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August 23, 2007

August 23, 2007

Washington City Paper, DC: A Special Education - Make your case and you could send your child to private school, transportation included, on the taxpayer’s dime. Here’s the catch: You need to prove that your child has special needs—needs that a D.C. public school can’t meet.

Washington Enquirer, DC: Wasting money at D.C. schools - DCPS is a $1 billion service-delivery corporation designed to provide the highest-quality education to youth in the nation's capital. If this message isn't conveyed to elected officials, including Mayor Adrian Fenty and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray, by concerned parents and education advocates swiftly, strongly, the city is headed for another expensive deck chair-rearranging experience.

NY Sun: Education, Union Officials Take Standoff to Blogosphere - Christopher Cerf, a top deputy to Chancellor Joel Klein, was a "guestblogger" last week and the United Federation of Teachers president, Randi Weingarten, is posting this week at Eduwonk.com

Cherry Hill Courier Post, NJ: Nation must guarantee kids a good education - As some educators have pointed out, children requiring special education and coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds can be more challenging to teach. But that doesn't justify leaving them behind academically. Until NCLB, that is exactly what was happening in too many districts. School districts rarely included the progress of special education students in their reports on academic achievement. Now, districts must not only include the scores of these students, but are being held accountable for making sure the pupils meet the minimum standards set by NCLB.

Washington Post: Charter Schools Take Root In Maryland - One thing MD officials agree on: the state's charter schools are popular. Nine charters are opening this school year, including the first one in St. Mary's County yesterday, bringing the state's total to 30 and enrollment to nearly 7,000.

East Texas Review: Decentralizing Texas Ed - If a home school industry leader, a charter school superintendent, a top urban school district official, and an upper-level state agency official can be made to agree on anything, it’s that one size does not fit all in Texas education.

Towson Times, MD: With scholarships, parents get choice - Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore's mission is to provide privately funded tuition assistance so low-income families can send their children to nonpublic schools of their choice, rather than the families' assigned public schools. The program's motto is, "Giving parents a choice -- giving children a chance."

Press-Register, AL: Letters, faxes, and e-mail - At the present time, the Democratic Party and its teachers' union appointees are in control of public education, and have violated parents' constitutional right to decide how their children are educated.

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