December 10, 2010
Washington’s school districts won’t be seeing any extra funding for special education programs anytime soon. The state Supreme Court ruled on the School Districts’ Alliance for Adequate Funding of Special Education v. State on Thursday, deciding in an 8-1 vote that the alliance did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the state under funds […]
December 10, 2010
A plan to create a new charter school in New Bedford received a strong show of support at a public hearing Wednesday afternoon as many people argued that the school would offer a much-needed educational option for parents and students. Mayor Scott W. Lang, however, said he could not support opening another charter school in […]
December 10, 2010
Roosevelt Elementary School third-grader Caroline Taylor enjoys going to the school library to read books. But she’s not able to do that as much these days because school budget cuts have reduced library hours. "I don’t like that I can’t go to the library at lunch and recess anymore," the 8-year-old said. "It kind of […]
December 10, 2010
It isn’t often that a third of a movie audience sticks around to discuss its message, but that is the effect of “Race to Nowhere,” a look at the downside of childhoods spent on résumé-building. “How do you help your children balance when the whole education system is pushing, pushing, pushing, and you want your […]
December 10, 2010
A struggling nonprofit that runs 15 Los Angeles charter schools announced Thursday it had secured $10.5 million in donations that will enable it to remain open. ICEF Public Schools operates 15 schools in south and southwest Los Angeles, with a clientele that is largely African American and a mix of low- and middle-income families. Former […]
December 10, 2010
It was almost lunch time on the day before Thanksgiving break, but Gustavo Corrales, a math teacher, was not ready to let his students out the door at the San Juan campus of IDEA Public Schools, a network of charter schools in the Rio Grande Valley. “I’m not going to pass you if you don’t […]
December 10, 2010
Data released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education on the $3.5 billion School Improvement Grant program show that the federal turnaround grants haven’t just gone to schools in urban areas, or for less-drastic school improvement efforts. The school improvement program was developed under the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, to help schools […]
December 10, 2010
With a hard-hitting speech that branded the city’s teachers union as an unyielding obstruction to education reforms, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa set the stage this week for a new battle over control of the troubled Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest. In a Sacramento address to state leaders, Villaraigosa — himself a longtime teachers […]
December 9, 2010
If all that schools had to worry about these days was setting common standards for the curriculum and agreeing on how to measure student progress and teacher effectiveness, our national educational picture would be downright rosy. But add in the social problems that are increasingly challenging students and the shortage of school social workers — […]
December 9, 2010
Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said Wednesday that the district is bracing for the Texas Legislature to cut $4 billion in school funding over the next two years to reduce the state’s multibillion-dollar deficit. In a meeting with members of The Dallas Morning News editorial board, Hinojosa said a reduction that high could cost the […]