November 22, 2010
Atlanta Schools Supt. Beverly Hall today bowed to calls for her to step down following a standardized-testing scandal, saying she would not return next school year. A statement from her office said that Hall, who has been superintendent for 11 years, had notified school board members that she won’t seek another contract when her current […]
November 22, 2010
Indiana’s move toward a school-funding program in which dollars follow students has come as the dollars have diminished. But the state’s system for funding schools now more closely mirrors neighboring states such as Michigan and Illinois, where voters have up-or-down votes on school funding. For years, those states and about 40 others have assured public […]
November 22, 2010
Oregon classrooms will finish out the calendar year with no new cuts, based on the latest state economic forecast released Friday. The state brought in about $100 million more than projected in September. It’s the first quarterly forecast in two years that didn’t send school officials scrambling to plan for lower revenues and possible cuts. […]
November 22, 2010
North Carolina could lose more than 5,300 teachers and all public school classes would be larger under a proposal for education cuts prepared for Gov. Bev Perdue’s budget office. The state Department of Public Instruction was the first large state agency to release its budget cut proposal in response to a request by The News […]
November 22, 2010
On the eve of a Board of Education meeting in February where the death knell was to sound for five schools, Ron Huberman, the chief executive of Chicago Public Schools, granted an 11th-hour reprieve. The low enrollment and poor academic record at Paderewski Elementary had made the South Side school a target for closing, and […]
November 22, 2010
The one commonality educators have regarding online schools, particularly cyber charter schools, is a passionate opinion about their contribution to American education. The politics and turf war between traditional (also known as brick-and-mortar) and online schools have made it difficult to collect public, non-partisan data on virtual charter schools and online education in general. Currently, […]
November 19, 2010
Philadelphia School District officials say the district’s expanded summer-school program helped a record number of students improve their academic performance. Nearly 60,000 students from prekindergarten through high school – nearly twice as many as in 2009 – attended summer classes this year to improve their reading, math, and language skills. David Weiner, associate superintendent for […]
November 19, 2010
The state Board of Education Thursday adopted English and math standards that Alabama will share with at least 40 other states, allowing the states to compare their students’ performance. After hearing comments from 40 people in the audience — 18 who supported the initiative and 22 who opposed it — the board voted 7-2, […]
November 19, 2010
“Ouch.” The pain expressed by Sheila Moulton, a Clark County School Board member, followed the surprise revelation of a projected $180 million deficit in the coming school year. That’s 9 percent of the district’s $2 billion budget. The deficit could lead to 2,000 or more layoffs because the district doesn’t have the leeway under union […]
November 19, 2010
Houston school district officials are debating whether to make it easier for students to be promoted to the next grade level, reversing a decade-old policy touted as one of the toughest in Texas. A draft proposal from Superintendent Terry Grier’s administration, delivered to the school board Thursday, suggests that students should no longer be automatically […]