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Congressman explains state's piece of stimulus

Illinois is expected to receive $8.8 billion from the recently passed stimulus bill for use on improvements to roads, education funding and other building projects. "There's an old adage," said 17th District Congressman Phil Hare. "If you're heading

Mar. 02   4:04 pm

Full Story at Western Courier

God Less

2006 Winner, Best K-12 Administration Blog -- "Best of the Education Blog Awards" -- eSchool News and Discovery Education "unexpectedly entertaining"..."tackle[s] a potentially mindfogging subject with cutting clarity... they're reading those mushy,

Mar. 02   1:22 pm

Full Story at Eduwonk

Fun with Words

Thursday?s Wall Street Journal has an impassioned editorial imploring President Barack Obama to block Congressional Democrats from killing the DC Opportunity Scholarship program, the nation?s only federally-funded program providing vouchers to enable

Mar. 02   12:44 am

Full Story at Gotham Schools

Program assesses students' strengths for testing

Two hundred school districts statewide are using a new program that measures individual student strengths and weaknesses in core curriculum subjects before standardized testing is administered. The state Board of Education is advocating that program,

Mar. 02   12:08 am

Full Story at Asbury Park Press

Power to the States

Echoing Nietzsche?s famous proclamation, several states are now declaring, in effect, ?Federalism is dead.? For Americans, whose nation was founded on a belief in separate spheres of government power, this pronouncement may appear equally blasphemous.

Mar. 02   9:46 am

Full Story at Cornell Daily Sun

Follow military recruitment law

Threatened with a loss in federal funding for not complying with a controversial provision in the No Child Left Behind Act, the Rochester City School District has rightly changed course by agreeing to release student information to military recruiters.

Mar. 02   8:39 am

Full Story at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Mukilteo schools limit out-of-district kids

Published: Monday, March 2, 2009 MUKILTEO -- A dozen Mukilteo School District campuses will close enrollment to out-of-district students next fall because of growing enrollment and overcrowded classrooms. That's

Mar. 02   8:33 am

Full Story at HeraldNet

Letters from readers

I've lived in Florida all my life (60 years) and where did a letter writer get the idea that Jacksonville was a quiet Southern community? Your town is a mess. Been up there to see a doctor recently, nothing but concrete. I know, progress. So was Miami

Mar. 02   8:16 am

Full Story at Jacksonville.com

Hettleman: Myths about broken schools

To borrow from the old quip on giving up smoking: Fixing public schools is easy ? we've done it hundreds of times. Even with the billions of dollars in economic stimulus aid, public schools stand no chance of getting better until we dispel some empty

Mar. 02   6:03 am

Full Story at Austin American-Statesman

Charting a Course

Largely favorable news about Michigan's charter public schools was nearly lost in a state board of education discussion this month about whether and how to regulate the schools further. A kindergarten student at Saginaw Preparatory Academy grins as he

Mar. 02   5:35 am

Full Story at Mackinac Center for Public Policy

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