Showing posts with label States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label States. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2013

Parent-trigger laws pushed in Ga., other states

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ATLANTA (AP) — Education advocates in Georgia and around the country are pushing proposals that would give parents a more direct say in the governance of their children's public schools.

The idea is to allow parents — and in some cases, teachers — at poorly performing schools to vote on whether to fire principals, convert a traditional public school to a charter school or, in some cases, close a school altogether. Typically, a local school board has final say over changes, but the concept is dubbed the "parent-trigger" law.

It's the latest front in the school choice movement. Yet whether the policy — some form of which is already on the books in seven states — actually improves education outcomes remains unknown. Parents have used the new power just three times, all in California — with the most recent action occurring this week. So that leaves legislative debates, certain to play out in at least a half-dozen more states this year, to fall along the same familiar lines as battles over...

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Monday, March 4, 2013

WA is 1 of 24 states piloting new national tests

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington is one of 24 states trying out the new exams tied to the national "common core" standards in math...

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Friday, February 8, 2013

States Soon to Weigh Science-Standards Adoption

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With common standards in science set to be finalized in March, states will soon face the dilemma of embracing them as their own or going their own way, raising the question of how common the Next Generation Science Standards will ultimately prove to be.

The 26 "lead state partners" helping to develop the K-12 standards have agreed to "give serious consideration" to adopting them. Recent interviews with officials in a number of those states, such as California, Delaware, Kansas, and Maryland, reveal a generally positive reaction to the second and final public draft, issued this month for comment.

Meanwhile, some other states that are not lead partners are closely tracking the process and even have assembled broad-based teams to provide feedback along the way. Officials in both Florida and Louisiana, for instance, say their states...

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Monday, February 4, 2013

HER is the could lose millions States Valley education

SANTA FE, National (not) statement millions of dollars for federal grants for special education programs in Mexico from Germany is at risk because the State did not meet all Washington's demand for ...

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Friday, February 1, 2013

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