Questions about vouchers your legislators should be asking/Phila Daily News OP/ED, LTE re Vouchers and SB 1/WP: Who is a 'highly qualified' teacher?/NYT: G.O.P. Governors Take Aim at Teacher Tenure

Questions about vouchers your legislators should be asking

Philadelphia Daily News OP/ED, LTE re Vouchers and SB 1

Washington Post, Posted at 5:28 PM ET, 01/31/2011

Letter to President Obama: Who is a 'highly qualified' teacher?

By Valerie Strauss

This letter was just sent to President Obama by more than 50 organizations -- including education, civil rights, disability, student, parent, and community groups -- about legislation in Congress that would allow teachers still in training to be considered “highly qualified” so they can meet a standard set in the federal No Child Left Behind law.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/teachers/letter-to-president-obama-who.html?hpid=sec-education

G.O.P. Governors Take Aim at Teacher Tenure

By TRIP GABRIEL and SAM DILLON

NY Times Published: January 31, 2011

Seizing on a national anxiety over poor student performance, many governors are taking aim at a bedrock tradition of public schools: teacher tenure.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/us/01tenure.html?_r=1&hpw

Education Week K-12 Blog

Reps. Kline and Miller Talk ESEA

By Alyson Klein on February 1, 2011 3:14 PM

It is looking more and more like the Senate will be the first to move on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2011/02/kline_and_miller_each_talk_ese.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CampaignK-12+%28Education+Week+Blog%3A+Politics+K-12%29