Friday's ed news:
1. How the federal government is taking over education [2].
2. A Tennessee lawmaker introduces Parent Trigger legislation [3].
3. A South Carolina lawmaker re-introduces voucher and education tax credit legislation [4].
4. The Spokane school district is adoptng fuzzy math curriculum [5] because of the Common Core.
5. A law school professor insists on equal education, which means eliminating all private and home schools [6].
6. Testing will be a major Common Core obstacle [7].
7. One set of top-performing charter schools explicitly teaches American history, culture, and values [8].
8. View a comprehensive guide to U.S. school choice [9]programs.
9. Kansas's House approves a bill that would forbid teachers unions from using paycheck donations for politics [10].
10. Ahead of a re-election campaign, Florida's governor proposes $2,500 raises for every teacher [11].
Thursday's ed news:
1. School choice could save Texas billions [12].
2. Missouri's governor wants charter schools [13] in the state, and the legislature just voted to give it to him [14].
3. Colleges are overproducing elementary teachers [15], an Education Week analysis finds.
4. A frustrated Wisconsin teacher quits the public school "sausage factory" to start his own school kids can attend because of vouchers [16].
5. The Common Core means a literature teacher of the year whose students consistently score high is now on professional probation [17].
6. Teacher pensions are crushing [18] education spending, says Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett.
7. The majority of Utahns believe teachers should allow to carry guns in school [19].
8. The Texas House zeroes out funding [20] for standardized tests.
9. View a map of prospective Chicago school closings [21].
10. Will testing kill the Common Core [7]?
Wednesday's ed news:
1. How to get better teachers [22].
2. A Massachusetts school board wants the state to replace the Common Core [23] with its previous, better standards.
3. Employees in Ohio's largest school district have been found changing grades [24] some 5,300 times.
4. Can you teach kids to persevere [25]?
5. Virginia's largest teachers union supports Gov. McDonnell's proposed teacher reforms [26], but affiliate unions object.
6. What are Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's plans for education [27]? Voucher supporters [28] gear up.
7. Pennsylvania lawmakers want right-to-work [29], which ends forced unionization.
8. Kansas's governor wants more money for early literacy [30].
9. An Oregon lawmaker wants to keep public pension records secret [31].
10. Arizonans join the Common Core debate [32].
Tuesday's ed news:
1. The national graduation rate [33] is 79 percent in four years, the highest since 1976.
2. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer proposes funding K-12 schools [34]not by attendance, but by performance.
3. A Florida mom pays for a security guard [35] at her child's public school.
4. Michigan is one of the top states for charter school performance [36].
5. More kids are being diagnosed with ADHD [37].
6. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad tells the legislature to pass his changes to teacher prep and pay first [38], then he'll talk more money for schools.
7. Congress is not likely to get much of anything done at all, and that includes move on a series of education laws set to expire [39].
8. Christo Rey Catholic schools fund themselves through students' jobs [40].
9. Boston considers ending student busing to create court-mandated percentages of races at schools in favor of letting kids attend school nearer home [41].
10. Virginia's teachers union supports a proposal [42] to lengthen the time to tenure and shorten contract disputes.
Monday's ed news:
1. Wisconsin's Republican Senate leader will block a voucher expansion [43] unless voters approve the measure directly.
2. Federal rulemakers have relaxed school lunch limits [44].
3. Federal preschool program Head Start is an utter waste [45] and should be replaced by vouchers, writes the Brookings Institution's Russ Whitehurst. President Obama plans to propose universal preschool [46] despite Head Start's failings.
4. President Obama's safety proposals [47] could undermine instruction.
5. A federal appeals court upholds Wisconsin's Act 10 [48] 'in its entirety.'
6. Idaho reconsiders the Common Core [49].
7. The healthcare law means adjunct profs, who comprise 70 percent of college faculty, are getting their hours and pay cut [50].
8. Mississippi's Senate passes a bill to allow charter schools [51] in the state.
9. Researchers counter Diane Ravitch's claims Milwaukee vouchers [52] haven't helped students.
10. The new Common Core tests will measure synthesis and investigation [53].
For last week's School Reform News roundup, click here. [54]
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- The Ed Fly [56]
- ChoiceMedia.tv [57]
- The Friedman Flyer [58]
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