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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, September 29, 2006
Escape Hatch for Incompetent Teachers Closed
Governor signs a bill that will let some principals to reject poor instructors seeking a transfer to their schools.
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Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, September 28, 2006
House Panel Studies Ways to Boost Tutoring Under NCLB By David J. Hoff/Ed Week
With fewer than a fifth of eligible students taking advantage of federally financed tutoring and afterschool programs, policymakers here have begun exploring options for expanding the reach of those services. At […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Political Shift Could Temper NCLB Resolve If Democrats Take House or Senate, Uncertainty Ahead By Alyson Klein/Ed Week
The two top Democratic lawmakers on education policy have signaled that if their party regains control of one or both houses of Congress in November, they will […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Bill to let schools land good teachers
By Deepa Ranganathan/Sacramento Bee
It can take years to fire a bad teacher. So some principals don’t even bother trying. Instead, they make a deal. The […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, September 25, 2006
The New High School Class: Seniors Who Must Retake Exit Exam Kathryn Baron/California Report
For the first time ever, California’s high schools have a new class of students — the previous year’s seniors who did not pass the California High School Exit Exam.
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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, September 22, 2006
Report Calls for Improvement in K-8 Science Education By Valerie Strauss/Washington Post Staff Writer
A report released yesterday by a committee on science education says K-8 classes are in "urgent need" of improvement, just as schools must for the first […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, September 21, 2006
Academic standards bill vetoed Governor refuses to lower criteria for complying with No Child Left Behind law. By Jim Sanders/Sacramento Bee
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation Wednesday that proposed an instant fix for students failing to meet California’s standard for […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, September 20, 2006
As AYP Bar Rises, More Schools Fail Percent missing NCLB goals climbs amid greater testing. By Lynn Olson/Ed Week
The proportion of public schools meeting their prescribed achievement targets under the No Child Left Behind Act appears to have fallen slightly in the 2005-06 school […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Gov. Signs Mayor’s Dream Into Law In a bill-signing ceremony at the Central Library, Villaraigosa fulfills a hard-fought goal: gaining clout over the city’s public schools. By Duke Helfand and Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger handed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa a much-anticipated prize […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, September 18, 2006
Law firm targeting schools on vital data State-Required Report are not always at hand, firm’s survey says By Luis Zaragoza/San Jose Mercury News
Behind the front counter of every public school in California is what amounts to a campus user’s manual — a printed summary […]