Education Week: ACLU Investigates Calif. School District Fees

Education Week: ACLU Investigates Calif. School District Fees

ACLU Investigates Calif. School District Fees

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The American Civil Liberties Union is examining school districts across California to determine if they are illegally charging students mandatory fees, an attorney said Friday.Los Angeles

The ACLU has received reports that cash-strapped districts are levying fees for everything from textbooks to cheerleading squads, which violates the state constitution's guarantee of a free, public education, said staff attorney David Sapp.

The issue is growing due to severe budget cutbacks in state education spending over th

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The Daily Churn: Monday | EdNewsColorado

The Daily Churn: Monday | EdNewsColorado

The Daily Churn: Monday

by Alan Gottlieb

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If you needed further proof that politics and education are inextricably intertwined, then the Denver Public Schools pension flap story should settle the matter. Smoldering embers were fanned into a brushfire Friday by a front-page New York Times story. The Washington Post weighed in Saturday, with a story about

This Week In Education: AM News: "Furloughing" Students - And PK Programs

This Week In Education: AM News: "Furloughing" Students - And PK Programs

AM News: "Furloughing" Students - And PK Programs

by Alexander Russo

Going to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On NYT: Plenty of businesses and governments furloughed workers this year, but Hawaii went further — it furloughed its schoolchildren... States cut preschool from budgets USA Today: States are cutting hundreds of millions from their prekindergarten budgets, undermining years of working to help young children... Reading and math scores fall sharply at two KIPP schools in District Washington Post: Reading and math scores fell sharply at two of the three high-performing D.C. charter middle schools operated by the Knowledge Is Power Program...Cheating Scandal Haunts Atlanta School Superintendent NYT: Even after an independent investigation recently found that the problem was much less widespread, critics have called for her resignation and attacked the investigation’s credibility... White supremacist running for Calif. school board AP: A white supremacist is running for a Southern California school board seat....

Queens Teacher: NY Daily News Promotes Breaking the Law

Queens Teacher: NY Daily News Promotes Breaking the Law

NY Daily News Promotes Breaking the Law

by Queens Teacher

Putting the kids first: Klein was right to use emergency powers in school fight
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Kids first. Hahahahahahahahahahaha.

Kudos to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein for using emergency powers to protect 100 students at high-performing Girls Prep from the connivings of the teachers union and state Legislature.

Yes, kudos to Klein for ramming yet another charter down our throats to help his rich buddies make a profit.

When Albany reauthorized mayoral school control last August, lawmakers attempted to limit the chancellor's discretion to close failing schools - actions that always discomfit teachers. The Legislature required educrats to detail every possible way, however remotely theoretical, that any child anywhere might be affected.

Language Segregation Alive in Ariz. Schools - New America Media

Language Segregation Alive in Ariz. Schools - New America Media

Language Segregation Alive in Ariz. Schools

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New America Media, Question & Answer, Vivian Po, Posted: Aug 09, 2010

Arizona schools have separated English learners from their English-speaking classmate in four-hour daily stretches since the state legislature mandated this process in 2007.

But although the statute (known as HB 2064) called on students to under go these “language immersion” sessions for

Carly Fiorina opposes emergency state aid bill to save teachers jobs and fund Medicaid

Carly Fiorina opposes emergency state aid bill to save teachers jobs and fund Medicaid

The Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in California, Carly Fiorina, opposes emergency federal legislation designed provide aid to states across the nation, including California. The emergency state aid bill would save the jobs of approximately 13,700-16,500 teachers in California who face layoffs. The federal legislation would also fund Medicaid programs serving approximately 7 million Californians.

