WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, United State’s President Barack Obama placed a verbal deadline for Congress to rewrite the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. Pres. Obama wants the law to be rewritten before the 2011 school year recommences in September. Pres. Obama stated, to the effect, that he wants every child to return to...
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Albany, NY – the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, voiced a recommendation that administrators in the Public Education Department as well as educators themselves agree to a salary freeze this fiscal year which starts on April 1st 2011. However, this is no joke, as Gov. Cuomo proposed this plan in an effort...
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New York City, NY – Justice Cynthia Kern of the Manhattan State Supreme Court issued her ruling today regarding the names of teachers and their ratings being made public. Justice Kern ruled that making public the teacher ratings for 12,000 New York City teachers and their names attached is not going to be arbitrary...
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Sacramento, CA – “Reductions toward investing in education will probably keep going,” Governor-elect Jerry Brown stated today. He is seeking to improve California’s income to correspond with its’ excessive spending. Confronted with a $28.1 billion shortfall for the following financial year, Brown has been attempting to educate voters throughout California just how on the...
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New York - An argument around whether or not to give off efficiency scores with regard to 12,000 New York City teachers is placing the parents right to know first, in opposition to the fears of educators. Teachers worry that they’re going to end up being unfairly put through ridicule determined by student test...
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DENVER - Over 20 states which designed brand new education guidelines in order to be competitive to get a share of the $3.4 billion “Race to the Top” education reform grant prizes were stopped in their tracks. While the eleven successful states as well as the District of Columbia go about spending their prizes,...
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Atlanta - The quantity of “dropout factory” high schools in America has decreased since 2002, converting to at a minimum, 100,000 extra students obtaining a diploma, according to a new study. However, this report coming from America’s Promise Alliance being released Tuesday asserted that improvement needs to increase fivefold so that the united states...
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