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May 31, 2007
Education News for Thursday, May 31
Ohio School Fears Cuts Will Rewrite Its Success Story - The 32 students who graduated from the Dayton Early College Academy on Wednesday evening were mostly from low-income families. Few of their parents went to college.
SC Senate defeats school voucher proposals - Senators defeated attempts Wednesday to add private school vouchers to a bill that would allow students a chance to enroll in any public school regardless of attendance lines.
Disabled access in schools faulted - An audit of the Los Angeles Unified School District's progress in building and remodeling schools to make them accessible to the disabled found chronic problems in the design of parking, restrooms, ramps and drinking water fountains, as well as a troubling lack of documentation and misstatements of accomplishments.
Charter school to open after all - The demise of Holy Trinity Catholic School was an opportunity for the Cesar Chavez School Network to get back on track in opening a Colorado Springs school this year.
St. Louis School Board awarded no-bid deal to counter charters - The St. Louis School Board Tuesday awarded a no-bid contract to a marketing firm headed by a local radio show host with ties to two board members. According to the resolution, approved 4-3, the firm, Penetrating Urban Market Politics, will use the $25,000 contract to "drive the message of the negative impact of charter schools."
City School Board may revisit anti-charter contract - It seems the St. Louis School Board has not seen the last of a $25,000 no-bid contract it awarded Tuesday to radio talk show host Lizz Brown. Brown is to counter advertising campaigns for charter schools with her own marketing firm.
Local sponsor renews 73 charter-school contracts - The Lucas County Educational Service Center Governing Board spent nearly seven hours yesterday reviewing each of the 73 charter schools the agency sponsors across Ohio. Twenty-five schools were given five-year contract extensions.
Albany private school welcomes vouchers - Administrators at a South Georgia Christian school say they welcome a new law that gives parents of disabled children money to send their kids to private schools, but they don't want the government to interfere with their operations.
Most Americans want 'No Child' law left behind - A survey of 1,010 American adults reveals that nearly two-thirds of them want Congress to rewrite or outright abolish the landmark No Child Left Behind Act that mandates nationwide testing of elementary students to determine whether public schools are performing adequately.
Board OKs charter school with conditions - The Corvallis School Board approved the application for Muddy Creek Charter School on Tuesday night, but neither the board nor the charter school’s supporters seemed particularly happy about it.
Officials call on state to block charter school - City officials stepped up their efforts to oppose the relocation of a charter school near 13 Mile and Ryan roads last week. Through a letter and a resolution, respectively, sent to Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Warren Mayor Mark Steenbergh and members of the Warren City Council continued to express their concerns about the development planned by Conner Creek Academy East.
How New Generation of Reformers Targets Democrats on Education - A money manager recently sent an e-mail to some partners, congratulating them on an investment of $1 million that yielded an estimated $400 million. The reasoning was that $1 million spent on trying to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in New York State yielded a change in the law that will bring $400 million a year in funding to new charter schools.
New York City Expands Test Program in Schools - Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced yesterday that the city school system would spend $80 million over five years on a battery of new standardized tests to begin this fall for most of New York City’s 1.1 million public school students.
Planned charter school PSL divides residents - Keeping kids close to home for school is supposed to unite communities, but just north of Becker Road, a proposed charter school is dividing the neighborhood.
Debate on vouchers heats up - It is "disingenuous" for Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. to call a special session on vouchers before the Nov. 6 public vote, says House Speaker Greg Curtis, who vows to "vigorously" fight against repealing HB174 if such a session is called.
State OK needed for school plan - The New Leadership Charter School announced plans last Friday to close early this year, on June 7 instead of June 15, but state approval is required. "In order to drastically alter their calendar, New Leadership needs approval from the Commissioner (David P. Driscoll).
Opposing view: 'Too destructive to salvage' - Editorial: It's time to say in a national newspaper what millions of teachers, students and parents already know: No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is an appalling and unredeemable experiment that has done incalculable damage to our schools — particularly those serving poor, minority and limited-English-proficiency students.
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