The proposed federal legislation would prevent the layoffs of California workers, including

EducationNews.org - School to stay open on Jewish ‘High Holidays’

EducationNews.org - School to stay open on Jewish ‘High Holidays’

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Paying the price for cuts 8.9.10 - Class sizes have shot up and the school year has been shortened throughout San Diego County. Parents are stepping up efforts to stock classrooms by donating everything from flash drives to cleaning supplies. And in La Mesa and Spring Valley, teachers have been directed to cut pink erasers in half to stretch supplies. Many teachers still seek work as classes begin amid cutbacks 8.9.10 - Ioanna Panos is searching for a teaching job after her doctoral program at LSU was cut, but declining local tax collections and cuts in state and federal school aid have prompted school districts to trim positions, or add few, if any, new jobs. ... Schools spend millions on tutors with mixed track record 8.9.10 - With millions spent, Texas educators question benefits of federal law. School districts across Texas are paying tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for private tutoring that has a mixed track record of improving student test scores. ... State schools look to realign with nation 8.9.10 - A monumental shift is underway at Massachusetts schools as administrators and teachers prepare to revamp classroom lessons to reflect new national academic standards in English and math. The changes are the result of a decision last month by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, which voted to replace the state's homegrown standards, long considered among the nation's most ......

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An Interview with Professor Russell Eisenman: The Issues of Illegal Immigration and Education 8.9.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Ronald Reagan, hardly a liberal, had amnesty for illegal immigrants when he was President. I recall working at a California prison in 1988 and 1989 and having to explain to Mexican gang members how they could become U. S. citizens. I thought "This is crazy" but it was the law, as pushed by Reagan, a conservative Republican. An Interview with Rae Pica: Moving & Learning 8.9.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Moving & Learning offers services and books/curricula related to physical activity for children from birth to age 8. The company's mission is to ensure that movement is an integral part of children's lives and education! The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World 8.9.10 - They may have been dubbed the "Internet generation," but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend. In fact, many of them don't even know how to Google properly. Five More Questions Every Parent Should Ask 8.9.10 - RiShawn Biddle - On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast - a continuation of last week's podcast on Parent Power - RiShawn Biddle provides more questions for parents and other caregivers to ask in order to improve education for their kids.

Amid Metro brawl, family's night out turns into 'pandemonium'

Amid Metro brawl, family's night out turns into 'pandemonium'

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Metro passenger Chris Davis suffered a broken shin during the brawl Friday at L'Enfant Plaza Station. (Marvin Joseph/the Washington Post)

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It was bad enough when Kimberly Hay's family, riding the Metro to the Kennedy Center on Friday night to watch "Mary Poppins," saw three youths assault a terrified young rider reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" by aiming an aerosol can at his face and spraying.

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But the brawl they witnessed on the way home several hours later, which involved at least 70 youths fighting each other in a frenzy, left Hay's nieces "freaked out" and the 43-year-old wary of riding the Metro in off-peak hours.

More schools teach boys and girls separately

More schools are experimenting with single-sex education, but some say it's a troubling trend. Also in The Washington Post Magazine: The rise in childhood obesity prompts a gym class makeover.

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Students at D.C.'s Imagine Southeast Public Charter School are part of a new -- and debated -- national experiment in public schools: single-sex education (Katherine Frey/TWP).

Lesson Plan in Boston Schools: Don’t Go It Alone #Education News - The New York Times

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Lesson Plan in Boston Schools: Don’t Go It Alone

By MIKE WINERIP

Kelvin Ma for The New York Times

From left, Sylvia Yamamoto, Tulani Husband-Verbeek, Courtney Johnson, Lillian Pinet, Heather Gorman, Ben Rockoff, Lisa Goncalves and Ana Vaisenstein have been placed in Teach Plus-affiliated Boston schools.

Instead of principals hiring teachers individually, three schools have assembled teams of experienced teachers to anchor their schools and work with new teachers.

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‘Dora’ Special Explores Influence on Children

By ELIZABETH OLSON

A prime-time movie will be followed by a tribute to the educational and cultural influence of the program.

Little as They Try, Students Can’t Get a D Here

By WINNIE HU

Officials in the Mount Olive, N.J., school district adopted a standard allowing only A’s, B’s, C’s and F’s for students.

Scandal Haunts Atlanta’s School Chief

By SHAILA DEWAN

Beverly L. Hall has become a star in the education field, but that has not insulated her from a scandal that threatened to engulf two-thirds of the district’s schools.

For American Students, Life Lessons in the Mideast

By JENNIFER CONLIN

More college students are choosing Arabic-speaking countries for study-abroad programs, to experience the Mideast beyond America’s viewpoints.