September 14, 2010
Governor Charlie Crist and Commissioner of Education Dr. Eric J. Smith today proudly announced Florida’s 2009-10 public school SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) results. While more Florida students than ever are taking the college readiness exams, Florida students also improved scores, indicating the excellent preparation Florida schools are providing for a postsecondary education to more […]
September 14, 2010
The Duluth school district will be cautious with how it spends the nearly $2 million it will receive as part of the federal Education Jobs Fund this fall. The School Board and administration discussed the money Monday, and many said they’d like to see some of it used to help classrooms now, but some should […]
September 14, 2010
The U.S. Department of Education has approved New Jersey’s application for $268 million in emergency jobs funding designed to minimize layoffs of teachers and other public workers, according to U.S. Rep. Rush Holt’s office. Gov. Chris Christie’s administration applied for the funds last week. There wasn’t much drama to the announcement, as the money was […]
September 14, 2010
Failure in quality teaching and support has led to many children wrongly identified as having special educational needs, according to a report published by Ofsted today. Ofsted examined special education provision to the age of 19 years across 22 local authorities and concluded that good quality education and effective identification of children with special needs […]
September 14, 2010
A bill designed to shield public school districts from having to assume the $1,300 cost of evaluation services for an out-of-state special education student enrolled in private schools within the district has been signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie. Instead, the state government will pick up the cost. "New Jersey has many outstanding schools […]
September 13, 2010
By Chicago Public Schools’ own reckoning, about a quarter of its elementary schools and more than 40 percent of its high schools are failing, according to internal documents obtained by the Tribune. Each year, district officials score each school based on academic performance. Last year, they assigned grades A through F based on the numeric […]
September 13, 2010
While state funding has declined during the past three years and teaching positions are eliminated across the north state, special education funding hasn’t been cut as deeply. That’s because it is against the law to reduce special education funding, said Conde Kunzman, director of Shasta County’s Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA). “You can’t cut […]
September 13, 2010
Every year, a group of educators meet with parents of a special needs child to make an extremely important decision in his or her education. The result is a meeting in which a general education teacher, special educator, administrator, school psychologist and other representatives team up with the parents to create something that will ensure […]
September 13, 2010
Once upon a time, “Room 222,” a television show about a troubled high school, attracted a national audience. The veteran teacher was handsome. The beginning teacher was perky. The principal was gruff. The theme song had a flute. Ed Smalley Jr., now 60 and white-haired, was in teachers college when “Room 222” was in its […]
September 13, 2010
Kamaile Academy, where just one out of four kindergarten students has preschool experience, will roll out an ambitious plan over the next year to increase sixfold the nu mber of children in its preschool classes — to 250 from 40 — and set up a "baby college" to teach new moms and dads how to […]