Class Warfare - Opinion: Implying there are now enough charter schools, the AFT says the district’s charters already offer "a tremendous amount of choice for the citizens of Philadelphia." What about the 20,000 students on waiting lists?

Longer days, Saturday sessions considered for LA schools - More students in the Los Angeles Unified School District may end up with longer school days and have to go to class on Saturdays, new Superintendent David L. Brewer III said Wednesday after a meeting with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

City Leaders Take Debate to Florida - D.C. Mayor-elect Adrian M. Fenty and incoming council Chairman Vincent C. Gray are paying separate visits to Florida this week for meetings with Miami-Dade County school Superintendent Rudolph F. Crew, a key adviser in Fenty’s campaign to win control of the District’s struggling public education system.

Choice not purpose of magnets says school board - The Stamford, Connecticut school board concluded a lengthy debate about whether school choice is one of the chief purposes of the city’s five magnet schools Tuesday, dropping choice from the list of top priorities of the city’s magnets.

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul - Opinion: Fordham’s Fund the Child proposal may well undermine many of the efforts that currently are advancing public education in states across the country.\

Charter School Start-ups Face Tough Financial Realities - Those looking to start new charter schools in Baltimore came face to face with the cold realities of numbers and money that come with trying to get a charter school off the ground.

Vermont NEA Joins NCLB Lawsuit - School districts in Vermont have joined forces with three other states and the nation’s largest teachers union to ask a federal appeals court to revive a lawsuit against the federal government and its NCLB law.

New system includes fraud report hotline - Employees of the San Diego school district have a place to turn to if they have a tip about fraud or need advice to avoid ethical pitfalls.

Falling Behind Because of No Child Left Behind - Hawaii teachers share their perspectives on NCLB.

The Ins And Outs of No Child Left Behind - In the four years since it took effect in 2002, the "No Child Left Behind Law" has had a sweeping impact on public school classrooms across the country.

Philanthropist gives $10.5 million to charter school group - Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad has donated more than $10 million to a leading charter school organization that will help its bid to triple in size as it continues to establish itself as an alternative to traditional public schools.

Teachers to push for full-day kindergarten - A $20,000 NEA grant to the Indiana State Teachers Association will go toward a push for full-day kindergarten.

Every minute counts - Extending the school day is a strategy more schools are trying as they respond to pressure from state and federal law to increase student performance in the subjects that form the building blocks of learning.

Support staff — without support - In the United States, 70 percent of education support staff work full time, but nearly seven of 10 earn less than $25,000 a year, according to the National Education Association.

Teachers’ unions call for higher pay in poorest schools - Two of Massachusetts’s largest teachers’ unions are banding together to urge for higher pay for teachers who work in schools in poor communities.

L.A. mayor, new schools chief on the same page - Despite an ongoing feud between city and school district leaders, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and new Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. David L. Brewer pledged jointly Wednesday to demand more funding for schools and more accountability from the district.

Extra pay urged at poorest schools - Massachusetts’s teachers’ unions are calling for extra pay for teachers in high-poverty schools, marking the first time that the unions have banded together behind a new type of teacher pay.

Achievement issue comes down to money - The crowd crammed into the auditorium at the downtown Seattle Public Library was friendly, but the questions were tough.\

Coaching + Math = Success - Editorial: The Massachusetts Board of Education wants to get more students to score at the proficient and advanced levels on the MCAS tests. To do that, the Legislature and the board need to deal with the alarming weakness in mathematics scores in the later elementary grades.

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Charter schools struggle with class size - A fraction of Miami-Dade’s 350 public schools are not meeting the requirements of the state’s class-size amendment, according to a report released Wednesday by the Florida Department of Education.