With one hand, Gov. Bob McDonnell touted his plan this week to pump millions more dollars over the next two years into Virginia's K-12 education system. With the other, he proposed cutting millions of dollars that will leave holes in the budgets of school districts across the commonwealth.
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12/22/2011
There are times when the New Jersey Department of Education gets it right. The rejection of the Garden State Virtual Charter School’s application was one such golden moment.
12/22/2011
Days after Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced early childhood education will be part of his 2012 education reforms, a state nonprofit said more children in low-income families need access to education and was criticial of the state's patchwork of programs.
12/22/2011
Colorado schools and colleges got an early Christmas gift as state economists revealed that proposed budget cuts can be eliminated because revenues are higher than originally thought.
12/22/2011
Six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down “separate but equal” schools for blacks and whites, segregation is growing because of charter schools, privately run public schools that educate 1.8 million U.S. children.
12/22/2011
The Hawaii Department of Education is struggling to make the grade and now the state has been warned it could lose $75 million in federal funding as a result.
12/21/2011
When is a cake knife like a shotgun? When a student takes that cake knife to a Derry Township School District building to celebrate a birthday.
12/21/2011
Some of the school districts in Tom Green County bucked the statewide trend and gave raises to superintendents for this school year, while San Angelo ISD and Grape Creek ISD followed the trend and froze their top administrators' salaries.
12/21/2011
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today outlined six broad principles that he says will guide the debate on education reform next year, including "intensive interventions" by the state in troubled school systems and a lighter bureaucratic touch at successful ones.
12/21/2011
Paul Vallas has built his reputation by taking on enormous jobs. He headed public school systems in Chicago and Philadelphia, two of the top 10 biggest districts in the U.S.
12/21/2011
The final budget deal funding the U.S. Department of Education through Sept. 30 of next year reflects the Obama administration's success in fending off House Republican efforts to scrap programs such as Race to the Top, Investing in Innovation, and School Improvement Grants, all administration priorities.
12/21/2011
Aaron Spence will take over as the new superintendent of Moore County schools in February.
12/21/2011
School districts across the country often spend less on instruction for low-income and minority students, and it’s one of the main reasons the United States no longer leads the world in education, as it did 40 years ago.
12/21/2011
AMX, the leading provider of solutions that simplify the implementation, maintenance, and use of technology to create effective environments, announced the scheduled immediate availability of the Enova DVX-3150HD All-In-One Presentation Switcher.
12/21/2011
School Improvement Network has added yet another tool to its professional development platform, PD 360. The new addition, My Portfolio, is a groundbreaking function that gives educators the opportunity to create, share, and implement personalized professional learning plans.
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