In the news today, a growing number of school districts facing budget cuts are looking to advertising on their websites as a new revenue source, USA Today reports… At a hearing on Wednesday lawmakers said the Obama administration’s plan to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has overlooked issues that are important to rural [...]
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Social networking webinar gives tips to board members
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Collectively, these and other sites are part of Web 2.0, a new generation of e-tools that allow for more interactivity and information sharing.
“Web 2.0 isn’t so much a shift in technology as a shift in mindset and how we connect [...]
Education headlines: Senate kills D.C. voucher expansion, no more Pepsi in schools, FCC releases broadband plan
The U.S. Senate voted down a measure that would have opened the D.C. voucher program to new students, thus limiting the future of the controversial program, the Washington Post reports. PepsiCo plans to stop selling sugary soft drinks in schools by 2012, in a move aimed at curbing childhood obesity, according to the Associated Press, [...]
Education headlines: Students who don’t want to go to college, Mass. officials may shun common standards
With all the recent focus on policies to push more students to college, USA Today asks an important question: “What if a college education just isn’t for everyone?” A related story shows students who are thriving in apprenticeships and other career programs… Pundits debate the obstacles and chances of passage for President Obama’s ambitious plan [...]
NSBA supports law school’s student club policy in Supreme Court
A public law school in California did not violate the First Amendment when it withheld school recognition to a Christian student group that denies full voting membership to homosexuals, nonbelievers, and others whom the group says follow “a sexually immoral lifestyle,” NSBA attorneys said in a brief filed March 15 in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hastings [...]
Education headlines: NSBA responds to ESEA plan, new Texas standards impact textbooks nationwide
Turning around troubled schools is hard, complex, and has a lot to do with professional development–not just replacing staff, NSBA Executive Director Anne L. Bryant tells NPR for a story on the Obama administration’s proposal to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Read more reactions on the plan from education groups in USA Today [...]
NSBA praises Obama’s revision of NCLB, but raises concerns
The Obama administration’s plan to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Act would continue to test children but would include other subjects in addition to math and reading.
The Washington Post reported that the plan included a new accountibility system that would require states to make sure that all students were on the path to college [...]
Education headlines: the impact of K-12 budget cuts
In the news today, NSBA Executive Director Anne Bryant is quoted by MSNBC for an interactive story on the impact of state budget cuts on education… Kansas City isn’t the only district shuttering schools this year, and NPR discusses the impact of declining enrollments on school budgets… The Mississippi high school that canceled its senior [...]
Education headlines: KC closes half its schools, more on common standards
The Texas school board will debate the portrayal of conservatives in its new social studies standards, a move that could have wider implications for textbooks nationwide, the New York Times reports… Dealing with shrinking enrollments and budget shortfalls, Kansas City’s school board votes to close nearly half of the district’s schools, the Associated Press reports… [...]
Education headlines: Draft common core standards released, school food recall process examined, and OCR to investigate LAUSD
The long-awaited draft for the common core standards was released by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers today, and the Washington Post got the first look at what it contains… USA Today continues its series on food safety and school lunches, reporting on the dangerously high lag time on recalls [...]
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