March 30, 2011
PROVIDENCE, R.I.–Gov. Lincoln Chafee on Wednesday toured a Providence charter school serving mostly lower-income students to promote his call for increased school funding. Chafee also visited a school in Westerly before holding a news conference at the University of Rhode Island. The tour was done to highlight Chafee’s proposal to spend more on public schools […]
March 30, 2011
Secretary Arne Duncan and ED’s Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Alexa Posny, stopped by Beers Elementary School in Washington, DC yesterday to get a close-up look at one school that is successfully integrating students with disabilities into the school culture. Beers Elementary is one of 16 public schools in the District of […]
March 30, 2011
Kentucky House lawmakers were closely guarding details of a plan Friday to shore up finances in a government program that provides medical care for more than 800,000 of the state’s poor, elderly and disabled residents. Republican Leader Jeff Hoover said a keystone of the plan is that it will not raid public school funding. Hoover […]
March 30, 2011
After being pilloried for weeks in advertisements from the city’s teachers’ union accusing him of threatening to fire teachers, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg hit back on Tuesday by using a familiar tactic: paying for his own campaign-style advertisement. The ad war comes at a time when Mr. Bloomberg and the United Federation of Teachers have […]
March 30, 2011
Last week education committees in both the Minnesota House and Senate approved legislation that will deal devastating blows to city schools by divesting state support for low-income learners — while simultaneously raising property taxes in our three cities. Why would the Legislature turn its back on its population centers? We have the potential to produce […]
March 30, 2011
After two months of controversy, the Compton school board Tuesday rejected a petition by parents aiming to use a groundbreaking state law to turn over their struggling elementary school to a charter operator. Board members with the Compton Unified School District voted unanimously, 7-0, to return the petition to parents at McKinley Elementary , saying […]
March 30, 2011
A group of Connecticut parents and lawmakers are requesting changes in the way school districts draw up education plans for students with spec ial needs. The legislature’s education committee heard testimony Monday on a bill to give parents more input in the early stages of creating Individualized Education Programs (IEP). Federal law mandates those plans […]
March 30, 2011
Nearly 500 San Francisco teachers, aides and administrators will find pink slips in their mailboxes w ithin the next two weeks as the school board works to backfill an estimated $27 million shortfall if the state’s worst-case budget scenario pans out later this year. If the layoffs hold, class sizes would go up and overall […]
March 30, 2011
When the final bell rings here at Kingsley Elementary School, half its 500 students leave, many joining the estimated one-quarter of all children across California who take care of themselves after school. For those at Kingsley that stay on campus, half, though supervised, must occupy themselves while they remain on school grounds. But the 100 […]
March 30, 2011
Following a grueling collective bargaining session, the Madison School Board agreed Saturday to extend its employee union contracts through mid-2013. Superintendent Dan Nerad said the agreement achieved all of the district’s major goals in bargaining with Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI) over benefits and workplace rules. Under a new law signed Friday by Gov. Scott Walker, […]