For education reformers, this year will bring a mix of the old and the new, as lawmakers bridge the gap between the lingering stalemates of 2006 and the policy innovations of 2007.
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California Educators Manipulate Migrants
On December 1, a federal audit of California’s classification system for migrant students revealed that 74 percent of those identified as migrants were actually stationary, and hence did not qualify for special federal funding.
UNCLB
NCLB is the vehicle by which the United States is complying with two UN sponsored international education agreements.
Get A Public School Clue
It’s a good thing that public school bureaucrats are not in charge of America’s Early Warning System. They are always the last to know.
Black Backlash
Blacks in inner cities who have had enough of public schools are discovering they have other ways of escaping than through the vouchers that mostly white public officials are trying so desperately to curtail or control.
Second Lady on Schools
While the first lady’s commitment to education gets covered widely, the “second lady” has been even more vocal, and critical.
Remedial Nation
If other American industries performed as well as the Education sector, the raft of Chapter 11 bankruptcies would clog courts in the United States for decades to come.
Where The Girls Are
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced it would give public school districts plenty of leeway to create single-sex schools and classes.
As Easy as ABC?
Science fiction novelist William Gibson once said, “The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.” The same could be said of many innovative ideas in education reform.
Maryland Middle School Repression
Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a civil rights lawsuit in defense of the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a seventh grader who was allegedly ordered by a Maryland middle school employee to stop reading her Bible during free time at school or face disciplinary action.