District Administration: Education News

• Error on New Jersey's Race to Top Forms Found too Late, Panel is Told
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  A Newark public school official assigned to help present New Jersey's Race to the Top application in Washington detected the error that contributed to the state's losing $400 million in federal education aid, but was tol...
• Teacher Suspended for Song Critical of Education
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  A high school teacher in Spokane, Washington has been placed on leave for allegedly playing a hip-hop song that criticizes the education system on the first day of school....
• Grants Helps Teachers Keep Jobs
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  More Austin (Minn.) Public School teachers will keep their jobs next year thanks to an estimated $1 million dollars in federal aid from the Education Jobs Fund....
• Sharron Angle Wants to Eliminate Federal Department of Education
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  Sen. Harry Reid's television advertisements say his opponent Sharron Angle wants to eliminate the federal Department of Education, turns out that statement is true....
• New York Anti-Bullying Bill Becomes Law
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  On the same day New York City?s 1.1 million public school students returned to the classroom, Gov. David Paterson signed a long-awaited anti-bullying bill into law at the LGBT Community Center in lower Manhattan....
• Longer Year OK with Schools if There's Funding
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  Governor Jennifer Granholm wants Michigan students to stay in school longer and wants the school year to last at least 180 days....
• Opinion: Opposing View on Education: 'It Isn't that Easy'
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  Teachers are more than the sum of a single measure, which is why the value-added rating system is so unreliable....
• New Ethics, Conflict of Interest Policies Set for Local School Boards
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  The Georgia state Board of Education lays down a blueprint for how local school board members should behave ? life after the accreditation controversies in Clayton and Warren counties....
• Opinion: Second Thoughts on Online Education
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  Let the computer do the teaching. Some studies, expert opinion and cost pressures all point toward a continuing shift of education online....
• Ariz. Education Chief: Feds Looking at Bias Claims
  published on 9/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
  Arizona's education chief says the federal government has launched an investigation into whether the state discriminates against teachers who are nonnative English speakers....