Friday's ed news:
1. Parents have pulled another Parent Trigger [2], this time in Los Angeles.
2. Indianapolis' reactionary school superintendent retires [3].
3. Minnesota may be poised to adopt revisionist history standards [4].
4. Pennsylvania schools losing students to charters [5] are spending money not on improving but on ads to get the kids back.
5. So many Massachusetts families want charter school seats [6]that legislators are considering removing a cap on the schools.
6. An Arkansas lawsuit may eliminate race as a criterium for school choice [7].
7. The more parents subsidize their child's college education [8], the worse grades the kids get, a study finds.
8. Pennsylvania's governor will take on massive teacher pension deficits [9] because not doing so will bankrupt the state.
9. Limiting kids to traditional public schools is like requiring everyone to buy the same car [10].
10. Charter schools continue to experience explosive growth [11].
Thursday's ed news:
1. An Illinois Democrat is sponsoring a bill to give students vouchers [12].
2. Wisconsin vouchers [13] help a special-ed student become a high achiever.
3. Legislation to allow charter schools in Missouri [14]has passed its Senate education committee.
4. A Vermont town privatizes its only public school [15].
5. A Pennsylvania school board does nothing about teachers found cheating [16].
6. New York City's school bus driver strike continues, leaving 152,000 thousand kids stranded [17].
7. Nevada's state superintendent [18] talks education reform.
8. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad calls for property tax and education changes [19].
9. The vast majority of Missouri schools are not ready to test students online [20].
10. Let teachers run schools [21], says Kim Ferris-Berg.
Wednesday's ed news will not be posted--SRN's full-time staffer is reporting in the Indiana Capitol today.
Tuesday's ed news:
1. The hidden agenda behind anti-bullying laws [22].
2. Eighteen states already allow adults to carry loaded guns in schools [23].
3. Indiana's legislature holds a Common Core hearing Wednesday [24].
4. Students attending Michigan charter schools learn more [25] than their traditional-school counterparts.
5. Jeb Bush visits Tennessee to talk vouchers [26].
6. A California university is partnering with a massive open online course provider for cheaper classes online [27].
7. Hispanics benefit [28] from school choice.
8. Tennessee's charter schools association wants the state, not just school boards, to be able to okay charter schools [29].
9. Ohio's governor supports teacher merit pay [30].
10. Few Louisiana teachers will get tenure [31], the state superintendent said.
Monday's ed news:
1. Ohio's governor will propose broad school reforms [32].
2. A California principal loses her job over notifying teachers and the police of a fellow teacher's death threats [33].
3. Though federal evaluations have repeatedly shown the $180 billion Head Start program has no long-term effects on children [34], a Hurricane Sandy bill will send it another $100 million.
4. Like several other states, the feds may pull some of Maryland's education grants [35] because the state is not doing with them what it promised.
5. The Washington Post supports allowing alternative teacher prep