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Schools Matter (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Grover Norquist, whose Center for Tax Reform is prominent among the organizational supporters of Michelle Rhee's Reign of Terror in DC , is also famous for saying, “My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” In Los Angeles, corporate reformers are doing just that, beginning with the public schools....
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Public School Graduates and Dropouts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2006-07 Source: National Center for Education Statistics This First Look report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and dropout data for grades 9 through 12 for public schools during the 2006-07 school year. State...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
ANDERSON TWP. - Isabella Randolph, an eighth-grader at Guardian Angels School, has already shadowed a student at St. Ursula Academy and plans to shadow another at McNicholas High School. But Thursday was shadow day at her public high school, Turpin.
Why Homeschool (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Phony Funding Crisis has some good data showing that the problem with government schools is not a lack of money. The article is a bit long, but worth reading. This gives a sense of the tone of the article: --------- For a variety of reasons, from one year to the next, schools almost always have more real revenue for each of their enrolled students. For the past hundred...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Cricket Association’s inter-schools tournament will be held at ACA Mangalagiri stadium and JKC College grounds at Guntur from November 10 in which 13 teams from three zones will compete, according ACA president ...
The Enterprise Ledger (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Enterprise City Schools Superintendent Jim Reese called school board members together Thursday in a special-called meeting to address the financial state of the system and answer some criticism from the public regarding the new high school under construction.
Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
in support of Charter Schools a few thousand people gathered in Atlanta to rally. Four school districts have filed a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the Charter School Commission. The public school systems really aren’t concerned about the constitutionality of it. They are concerned that the money that props up their [...]
West Seattle Blog... (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
By Tracy Record West Seattle Blog editor “You’re taking something that’s actually working and breaking it.” That critique of the latest proposed Seattle Public Schools attendance-area maps came from one of the two dozen-plus people who attended School Board rep Steve Sundquist’s community meeting Saturday afternoon at High Point Library....
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
A proposal before Massachusetts lawmakers aimed at protecting students who voice religious views at public schools is being assailed by advocates of separation of church and state, who say it forces religion on people.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Pointed questions about school quality dominated a meeting Saturday at Rainier Beach High School, the second-to-last public meeting on the boundaries that soon will govern where Seattle students go to school.
icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday
PUBLIC schools must come forward with proposals to help Wales’ most vulnerable children to justify their charitable status, Labour leadership candidate Huw Lewis said yesterday.
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | yesterday
In recent months, the federal government has made it perfectly clear that one of its key education reform goals is to turn around the nation’s chronically underperforming schools. In fact, President Obama pledged to devote billions of dollars to fund a federal school turnaround program which would close 5,000 of the lowest performing schools in the next five...
Wash Park Prophet (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A new school board is about to take office in the Denver Public Schools and the transitional item , finished by the last board, but subject to review by the new school board, will be how to deal with six troubled schools, three neighborhood schools and three charter schools. Those schools are: Lake...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Parents admit their children to schools like Baldwin's, Bishop Cotton's, Frank Anthony Public School, National Public School without worry, given their good reputation.
West Seattle Blog... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tomorrow afternoon, when West Seattle’s School Board rep Steve Sundquist hosts a community chat at High Point Library (1-2:30 pm), a group plans to bring that graphic to his attention. It’s a mashup of Seattle Public Schools‘ newly revised attendance-area maps for West Seattle with data from the U.S. Census and other sources. The group, [...]
