August 25, 2010
Superintendent Walt Rulffes plans to spend $54.2 million in new federal funding to fully staff schools and create "hundreds of additional jobs" for the Clark County School District, according to a memo released Tuesday. The Education Jobs legislation allows school districts to spread the one-time funding over two years, but Rulffes said it is important […]
August 25, 2010
New York won a $696 million federal grant yesterday, after it agreed to add more charter schools, use student test scores to help evaluate teachers and adopt other measures so strongly opposed that they doomed its first application. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer told The Associated Press that New York’s win shows that states making “hard […]
August 25, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that 10 applicants have won grants in the second phase of the Race to the Top competition. Along with Phase 1 winners Delaware and Tennessee, 11 states and the District of Columbia have now been awarded money in the Obama Administration’s groundbreaking education reform program that will directly […]
August 25, 2010
It’s not enough for teachers to simply teach these days. Cuts to Medicaid and school budgets are taking a toll on the number of school social workers. As a result, teachers ar e being called upon to provide social work services for their students. National Association of Social Workers-Michigan Chapter Executive Director Maxine Thome says […]
August 25, 2010
When the state earlier this month released its yearly report evaluating Oregon’s schools by federal No Child Left Behind standards, the most glaring pattern to emerge from the Oregon Trail School District’s numbers was the poor performance on the state assessment test of the district’s special education students. The report showed – at the elementary […]
August 25, 2010
The state’s budget impasse is forcing some schools to seek loans to pay their bills as they start the school year. To help the state meet debt and pension obligations, state officials decided Monday to start delaying school payments of $2.5 billion a month in September instead of October, as originally planned. "It’s not good […]
August 24, 2010
A closed South Miami-Dade charter school cited for spending public money in questionable ways, not providing textbooks to students and having unsanitary conditions is asking for another chance. On Tuesday, representatives from Rise Academy will meet with the state’s charter school commission to make their appeal to reopen, citing the school’s improvement from an F […]
August 24, 2010
School districts across the country will be able to improve and strengthen their emergency management plans as a result of $28.8 million in grants awarded today by the U.S. Department of Education. The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) discretionary grant program will enable 98 school districts in 28 states to improve plans that […]
August 24, 2010
After losing her teaching job in Norwich last spring, Antonia Revere worried all summer, hoping for the phone call that finally came this week. "I’m so relieved. I’m so happy," said Revere, who was notified by the school district Monday that she has been rehired as a third grade teacher. She is one of hundreds […]
August 24, 2010
Teachers in three Iowa school districts have broken new state rules that limit the use of physical force and "timeout" rooms to discipline unruly students, state education records show. The violations show school employees need better training and oversight for how they handle disruptive students, advocates for mentally disabled children say. Tracy Terrell of Osceola […]