September 22, 2010
More special-education students should be moved into general-education classrooms as part of a drastic makeover of special-education programs, a report ordered by the Board of Education recommended. According to the report released Tuesday, the San Francisco Unified School District needs to change the way it serves the nearly 7,000 special-education students in order to help […]
September 22, 2010
San Diego city teache rs may face layoffs for the first time since the district began its annual process of slashing millions of dollars from its budget four years ago. San Diego Unified School District officials said Tuesday that the district’s teaching staff could shrink by 1,000 positions next year and another 500 non-teaching jobs, […]
September 21, 2010
Special education advocates are greeting the burgeoning common academic standards movement with a mixture of optimism and caution. Adopted so far by 36 states and the District of Columbia, the common academic standards were developed with the backing of two national groups based in Washington, the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National […]
September 21, 2010
The Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department on Aging today are co-hosting the first Illinois Summit on Aging and Education to highlight the best intergenerational practices designed to improve student performance, increase graduation rates, and promote healthy lifestyles. Today’s summit at Illinois State University in Normal will mobilize resources to address two […]
September 21, 2010
While talking to someone with a strong background in speech pathology and literacy recently, I learned of an interesting theory: Inclusion for special-education students, this educator said, has “backfired.” Now, she didn’t necessarily mean that special-education students should be quarantined from their peers or that the inclusion movement didn’t have good intentions — just that […]
September 21, 2010
As students are settling into a new school year, San Diego Unified School District board members are looking into the next year, which will be the fifth straight of major cuts. Board members will begin budget talks for the 2011-2012 school year months earlier than usual today as they face a $141.6 million projected deficit […]
September 21, 2010
A new charter high school proposed for Manhattan has close ties to a for-profit curriculum provider with family links to the chair of the state board that will decide on the school’s application. The school in question, the New York Flex Charter High School, is planned for Manhattan’s District 2, which covers much of downtown […]
September 21, 2010
Colorado school districts, already hit with 6 percent cuts in the current fiscal year, could face another reduction after a new budget forecast that shows the state is back in the red. The potential new cut to schools could come just after districts received federal funding to help offset previous funding decreases. According to the […]
September 20, 2010
After two years of serving students’ medical needs through a school-based clinic, Aurora Public Schools has decided the need is great enough to open a second clinic in October. Rocky Mountain Youth Clinics operates the clinic at Crawford Elementary in Aurora, and has seen the number of patients who use it double from 1,000 in […]
September 20, 2010
Gov. Ed Rendell has made increasing investments in public schools his top priority. But much of that money has wound up in public schools’ rainy day funds. Since Rendell came to Harrisburg, public schools have amassed $2.75 billion in reserve accounts. That figure has climbed 83 percent from Rendell’s 2003 inauguration to June 30, 2009, […]