Archive

Hechinger Report | News Archive

Stumbling blocks remain for newly minted teachers, career-switchers

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By Alexandra Moses

Ana Arroyo-Montano spent the first year in front of her class fearing she’d be fired.

After training in the Boston Teacher Residency program, the business major with five years’ experience in financial aid services wasn’t prepared for a room of kindergartners who didn’t speak English.

“Here I had all these kids and they’re lagging behind all the general-ed kids, and I’m wondering if it’s me,” she says. “José can’t count in English yet. Is that because it’s developmental? Is it because he doesn’t understand a word I’m saying?”

David Johnson (center) switched careers to become a teacher in Indiana (Photographer: Todd Moore, courtesy University of Indianapolis)

Career-changers like Arroyo-Montano are increasingly entering classrooms across the country. Their numbers have doubled over the last 20 years, in part due to alternative certification programs that welcome professionals from diverse backgrounds. There’s a new push to expand these pathways as states scramble to increase their chances of winning second-round money in President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top competition, which is

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Analysis: Gov. key figure in Kan. tax increase - Boston.com

Analysis: Gov. key figure in Kan. tax increase - Boston.com

Analysis: Gov. key figure in Kan. tax increase

By John Hanna
AP Political Writer / May 17, 2010
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TOPEKA, Kan.—Gov. Mark Parkinson deserves the biggest share of the credit -- or the blame -- when Kansas increases its sales tax in July to shore up its next budget.
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The Democratic governor pushed the Republican-controlled Legislature to raise taxes to avoid cuts in aid to public schools and other government programs. Consumers will pay a penny more for each dollar they spend at a store, hotel or restaurant.
Parkinson built his credibility as a budget-cutter before legislators opened their annual session, allowing him to argue the state had done enough trimming. Then, he did an excellent job of framing the debate.
He had allies, of course. Democratic and moderate Republican legislators forged alliances in both chambers, outmaneuvering conservative GOP leaders in the House. Educators and social service advocates kept up the pressure on legislators.
But Parkinson was the key player from the Legislature's opening on Jan. 11 through its last day exactly four months later. The $13.7 billion budget for the

SC GOP gov hopefuls back school choice, mergers

by Seanna Adcox, Associated Press Writer
The four Republican candidates running to replace South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford are promoting tax changes, school choice, teacher bonuses and district consolidation as ways to improve public education in the state.

Should we ask if Supreme Court nominee is gay?

by Martha Irvine, AP National Writer
She plays softball. Huge hint, right? She's 50, single and has a short haircut. Yup, definitely a lesbian.

An uplifting chorus

by Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist
Choir practice starts early at the Boston Renaissance Charter School — at 7:25 a.m., to be precise, when a group of bleary-eyed students begin taking the no-nonsense direction of Evelyn Lee-Jones.
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The Oil Spill And Our Educated Citizenry - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.


The Oil Spill And Our Educated Citizenry



"To educate a man in mind and not in moral is is
to educate a menace to society."
- Teddy Roosevelt

Is Our Competitive Educational System
Inadvertently Fueling A Culture Promoting
Shortcuts, Shrewdness, Egotism & An Every-Person-For-Themselves Behavior?


By C.J. Westerberg


One can't help but make larger connections to the enormity of events unfolding in the Gulf. The environment, the economics, the immorality of those in a position to make the decisions that led to this debacle - all create a narrative beyond the scope of comprehension.


As yet another blow to our collective trust regarding "those in charge", it makes one think about the role of education, the power wielded by those who have/had access to great education, and to question whether we have, as a society, conveniently "forgotten" the responsibilities that are inextricably bound with the gift of education. While we are a culture that celebrates
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