By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
08 March 2010
Any day now, the Obama administration will announce $4.35 billion in extra federal funds for under-performing public schools. That's fine, but relative to the financial squeeze all the nation's public schools now face it's a cruel joke.
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Pocahontas County stands to lose $500,000.00 from it's education budget in 2012!
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The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) worked closely with other early childhood education advocates, like Preschool California, on SB 1381 by Senator Joe Simitian. The bill changes the date from December to September for which a child must turn five to start kindergarten and allows districts to provide transitional kindergarten for those students born between September and December. See below for more details from Preschool California. |
Grievances, Gripes and Improper Practice Charges - What do they mean? What can you do?
Disciplinary rights of permanent competive class employees as well as non-competitive class employees with at least 5 years of continuous service.
The Golden Heart and Hands Award honors a support staff AGCEP member who has contributed outstanding accomplishments to Greece Central School District and our community.
What is Vote-Cope?
AEAA has launched a 2010 Petition Drive to Raise Revenues. This weblink provides a PDF file petition download, as well as where state lawmakers can find the money to provide an education for New Mexico's K-12 school children, as well as college and university students. Included is information about THREE POINT PLAN: A Permanent Fix for Budget Cuts.
Essentially, the Times is assessing teacher perfomance based on the test scores of students. Each students' tests scores are used to project future progress. Here is an explanation of the value-added approach.
Click on the title to read the reposnes to the value-added approach.
