October 27, 2010
The city could face even more legal trouble from teachers over the controversial effectiveness ratings, union officials told the Daily News. If the ratings are released to the public despite a pending teachers union lawsuit, the city could get slapped with suits by hundreds of teachers who have called a union hotline to report errors, […]
October 27, 2010
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell held a news conference today with parents at risk of losing their jobs, to criticize Governor Schwarzenegger’s line-item veto of funding for child care services to help struggling parents who have successfully left welfare and are gainfully employed. O’Connell noted that the Governor’s veto earlier this month of […]
October 27, 2010
Faced with dropping enrollment and revenue, the high school in this remote Maine town has fixed on an unlikely source of salvation: Chinese teenagers. Never mind that Millinocket is an hour’s drive from the nearest mall or movie theater, or that it gets an average 93 inches of snow a year. Kenneth Smith, the schools […]
October 27, 2010
The Rochester school district has a disproportionately high number of special education students. With 6,271 or nearly 19 percent of its 33,226 students classified as special ed, Rochester has the highest percentage of any district in the state. And the overwhelming majority of these students are black or Hispanic. Research shows that black and Hispanic […]
October 26, 2010
The new state budget looks like one that would make California school officials happy. State legislators restored $1.7 billion to schools, cut by the governor in his May budget revision. But lawmakers deferred payment until next July, and education leaders – weary from years of cuts – don’t trust t hat the money will make […]
October 26, 2010
In a 10-page letter to be sent on Tuesday to thousands of school districts and colleges, the Department of Education urges the nation’s educators to ensure that they are complying with their responsibilities to prevent harassment, as laid out in federal laws. The letter is the product of a yearlong review of the federal statutes […]
October 26, 2010
What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in the states with the most rigorous assessments, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states […]
October 26, 2010
Money for schools—how to spend it, or make do without it—has emerged as a major issue in federal and state elections this fall, with voters going to the polls Nov. 2 in contests that could bring new party majorities to Congress and to many state capitals. State governments have seen a major infusion of federal […]
October 26, 2010
Delaware’s public school students scored about the same this year as last in social studies and science on Delaware Student Testing Program assessments, the state Department of Education announced Monday. Overall, about 60 percent of eighth-graders and about 57 percent of 11th-graders scored proficient in science. In social studies, about 57 percent of eighth-graders and […]
October 26, 2010
Gov. Ed Rendell’s veto last week of a multi-faceted education bill struck Senate Education Committee Chairman Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin County, as an example of his administration’s “all-consuming hatred of charter schools.” But Rendell said on Monday, “nothing could be further from the truth.” He said he vetoed the bill because it contained an unconstitutional provision […]