When President Barack Obama renewed the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanicstoday, he did it having in mind that many of those students are undocumented immigrants who find obstacles when trying to attend college, education officials said.
District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee speaks during a news conference October 13, 2010 at Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie has courted Michelle Rhee to become the state’s next education commissioner, but the job’s distance from her family may prove an insurmountable stumbling block, two officials familiar with the negotiations said.
When state officials initially approached Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools, she quickly turned back the overture, thinking the governor wanted her to make a lateral move and run the Newark Public Schools. Even Oprah Winfrey endorsed the possibility of Rhee becoming Newark’s next superintendent.
In fact, the Christie administration wanted Rhee to consider the vacant state education commissioner’s post, a more attractive offer to her because it signified a step up on the ladder of national education reform influence, according to sources who sought anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss confidential matters. But the state could not get Rhee “past the gate” because of frustration that a move to New Jersey would take her away from her family.
Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the governor, would not comment on the state's search for a new education commissioner.
Speaking on CNN earlier today, Rhee would not confirm
In his discussions with the Trip editors he took a common approach used by Chicago pols: speak jibberish.
Focusing on education, Rahm said he thought it would be good to take Arne Duncan’s Race to the Top idea and
Russo tweets that I jumped over the shark when I compared Michelle Rhee with Sarah Palin. Did I really doThe phrase "jump the shark" refers to the climactic scene in Happy Days in September 1977. In this story, the central characters visit Los Angeles, where Fonzie (Henry Winkler), wearing swimming trunks and his leather jacket, jumps over a confined shark on water skis, [Winkler--not the shark. m.k.] answering a challenge to demonstrate his bravery. --Wikipedia
Bernard Strickland, 10, and Jasmine Nazaire, 10, draw the bones of the hand during an art class at Discovery Charter School in Newark. Ten charter school operators have applied to open up a school in Newark.TRENTON — New Jersey's urban education sector could see a shakeup in the coming years, as more charter school operators continue to look to open schools in the state's cities.
Most of the 50 charter school applications received by the state Department of Education ask to open schools in urban areas, particularly Camden, Newark and Jersey City.
The list, released by the department today, shows Newark has attracted the most interest, with ten operators hoping to open charter schools there.
A small percentage of the applications also hope to open schools in suburban areas, including Montclair. The full list can be viewed here.
Currently, 73 charter schools serve 26,000 students in New Jersey, a group that accounts for 1.4 percent of the state's
Scores of parents and advocacy groups from across New York state converged on the State Capital yesterday in a zero hour attempt to persuade the Board of Regents to vote “no” on the adoption of an amendment to NYSED regulation CR-100.2(ee) which would allow local school districts to waive the provision of academic intervention services (AIS) for certain students that do not currently meet grade standards in math or ELA.
Under rules adopted in 2000, students that score Level 1 or 2 on state exams are entitled to receive AIS. However, as a result of the recent test score recalibration, the amendment will allow districts the sole discretion to exempt students from these services if they would have
See also Class Size Matters' Comments to SUNY board on the application of Success Academy charter in District 3 (pdf) and Comments to SUNY board on the application of the Bronx Success Academy charter in District 7 (pdf)
Firstly, elementary school overcrowding has become endemic to District 3 and there is no room for the co-location of Success Charter school without increasing this already dire situation. Overcrowding predominates in the Southern portion of the district and given the level of new development in Harlem, such overcrowding is moving uptown. Unfortunately, SCA and DOE projections have continually underestimated this enrollment growth - and overestimated existing capacity - leading to increased
Robert Bobb's name was floated around a couple of weeks ago as a candidate for the soon to be vacant position of School Chancellor for the D.C. public school system. Mr. Bobb is currently the Emergency Financial Officer of the Detroit Public School System.
I could see this as a possibility, Robert Bobb becoming D.C.'s School Chancellor, not because he deserves it, but because Eli Broad owes him a favor.
Robert Bobb was the City Manager of Oakland, California until he completed the Broad Superintendent's training in 2005. That led soon after to Bobb becoming president of the school board in Washington, D.C. In 2007 Eli Broad
