Access News from August 25 - August 29,
2008
Daily news stories about education funding
litigation, education funding policy, cost studies,
advocacy and No Child Left Behind.
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August
29, 2008
State
Roundup
AR House and Senate education committees formally adopt
a “adequacy study” for funding an adequate
education in Arkansas public schools the next few years,
adding written comments justifying each recommendation.
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more…(The Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
GA county school system in metropolitan Atlanta becomes
the nation’s first in nearly 40 years to lose
its accreditation.
Read
more…(The New York Times)
IL---New Trier Township school officials will open only
one campus next week to an expected influx of Chicago
Public School students attempting to make a statement
about the financial inequities in state schools.
Read
more…(The Chicago Tribune)
Federal/NCLB
WI state Superintendent of Public Instruction suggests
that NCLB is a failure and has "micromanaged state
and local education systems to the point of paralysis."
Superintendent suggests changes to the current system.
Read
more…(The Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Other News
Children who attend preschool perform better in math
at age 10 than classmates who do not get the early education,
according to a study in the United Kingdom.
Read
more…(The Boston Globe)
August
28, 2008
State Roundup
IL—The suburban district of New Trier prepares
for potential influx of students from planned Chicago
Public School protest.
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more…
IN Governor and staff members examine exactly how the
state would take over day-to-day operations of low-performing
school districts should the need arise.
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more…
LA
educators plan to review LEAP test but sweeping changes
sought by some lawmakers are off the agenda.
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more…
NC students from low-performing elementary schools in
the process of transferring to better schools for the
2008-09 school year.
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more…
TX Attorney General decides that all high school graduates
in Texas will have their grade point averages calculated
the same way beginning with the Class of 2009.
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more…
Federal/NCLB
VA education officials report that seventy-four percent
of Virginia's public schools met annual performance
benchmarks in reading and mathematics under NCLB, but
93 schools face sanctions after failing to achieve those
goals.
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more…
August
27, 2008
School Funding/Litigation
SD judge decides that two veteran legislators will be
allowed to testify in adequacy suit scheduled to go
to trial on September 2.
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more…
State Roundup
IL Senator Meeks says state leaders can avert first-day-of-school
boycott by agreeing to pledge $120 million to help fund
underperforming schools.
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more…
MI’s new high school graduation requirements draw
widespread concern.
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more…
OH charter schools struggle to do well on state report
cards, according to the state Department of Education.
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more…
Other News
Two opinion polls indicate that a larger proportion
of the American public thinks that Democrats are more
likely to strengthen public schools than Republicans.
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more…
August 26, 2008
School Funding/Litigation
IL—Lawsuit field last week by the Chicago Urban
League charges that using property-tax revenue to finance
schools is unconstitutional and discriminatory, violating
the 2003 Illinois Civil Rights Act.
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more…
IL Senator James Meeks proposes a three-year, $40 million
pilot project aimed at proving that better funding and
more resources would give low-performing schools a lift.
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more…
WV legislators learn that the transfer of nearly 15,000
teachers and school personnel from a 401(k)-style plan
to a defined benefits plan would save the state about
$22 million in pension costs.
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more…
State budget shortfalls continue to increase forcing
real cuts in K-12 education.
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more…
State Roundup
KA report indicates that high-quality pre-kindergarten
education is linked with reduced crime rates.
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more…
NV State Education Association files legal challenge
to the decision by state’s Secretary of State
to allow a property tax cap on the November ballot.
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more…
Other News
New report concludes that interdistrict-choice programs
are unlikely to signifiantly increase most students’
educational opportunities.
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more…
August
25, 2008
School
Funding/Litigation
PA’s new state-funding formula includes largest
K-12 education budget increase in two decades.
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more…
NV proposed statewide budget cuts to kindergarten through
12th-grade include reducing per-pupil funding and increasing
class sizes.
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more…
NY---Prisons, universities, roads, and bridges face
deepest cuts under Governor’s budget-trimming
plan.
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more…
State Roundup
CO Growth Model shows how students have grown academically
compared with peers. Growth percentiles will allow school
districts to see how students have progressed.
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more…
NY--Ten years after leaders promised to work toward
universal pre-kindergarten programs, fewer than 38 percent
of 4-year-olds attend state-financed classes.
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more…
Other News
Intraparty disagreement over Democrats' approach to
K-12 education policy.
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more…
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