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July 27, 2007
July 27, 2007
Kids will walk 2+ mi., state adopts cyber summer school, race-based transfers won't be changed, merit pay grows in popularity, ...
RealClearPolitics, IL: RX for Failure - Pay More to Teach Less - While watering down accountability requirements so that schools don't have to do a better job teaching children, they'll dismiss NCLB by undermining the testing system so that illiterate students can be labeled as success stories.
Napa Valley Register, CA: With No Child, common sense must prevail - It is the powerful voice of parents and community members that Congress needs to hear.
Commercial Dispatch, MS: Area Public Schools Get Onboard Online Classes Bandwagon - Mississippi State Superintendent takes NCLB requirement for online coursework seriously. Many students zip to the keyboard for cyber summer school.
Education Week: Merit Pay Gaining Bipartisan Favor in Federal Arena - This is one of the fascinating ways in which NCLB has changed the world. In the past, supporters of performance pay have tended to be largely Republican, but regardless of political affiliation, lawmakers appear to be attracted to performance pay in increasing numbers because you want to use every tool on board to attract new teachers to the profession and to improve troubled schools.
Tribune, CO: An Honest Education in 'Professional Pay' - The single salary schedule fits the factory model: standardizing pay and ensuring that schools would not discriminate against teachers based on race or sex. But, having wiped out meaningless distinctions, the schedule also misses important ones, such as the ability to help students learn. With each passing year, the defense of the old system becomes less tenable. New studies demonstrate the effectiveness of merit pay. Meanwhile, better technology enables more precise measurements of individual teacher contributions to student growth.
Spartanburg Herald Journal, SC: Charter School Hearing Set for Tuesday - It's our tax dollars, it's our children, it's our community and it's our future. So even if someone has no school-aged children, it would be important to address whether or not one is for or against, for example school choice, because the reality is that the quality of our children's education determines the quality of our community at large - in terms of everything from employment rates to crime rates.
Courier-Journal, KY: Public School Assignments Back in Court - Officials should allow students who were assigned to schools this year because of their race to choose another school -- or be held in contempt. District estimates suggest that roughly 2,800 students were likely assigned by race for the 2007-08 school year, meaning they weren't granted a school choice because of the district's racial guidelines. District officials say they responded to the ruling by eliminating any further use of race, and they do not have to change the practices that were in place before the June 28 Supreme Court ruling.
Morning News, AK: State Legislator Enters School Choice Discussion Between Greenland, West Fork - A state legislator hopes he can find a solution to allow more than 60 Winslow elementary students to attend school in West Fork next year. West Fork was forced to rescind approval of school choice applications for 65 students because they are white. The state school choice law currently on the books won't allow West Fork to take in more white students because more than 95 percent of the district's students are white.
St. Petersburg Times, FL: Kids Face a Long, Hard Walk to School - For many, the July 19 night meeting was the first word they heard about changing bus stops. The change affects about 200 children who will now have to walk to school, some 2 miles each way. How, parents asked, could school officials expect small children to walk that far in a rural town with few to no sidewalks, across a highway with trucks hauling lumber and produce?
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