Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

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Arne Duncan listens to Hillsborough teacher Amanda Newman during a round-table discussion.

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By SHERRI ACKERMAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 15, 2010

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TAMPA The education community is a lot like a family, Arne Duncan said.

The adults fight and the children lose.

"We have to professionalize education,'' said Duncan, the nation's education secretary, during a roundtable discussion Thursday at Tampa's Rampello Downtown Partnership School. "Hillsborough already is at the forefront of that

Education-Minded Business Group Backs Class-Size Amendment | Sunshine State News

Education-Minded Business Group Backs Class-Size Amendment | Sunshine State News

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BY: GRAY ROHRER | POSTED: OCTOBER 15, 2010 4:05 AM

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Education-supporting business groups are backing the class-size amendment that would soften caps on the number of children in each classroom.

The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations, an organization of business-backed groups that support education with offices in all 67 counties, announced Thursday that a survey of its members revealed 84 percent of them support Amendment 8.

“We do think that’s pretty significant,” Mary Chance, executive director of CFEF, said of the results.

The survey, conducted in August by Dewey & Associates, a St. Petersburg consulting firm, also focused

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The Christie administration’s efforts to promote privatization ran into significant opposition yesterday. The plan is viewed by some as a stealth proposal to privatize land-use permitting functions within the Department of Environmental Protection.

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McKeon told DEP officials he was concerned the proposal was put out as a RFP without any public discussion or debate, which he argued circumvented past procedures to review efforts to hand over some of the agency’s functions to the private sector.

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Far out! (Welcome to Denver’s Far Northeast) � Failing Schools

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Far out! (Welcome to Denver’s Far Northeast)

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Denver residents and other interested parties were treated on October 12th to a presentation of the Denver Public Schools proposal of what should happen with struggling schools in the zone currently known as the Far Northeast. This area includes the much maligned Montbello (sometimes hurtfully referred to as Montghetto) neighborhood as well as the area known as Green Valley Ranch. The area is relatively new as an urban zone (about 40 years for Montbello, slightly less for Green Valley Ranch) and primarily consists of single family homes and strip mall developments. In fact, it is a zone that was annexed long after the city was established and has long been ignored as a functioning part of the city. Some metro area residents are unaware that the neighborhoods actually are a part of the city of Denver. Economic status varies

Hiram Johnson High: Parents, Students Say Videos Show Fights A Daily Occurrence At Troubled Sacramento School - KTXL

Hiram Johnson High: Parents, Students Say Videos Show Fights A Daily Occurrence At Troubled Sacramento School - KTXL

Hiram Johnson High: Parents, Students Say Fights A Daily Occurrence At Troubled Sacramento School

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They say they're fed up with scenes like this- students fighting in the hallway satSacramento's Hiram Johnson High School. And some parents say nothing is being done to stop the violence, so they are protesting the punches being thrown on the way home from school.

"The school is responsible for their safety," said parent Martina Cruz-Rivas.

Another video shows hair pulling in a second floor hall.

"This fight actually goes on for several minutes," Rivas said.

There's a third video, showing students squaring off in a courtyard. Cruz-Rivas says all of these

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In terms of unadjusted state and local spending for education, California ranks 24th in the nation. But adjust spending to account for the regional cost of living, as Education Week does annually, and California’s per student spending falls to 46th in the nation. Which ranking you cite in debates with colleagues and around the dinner table [...]

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Because this study contains the word poverty, it will be wholly ignored by policymakers and pundits and the deformer crowd-- and its looking-for-a-gig poster girl, Michelle Rhee. There's more hay to be made in whipping up a frenzy than there is in judiciously looking at the facts. One of the facts is this:

Of course, none of that matters when your agenda is ideological--- when you're determined to

Rise & Shine: Judge finds city’s teacher investigation shoddy | GothamSchools

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• A judge gave a teacher his job back after finding the city botched its investigation. (Daily News, Post)
• The federal gov. is giving NYC organizations $12 million to spend on sex ed. programs. (NY1)
• City names a new Bronx campus after two firefighters who died in 2005. (Daily News)
• P.S. 119 grads meet 50 years later, marry, and give back to the school’s current students. (Daily News)
• Ocean Hill-Brownsville showed that demonizing teachers unions doesn’t work. (Daily News)
• Three Long Island students were arrested for beating up a classmates on the bus. (Wall Street Journal)
• Duncan and teachers union leaders announced plans for an edu summit. (Washington Post)
• D.C.’s new teachers contract will be wasted if the city doesn’t manage its talent. (NY Times)
• Rick Hess lists three lessons learned from Rhee and Fenty’s exit. (Daily News)
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My guest is Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author. By Marion Brady Ronald Reagan delivered some one-liner doozies, one of which is still a favorite of several members of Congress and talking heads on cable news: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ " It’s an interesting perspective, particularly when placed alongside another quote, one from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Those who had died on that battlefield, Lincoln said, contributed to a great cause-preserving "government of the people, by the people, for the people." A rational alien would assume, wrongly, that these two views of government came from two very different countries.

Michelle Rhee's exit: How former colleague Kerri Briggs sees it | THE EDUCATION FRONT Blog | dallasnews.com

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Michelle Rhee's exit: How former colleague Kerri Briggs sees it

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The Education Front turned to Kerri Briggs, the former state superintendent for D.C. schools, to get her take onuber-reformer Michelle Rhee's exit kerri s superintendent of D.C. schools. Briggs now lives and works in Dallas, where she will direct the George W. Bush Institute's program to train and recruit principals.
Briggs essentially held the same post that Robert Scott does as Texas education commissioner. While Rhee ran D.C. schools, Briggs and her office did federal grant work for D.C. schools. They oversaw the city's charter schools, which operate as their own districts. And they ran Washington's assessment and accountability system, among other responsibilities.
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Obama to visit USC next week - LA Daily News

Obama to visit USC next week - LA Daily News

Obama to visit USC next week

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Posted: 10/14/2010 04:27:16 PM PDT

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President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, before signing the Small Business Jobs Act. He spoke about education that morning on NBC's "Today" show. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama will speak to students at USC next week while he is in town on a fundraising visit.

According to the university, Obama will speak at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at McCarthy Quad near the Doheny Library — the site of past speeches by President Gerald R. Ford and then-candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.

His visit to the campus will be hosted by the USC Political Student