March 30, 2011
More than 80,000 of the nation’s 100,000 public schools could be labeled as failing under No Child Left Behind, the main federal law on public education, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Congress on Wednesday. Mr. Duncan said the estimate, based on an analysis of testing trends and the workings of the law’s pass-fail school […]
March 30, 2011
WASHINGTON — President Obama called on Monday for an overhaul of education legislation enacted in the Bush administration, telling an audience of teachers and students that Congress should change the No Child Left Behind Act before the start of the next school year. “I want every child in the country to head back to school […]
March 30, 2011
Two lawmakers with a lot of experience and expertise on K-12 issues—U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo.—have teamed up to introduce a bill that seeks to make better sense of the maze of federal and state K-12 regulations and the intersection between the two. State and federal regulations often crisscross in strange […]
March 30, 2011
Services to be expanded in six schools across the city including Tremé, Central City, Mid-City, East Carrollton, N.O. East (Michoud neighborhood) and Algiers School Health Connection (SHC), an affiliated program of the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI), has received a $4 million grant from The W.K. Kellogg Foundation designed to help increase access to physical […]
March 30, 2011
LINCOLN—Regional superintendents and supporters of regional offices of education, in conjunction with the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools met at the state Capitol Thursday for a news conference to not only make a strong case for why Gov . Quinn should not cut funding for the offices and their elected regional superintendents, but […]
March 30, 2011
In an effort to balance the budget, school districts across Texas have begun sending out legally mandated notices of potential layoffs to teachers and staff. According to chron.com, the notifications are being sent out right now to meet the state law requirement that educators have at least a 45-day notice that they are not guaranteed […]
March 30, 2011
Students, parents, teachers and administrators agree the system used to fund Ohio’s public schools is broken. "School funding is flawed, in my opinion, statewide," said Malcom Fowlkes, former principal of George Washington Carver Preparatory Academy, which closed June 3. Fowlkes said there is a disparity between the funding for charter schools and traditional schools. "Some […]
March 30, 2011
How about a cheese sandwich? In some parts of the country, that may be the only option for public school students unable to afford school lunches. With budget cuts and a down economy, many school districts are offering bare-bones "alternative" lunches as a way to balance their budget. The Lee County, Flordia school district – […]
March 30, 2011
For the past three years, lawmakers have spent the waning hours of the legislative session fighting over how to fund charter schools. This year’s session may bring another battle. With less than two weeks before the session ends, Republican lawmakers are gearing up aga in to try to change the way charter schools are funded, […]
March 30, 2011
It takes an average of nine months to go through the process of getting rid of an ineffective teacher, and the head of a state union that represents school employees says that’s too long. "That’s not fair to anybody," said David Hecker, president of the American Federation of Teachers-Michigan. "It’s not fair to the school […]