By kcaskins | May 19, 2011 at 8:10 am | No comments
At the behest of Gov. Bobby Jindal, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been talking up White's credentials in calls to potential swing votes on the state board of education , which must elect a new state superintendent with at ...
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By kcaskins | May 18, 2011 at 12:13 pm | No comments
With the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit kicking off this evening, I thought I'd do an overview of the state of K-12 education philanthropy. I'm warning you now, friends: This is gonna get wonky! But stick with me and I promise you'll ...
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By kcaskins | May 18, 2011 at 12:12 pm | No comments
With the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit kicking off this evening, I thought I'd do an overview of the state of K-12 education philanthropy. I'm warning you now, friends: This is gonna get wonky! But stick with me and I promise...
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By Jason | May 16, 2011 at 7:04 pm | No comments
King is a former charter school leader who served as Steiner's senior deputy education commissioner. During his tenure in the state Education Department, the number of charter schools in the state has more than doubled and teachers ...
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By kcaskins | May 15, 2011 at 10:18 pm | No comments
Most parents in Australia's Queensland support school-based sex education , a new survey released Monday by a leading provider of sexual and reproductive health services in the state found.
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By Jason | May 14, 2011 at 12:19 pm | No comments
Andrew Cuomo made some waves on Friday saying he wants revisions to the upcoming plans for overhauling the state system of Teacher Evaluation. Here is the plan as it currently exists.
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By Jason | May 14, 2011 at 4:34 am | No comments
Question by Vivian D: Can a teacher collect unemployment during the summer vacation if she owns her own bussiness?
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By kcaskins | May 14, 2011 at 4:33 am | No comments
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Thousands of California teachers rallied in cities throughout the state Friday to demonstrate against the threat of deep education cuts and to appeal to Republican lawmakers to raise tax revenue for public schools.
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By Jason | May 14, 2011 at 12:28 am | No comments
So in Cuomo's evaluation system, the only way a teacher gets a positive rating is if s/he receives a combined positive rating on both classroom observations and other "subjective" measures and the "objective" measure of the state ...
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By Jason | May 13, 2011 at 3:29 pm | No comments
Chris Christie of New Jersey, a Republican, has nominated a former Princeton University administrator as the state's first secretary of higher education , according to the Associated Press. If confirmed by the state Senate, ...
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