Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, January 31, 2008
Leaving NCLB behind
By John Fensterwald/San Jose Mercury News
In this State of the Union address, President Bush called on Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act. “It is succeeding,” Bush said. “And we owe it to America’s children, their parents, and their teachers […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Bush calls for NCLB renewal, ‘Pell Grants for Kids’
By Alyson Klein and David J. Hoff/Ed Week
President Bush used his final State of the Union address to once again call on Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act. But the one concrete idea he […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Learn from N.Y.’s mistake
Blog by John Fensterwald/San Jose Mercury News
The mistrust in New York City created by a research experiment using data teachers underscores how important it is for California to be open and clear in designing its state educational data system. All […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, January 28, 2008
Civil rights coalition calls for higher graduation rates, more accurate statistics
By Nanette Light/La Prensa San Diego
While Congress considers renewing the No Child Left Behind Act, a coalition of civil rights groups is pressing for higher graduation rates. A briefing on the subject […]
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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, January 25, 2008
Sparring continues over NCLB legal ruling
By David J. Hoff and Mark Walsh/Ed Week
A court ruling that revived a major legal challenge to the No Child Left Behind Act is drawing sharply differing interpretations from Secretary of […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, January 24, 2008
Refining the achievement gap
By John Fensterwald/San Jose Mercury News
It’s a matter of definition: As the P-16 Council report notes, “The U.S. Department of Education describes the achievement gap as ‘the difference in academic performance between different ethnic groups.’ In California,the gap is defined as […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Schools chief opts for low-cost reforms
DEFICIT HOBBLES EFFORTS TO CLOSE ACHIEVEMENT GAP By Harrison Sheppard/San Jose Mercury News
Even during a fiscal crisis, the state can improve its school system, from boosting support for minority students to expanding pre-school programs, state Superintendent for Public […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Not giving up
‘Year of Education’ – tempered by realism Editorial/Sacramento Bee
Californians might be baffled by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s championing of 2008 as the "Year of Education" as he proposes to cut the education budget. But his approach is not as contradictory as it […]
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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, January 18, 2008
Officials to fight proposed budget cuts
By Jill Tucker/San Francisco Chronicle
More than a dozen San Francisco elected officials stood together Thursday, vowing to fight the governor and his proposed cuts to education. "The idea we would further cut education […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, January 17, 2008
Prospect of budget cuts ignites California fury
By Linda Jacobson/Ed Week
As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faces one of California’s toughest economic periods since he first was elected in 2003—leading him to declare a “fiscal emergency” likely to produce deep budget cuts—he isn’t getting much sympathy […]