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October 29, 2007
October 29, 2007
Teacher pay debate continues to dominate headlines, D.C. charters to fight for fiscal equity, and more in today's Morning Shots.
Focus is on NYC charter schools
Muckety, New York, October 27, 2007
New York City's ambitious charter school initiative gets a new director this month in Michael Thomas Duffy, fresh from a successful run in Roxbury, Mass.
Lessons from green roofs at St. Paul and Elk River schools
Twin City Daily Planet, Minnesota, October 26, 2007
The U.S. Department of Education and Center for Education Reform have recognized CPA as one of the nation's outstanding charter public schools. The school has been cited for programs that teach character and "peace-making" - and the ability to get along with others.
Merit Pay Plan Raises Questions On How To Measure Performance
New York Sun, October 29, 2007
A new plan to base some teacher salaries on their performance leaves a crucial question up to each school: how to measure performance.
Disabilities Fight Grows as Taxes Pay for Tuition
New York Times, October 27, 2007
Cases like these have increasingly become a flash point in special education, pitting parents against school systems that say they cannot afford to pay to privately educate disabled children whose parents unilaterally reject their proposed placements.
Make 'No Child' honest
Los Angeles Times, California, October 28, 2007
The No Child Left Behind Act has made an admitted mishmash of public education. Yet, like nothing before, the law also has schools and the public paying serious attention to how little is learned by so many students, and how inferior conditions fester in schools that enroll large numbers of black, Latino and impoverished children.
Shortchanging charter schools
Washington Times, D.C., October 29, 2007
A supplemental budget request currently being floated by D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray on behalf of Mayor Adrian Fenty has the potential to harm the nearly 22,000 students enrolled in 55 charter schools by denying them millions of dollars in school funding.
Better schools, economy and neighborhoods
Indianapolis Star, Indiana, October 28, 2007
Perhaps the most profound changes we can make are in public education. We must make sure parents and students have the best options available within public school systems, including magnet and charter schools and other unique partnerships we can develop with parents, educators and local activists.
State education chief plans to push public school choice again
Journal Gazette, Indiana, October 27, 2007
The state schools chief says he plans to push another public school choice program in the Legislature next year, even though his efforts were defeated last year.
External Diploma Program
Washington Post, D.C., October 29, 2007
All students who can read, write and calculate at the high school level should have access to a diploma program in high school that allows them to demonstrate their competency. Our son was denied such access but by chance found another way.
Battling Ancient Bigotry
New York Post, October 28, 2007
A lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court last week could end up removing a stain from New York state's Constitution - while simultaneously improving educational opportunities for thousands of New York schoolchildren.
By the Mississippi Delta, A Whole School Left Behind
Washington Post, D.C., October 28, 2007
Of all the nation's elementary schools, the one serving this poor, rural crossroads is at the bottom of the heap. Its math and reading test scores ranked at the bottom in Mississippi last year, and Mississippi, in turn, ranked last among the states.
Parents are key to improving education
Commercial Appeal, Tennessee, October 28, 2007
"Undereducated children have no future." That unusually blunt assessment opens the recently released Urban Child Institute's "The State of Children in Memphis and Shelby County Data Book: 2007." And it's precisely why we believe that in addition to opening our pocketbooks to fix our schools, we must take the essential and more critical step of opening our minds to the need for drastic change.
Chapter 6: Administrator pay vs. teacher pay
Daily Herald, Illinois, October 27, 2007
Teachers get fewer apples from students these days, but their paychecks now more than compensate for the loss. Between 1998 and 2006, the average teacher pay in 94 suburban school districts grew from $46,883 to $59,986, an increase of 28 percent.
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