January 14, 2010
Hazleton Area will compete for federal Race to the Top funds that would commit the school district to sweeping curriculum and personnel reform while requiring schools to improve state test scores through 2014. Superintendent Sam Marolo, school board President Paulette Platukis and Hazleton Area Education Association President Patricia Cannon held a press conference Wednesday morning […]
January 14, 2010
The Bethlehem Area School District’s teachers union broke ranks with Easton and Phillipsburg to support its district’s application to compete for millions in federal education grant money. The Bethlehem Area School District could see anywhere from $3 million to $8 million if Pennsylvania is selected as a recipient for the maximum amount of Race to […]
January 14, 2010
Texas won’t compete for up to $700 million in federal stimulus money for education because the program ”smacks of a federal takeover of our public schools,” Republican Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday. The funding is from the U.S. Department of Education’s ”Race to the Top” program, a $5 billion competitive fund that will award grants […]
January 14, 2010
States and school districts across the nation are working feverishly to position themselves to be winners of the federal Department of Education’s country-wide competition for funding. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has proudly crafted and mark eted his “Race To The Top” (RTTT) contest as the best strategy for urging states to turn disasters into […]
January 13, 2010
Gary Community School Corp. administrators, school board members and union representatives signed on to make the district eligible for federal Race to the Top funds at Tuesday’s school board meeting. The state had set Tuesday as the deadline to submit a memorandum of understanding to the state. The agreements will be sent to the U.S. […]
January 13, 2010
The following information was released by the New Jersey State Senate, Democrats: A measure sponsored by Senator Shirley K. Turner which would create the New Jersey Special Education and Traumatic Brain Injury Task force was unanimously approved today by the full Senate. "Because of the severity of many traumatic brain injuries, it is absolutely necessary […]
January 13, 2010
The Rockford School District is in the running for a piece of the $500 million pie for education reform and student success in Illinois through Race to the Top. The district and Rockford Education Association together applied for the competitive grant program funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Nationally, $4.35 billion […]
January 13, 2010
A new tuition-based program in the public school district will provide children some of the benefits of a full-day kindergarten without the need to seek often-elusive voter approval, school officials said. The new Kindergarten Enrichment Program, open to students enrolled in the district’s half-day kindergarten, will provide transportation to and from the students’ kindergarten class […]
January 13, 2010
Memphis City Schools will have to wait to get millions of dollars that the City Council said it would give the district for the current year. The council voted 8-3 Tuesday to delay paying the $50 million that it promised the school system until there is a resolut ion to the ongoing litigation over school […]
January 13, 2010
Nine local school districts have signed on to the state’s application for Race to the Top, an education reform grant that Oregon is seeking from the federal economic stimulus package. They’re among 112 school districts in Oregon that agreed to implement reform initiatives — that range from developing a statewide education data portal to turning […]