Archive for October 2013
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October 31, 2013
National panel of state school chiefs calls for teacher prep update
Just as common national curriculum standards are transforming instruction inside the K-12 classroom, a new report from the Council of Chief State School Officers is calling for a similar refocusing of teacher preparation programs.
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October 30, 2013
Feds threaten Brown on testing plan
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan moved earlier this week to squelch California’s plan to suspend almost all statewide student testing next year by formally threatening to withhold administrative Title I money – some portion of about $15 million.
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October 30, 2013
Boost in charter school enrollment expected under Brown’s school formula
Charter school operators and their supporters are looking at a potential boom in enrollment thanks to funding equities included in the state’s new education budget formula.
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October 29, 2013
College-career readiness can include remediation rates, diploma quality
In the search to define and measure college and career readiness, state and local officials throughout the U.S. are looking at university remediation rates and early performance indicators of middle school students, according to a new study.
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October 29, 2013
New school funding law sets first-time accountability for foster youth
New laws that ushered in California’s landmark Local Control Funding Formula call on the departments of social services and education for the first time to identify and share information about foster students with school districts.
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October 28, 2013
Brown administration sides with schools over flexibility of LCFF money
In settling a simmering dispute between schools and civil rights groups over the use of new state funding targeting disadvantaged students, the Brown administration appears to have decided to give local officials authority to define the mission.
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October 25, 2013
Half of state authorized charters failed to meet performance targets
Of the 23 charter schools operating under an authorization issued by the California State Board of Education, slightly more than half met their 2013 academic growth targets – but 11 scored at or above the state’s performance benchmark of 800 on the Academic Performance Index.
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October 24, 2013
Civil rights groups, schools face off over LCFF flexibility question
With a deadline looming to produce guidance on the use of billions of dollars in new state support, the California State Board of Education faces a tough call interpreting legislative intent over local spending flexibility and a commitment to direct more money to the neediest students.
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October 23, 2013
Bad to the bone – teacher movement adopts rebel yell to confront critics
Mark Naison is one bad ass teacher. The Brooklyn native and Fordham University professor, inspired earlier this year by a large-scale testing revolt in his home state, created a Facebook group for discourse among educators like himself who are fed up with federal education policy that he believes casts teachers as villains and as largely indifferent to the crisis in schools.
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October 22, 2013
School groups engage in new battles with advocates for vouchers
A new wave of conflict over school vouchers has broken out in a number of states where advocates in control of the legislative purse strings are confronting push-back from traditional public school supporters.
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