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April 30, 2007
Education News for Monday, April 30
Top Teachers Issue Call for Revamped Pay Plans - Tired of reports by business executives and Cabinet officers on how to fix U.S. schools, 18 award-winning teachers produced their own recommendations this month, starting with a major overhaul of how teachers are paid.
Education As Commodity: Corporate Dollars Seek To Redefine Public Schools - As the No Child Left Behind Act comes up for renewal, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce is ushering in a new phase in the campaign to privatize public schools. The commission, whose last report laid the groundwork for NCLB, issued a book-length report December 2006
The Drive Is On To Save Recess - It's all work and no play for kindergartners in the Woodland Hills School District. Their school day starts at 8:40 a.m. and continues to 3:10 p.m., with no designated break for recess.
Alameda Point Thrives Despite Many Setbacks - In the 10 years since the Navy left the Island, Alameda Point has sometimes been compared to a ghost town. In many ways, it is. . .But hidden among empty hangars and old barracks is a community that teems with energy.
Negotiations Continue For Charter School - While the Mark Twain Academies charter school is getting closer to its target enrollment of 213 students, the school's leaders are concerned about having enough classrooms to house their students.
District Should Be More Open To Charter Schools - It is always difficult for those who hold power to allow the status quo to be upset in the name of progress. Any movement to break the inertia of a status quo is also a statement that standard operating procedure is failing.
Increase Aid To Charter Schools - Charter schools, the neglected stepchildren of the state education establishment, are gradually coming into their own thanks to their record of lifting the academic achievement of young inner- city children. Unlike regular public schools, with their phalanxes of administrators and strong teacher unions, the charter schools are still treated as an experiment, even 10 years after their start, and been starved for money.
GOP, Strickland Joust Over Solution To School Funding - Majority Republicans in the House have pledged to implement "Gov. Ted Strickland's School Funding Solution." The governor says he's amused when he reads a comment like that from the House budget briefing document released last week. It depicts Strickland's education budget as his plan to fix school funding, when he has made it clear he is still developing that plan.
HISD Examines Charter School Success - It sounds like a simple formula to fix broken public schools: Require students to spend more time in class. Ask parents to sign contracts committing to be involved. Hire teachers who believe every child is college material.
Charter School Grows, Raises Concerns - When Dawn Pope saw her daughter's fourth-grade class at Sams Valley Elementary, she was dumbfounded that one teacher was expected to instruct 30 pupils.
Charter Chains Shows Results, Ambitions - The preferred term is "promotion ceremony," for the record. But whatever you do, don't call what's about to happen at KIPP TRUTH Academy an "eighth-grade graduation."
Backlash Threatens Charter School Expansion While Some Public Schools Sit Empty In Gary - Local hostility toward charter schools is blocking building, leasing and expansion plans. Four local charter schools are looking for more space, among them Thea Bowman, Charter School of the Dunes, and KIPP.
Expand Charter School Opportunities In State - Oklahoma legislators have approved a bill that would make it easier to establish charter schools. But we think the bill doesn’t go far enough. The 1999 Charter School Act allowed school and CareerTech boards to be charter school sponsors.
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