By Erik W. Robelen Education Week As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $4 billion [...]
By Pamela Moran Schoolnet Collaboratively authored by Chad Ratliff and Pam Moran Schools of our past are over. The biggest survival challenge facing educators right now is not Economic Storm ’09. It’s designing contemporary learning spaces for today’s learners. We understand our young people will be members of a national workforce competing in a global [...]
By DIANE D’AMICO, The Press of Atlantic City TRENTON – The funding challenges faced by the state’s more than 1,200 nonpublic schools will be the focus of a new state commission. Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Tuesday signed an executive order creating the Non-Public Education Funding Commission to recommend how nonpublic schools and the state [...]
By BENJAMIN GEYERHAHN The New York Post Why is the Legislature strangling the growth of public charter schools? Charters cost taxpayers less than traditional public schools, and charter-friendly policies could attract hundreds of millions of dollars in Race to the Top funding from the Obama administration. And New York faces multibillion-dollar budget shortfalls in the [...]
June 17, 2009 Clayton Christensen The Harvard Business Review In the May 29, 2009 article, “L.A. Unified School District cancels bulk of summer school programs,” the Los Angeles Times reported that because of the state’s budget woes, L.A. Unified and other school districts in California were taking an axe to their summer school programs for [...]
December 19, 2009 By JOSEPH GIDJUNIS The Courier-Post The state Education Department will start designing the new $110 million Camden High School after the city’s Board of Education approved a resolution requesting a campus with multiple small learning communities which could integrate the city’s magnet schools.
December 15, 2009 The New York Post Time will tell whether the seemingly sweeping school-improvement program adopted by the state Board of Regents yesterday will do the job. But there’s room for doubt.
December 20, 2009 By Rita Giordano The Philly Inquirer The program allows children to attend schools outside their home districts. In South Jersey, 5 districts take part. With a governor-elect who has vowed to support more educational options, attention has turned toward a little-known program that lets families send their children to schools outside their [...]