Chicago Public Schools Touts Expansion of Charter Program
Source: Education News
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 15:23:55 -0700 | education-news
Charter schools in Chicago appear to be a success, so Chicago Public Schools has plans to create an additional 60 charter schools over the next five years. On completion of the program privately run charter schools will account for almost...
State, Local Officials Tangle Over Charter School Primacy
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 12:34:32 -0700 | education-news
Florida, Georgia, and New Jersey have been the scene of debates this year over whether state or local authorities should have the final say on allowing charter schools within a particular district's boundaries, and over the standards for judging the...
NC lawmakers mull how much schools should pay back
Source: Education Week
Raleigh :: NC :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 12:34:31 -0700 | education-news
N.C. (AP) Some House Republicans would like to slash by more than half the amount North Carolina public school districts will be required to return to the state next year, but it's unclear whether they'll have enough money to do...
UK Government Wants to Deregulate Teacher Pay
Source: Education News
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2012-05-22 16:29:22 -0700 | education-news
UK government ministers are reportedly considering plans for a complete deregulation of salaries within public education . The aim is to give schools the power to refuse pay rises for failing teachers. Graeme Paton of the Telegraph reports that the...
Homeland Security Expands STEM Designated Student Visa List
Source: Education News
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 11:40:53 -0700 | education-news
The increase is an expansion of eligible subject areas to include pharmaceutical sciences, quantitative economics and behavioral sciences, amongst many others...The expansion of the program is a continuation of efforts by the department to attract international students.
ACLU : W.Va. counties' single-sex classes illegal
Source: Education Week
Charleston :: SC :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 11:16:51 -0700 | education-news
W.Va. (AP) The American Civil Liberties Union has asked three county school systems in West Virginia to stop placing students in single-gender classes. Monday to school officials in Cabell, Kanawha and Wood counties, saying single-gender classes violate numerous provisions of...
Pa. school groups' survey sees grimmer finances
Source: Education Week
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 11:16:51 -0700 | education-news
Pa. (AP) A survey of more than half of Pennsylvania's school districts shows more expect their finances to worsen next year even as they cut instructional programs and personnel in numbers unheard of since the Great Depression, according to the...
Fuel Up to Play 60 Accepting Grant Apps Until June
Source: Education News
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 10:49:32 -0700 | education-news
Several times a year Fuel Up to Play 60 , a free school nutrition and physical activity program, invites participating schools to apply for up to $4,000 in grant money to offset the cost of bringing the full benefits of...
Study: Most ELLs Are in Districts That Fall Short on Federal Goals
Source: Education Week
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 10:23:31 -0700 | education-news
Maxwell Most English-language learners were enrolled in school districts that failed to reach all their accountability goals for such students in the 2008-09 school year, according to a national evaluation of the federal program that supports services for English-language acquisition....
Groups Urge Balance Between Censoring, Stopping Bullies
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 08:37:26 -0700 | education-news
The new guidelines shared today were produced by the American Jewish Committee and the Religious Freedom Education Project/First Amendment Center , both based in Washington, and they say that schools must not censor students' speech purely out of the fear...
T-shirt flap bars 20 W.Va. seniors from graduation
Source: Education Week
Charleston :: SC :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 06:40:38 -0700 | education-news
W.Va. (AP) More than 20 Charleston high school seniors were banned from participating in their graduation Monday after they defied their principal's repeated orders not to wear a T-shirt that he disliked. It wasn't that the T-shirts contained inappropriate language....
Minn. tests alternative to No Child Left Behind
Source: Education Week
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | updated 2012-05-22 06:40:37 -0700 | education-news
Minnesota recognized 127 schools Tuesday for their good work in closing achievement gaps and designated 127 others as needing extra help for developing turnaround plans. The Minnesota Department of Education released the first set of school ratings under a new...
Arizona Leading the Way on Equal Rights Reform
Source: Education News
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2012-05-21 14:49:50 -0700 | education-news
Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world's most popular websites...Despite liberal fears, Arizona has not become a biased state that prohibits the success of minorities since the passage of Proposition 107 banned public equal...
Teens help older people learn Web skills
Source: Education Week
Sheffield :: AL :: USA | updated 2012-05-21 14:13:26 -0700 | education-news
Ala. (AP) At 91 years old, Pauline Foster said there's not much that frightens her anymore, including technology. Some years ago, her son gave her a computer and encouraged her to learn how to use it...That changed when her physician...
Did Federal Aid Break the Education Market?
Source: Education News
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2012-05-21 13:20:11 -0700 | education-news
George Leef reminds us of the Bennett Hypothesis and its recent modern update: that federal aid leads to greedy colleges and increased tuition for all. George Leef, writing for The John William Pope Center For Higher Education Policy, contends that...
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