January 13, 2011
Los Angeles school district leaders announced Wednesday that they will split low-performing Jordan High School into three small schools that will be run by outside groups. All current employees will have to reapply for their jobs or work elsewhere. It marks the second time the Los Angeles Unified School District has targeted a campus for […]
January 13, 2011
Educating students with disabilities—a federally mandated responsibility—is seen as one of the costliest services school districts must provide, and one of the last that can be cut. The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act provides a set of protections for 6.6 million students—about 13 percent of total student enrollment—who have dyslexia, autism, intellectual disabilities, blindness, […]
January 13, 2011
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback says his proposed budget won’t replace all of the federal stimulus funds for public schools that the state expects will disappear after July 1, and he acknowledges that their base state aid per student could drop for the next school year. Brownback told legislators Wednesday night during his State of the […]
January 13, 2011
Public schools chief Tom Luna outlined an aggressive overhaul in education reform as he called Wednesday for more technology in the classroom and a pay-for-performance plan for educators. Luna detailed his proposal for lawmakers on the House and Senate education committees, and he infuriated the Idaho teachers union by proposing increased class sizes to help […]
January 12, 2011
Detroit Public Schools would close nearly half of its schools in the next two years, and increase high school class sizes to 62 by the following year, under a deficit-reduction plan filed with the state. The plan, part of a monthly update Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb gives the Department of Education, was filed late […]
January 12, 2011
Gov. Rendell urged his successor Tuesday to not cut education spending in the state’s next budget, and came out against a proposed voucher program that would help low-income students from low-performing schools attend either private schools or public schools in other districts. After touting Pennsylvania’s top-10 national ranking in a report released Tuesday by Education […]
January 12, 2011
Financial support for education will likely be a cornerstone of debate during the coming session of the Legislature, and educators from around the state have been meeting with business leaders to ensure each camp is invested in the symbiosis of their goals. At the "Nevada 2.0: New Economies for a Sustainable Future" conference held Friday […]
January 12, 2011
Gov. Mitch Daniels wants a major revamp for Indiana’s education system and he wants state lawmakers to act right away. Daniels used about half of his 30-minute State of the State speech Tuesday night to promote his education proposals, including an expansion of charter schools, vouchers to help parents send their children to private schools […]
January 12, 2011
Sixty children in a first-grade class can get loud — sometimes too loud for a teacher to explain a lesson. So while waiting for her teacher to come by, one little girl arranged the pennies she had been given to practice subtraction into a smiley face. Another shook her pennies in a plastic bag. A […]
January 12, 2011
The school superintendent in North Carolina’s largest city is recommending the elimination of more than 1,500 jobs to deal with a huge budget shortfall. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman on Tuesday recommended cutting hundreds of teachers and assistants to deal with an expected $100 million budget shortfall. Gorman also proposed making the school day longer […]