The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education (Landmarks in Civil Rights History)
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- With the Texas State Board of Education's approval of all-new Texas reading and literature programs from McGraw-Hill School Education Group, Texas teachers will now have an unprecedented ability to differentiate instruction and provide students with a vertically aligned K-12 program.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The Huron Valley Schools Board of Education couldn't decide Monday on a person to fill a seat vacated by Jennifer Beam, who resigned Nov. 13.
Pasadena Events Calendar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dear Community Member, I am writing to you on behalf of the Board of Education with appreciation for your ongoing support for the students of the Pasadena Unified School District. I continue to see more parents and partners stepping up to assist our students with mentoring, internships, tutoring, scholarships and more. We are in unprecedented times. Our [...]
Madville Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
When I chatted with her at Prairie Village three months ago, Tammy Jo Zingmark made it sound like it would take an act of Congress to get the Madison Central School Board to start a blog. Blogging Watertown school board member Fred Deutsch shows that school-board blogging is really quite simple and instructive. This morning he points to another school board...
Slap Upside The Head (Free subscription) | yesterday
Good news coming out of Chilliwack, British Columbia. The Chilliwack Board of Education has voted to update their bullying and harassment policies to directly address the homophobic bullying that has been making life very difficult for gay students there. Great news, marred only by two trustees that actually opposed the anti-bullying measure: Heather Maahs and Martha [...]
I Thought a Think (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
The Race to the Top: With the lull between budget announcements and Legislative Assembly Days, most of the blog chatter this past week has been looking at how Washington State measures up in the federal Dash for the Cash Race to the Top grant program. The League of "Education" Voters has done a 6 part series on their blog that's worth your time to read; also with several blog posts...
Politics on the Hudson (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Yonkers Councilman John Murtagh, R-5th District, issued a statement today rejecting suggestions by the Yonkers Board of Education’s attorney that he may be committing criminal coercion by refusing to support bonding for the schools unless the Board of Education opens its books to Yonkers Inspector General Philip Zisman. The IG dispute led the Board of Education...
The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
With Albert Alteri resigning his seat on the Utica City School District Board of Education, the board will now be tasked with how to fill the vacancy.
News Channel 9: Local News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
It looks like Liverpool teachers are getting the raise they wanted tonight after the board of education voted against it last week. Under a three year proposal approved by the...
The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
After a year and a half on the Utica Board of Education, Albert Alteri is resigning, effective Jan. 1.
The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Albert Alteri, a retired Utica City Court judge, is resigning his seat on the Utica City School District Board of Education effective Jan. 1 after a year and a half in the position.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
CHICAGO - Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A+' rating to the Chicago Board of Education, Illinois' (the board) $254,240,000 unlimited tax general obligation (UTGO) bonds (dedicated revenues), series 2009G (Qualified School Construction Bonds)(QSCBs). The bonds are scheduled for negotiated sale
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
At their meeting yesterday, their first since the death of board president Michael Scott, the Chicago Public Schools Board of Education moved forward with business, approving five new charter schools that will open across the next two school years. CPS had originally proposed six but withdrew one: the Chicago International Charter School. Opening in 2010 : Noble Street Charter...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
It was hard to ignore the empty seat at today's Board of Education meeting. Normally it would have been filled by Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott, who died a week ago of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head. Instead, his vacant chair was draped in folds of purple and black fabric while a glass vase of yellow and white flowers adorned his desk. To...
The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" might be okay in Maplewood-South Orange schools. But "Silent Night" and "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" are still out. A board of education policy that prohibits celebratory religious music in district schools was upheld today...
