"Many charter operators are rebelling against a provision in the initiative that requires them to give enrollment preference to students within each school's attendance boundaries." (Policy skirmishing puts LAUSD reform at risk LA Times)
[...]"Many charter operators are rebelling against a provision in the initiative that requires them to give enrollment preference to students within each school's attendance boundaries." (Policy skirmishing puts LAUSD reform at risk LA Times)
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"My daughter writes this book every weekday morning; every afternoon it unravels with stories of strange snacks and funny boys who do the boy-ey-est things." (Three Weeks In - Sweet Juniper)
[...]Click below to see what the White House says the trip to Madison is all about - a revealing little peek into what they think is going on (and hope that you will think, too).
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 4, 2009
BACKGROUND ON THE PRESIDENT’S TRIP TO [...]
Mike Lach, longtime science curriculum guru at the Chicago Public Schools, is heading to DC to work on STEM issues.
Watch out, DC.
Congrats, condolences.
Lach is the most recent of several Chicago education insiders who have flown the coop since Arne Duncan left and Ron [...]
On August 17 of this year, Diana Senchal got inspired by a Diane Ravitch commentary about how easy it had become to pass some of the state assessments used to promote students from one grade to another and a NY Daily News story on the same topic. [...]
Back in the day when teachers took roll by scan sheets and we quickly received printouts of the reasons for absences (cutting, medical, bereavement, legal, etc.) that data was far more valuable than all of the test score and benchmark statistics of today. Not wanting to [...]
The well-regarded Karen Cator is coming in from Apple to head the USDE's ed tech efforts. We'll try not to hold her previous place of employment against her. (Hey, at least she's not from Google.) And it's been too long since there was some good edtech' [...]
Education Department said Massachusetts did not break stimulus rules AP
The
department's inspector general had singled out Massachusetts and two
other states, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, for using stimulus dollars
to plug budget holes instead of boosting aid for schools.
Obama coaxes states to change with school dollars AP
Obama
is visiting Wisconsin, where lawmakers are poised to change a law to
boost their state's chances at $5 billion in education grants, the most
money a president has ever had for overhauling [...]
Alexander Russo, john thompson, Marc Dean Millot, Cheryl Sattler
