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Published:
Friday, December
23, 2011 , 2:00 AM
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan
announced that the Keystone State will receive $41.3 million
from the third round of the federal government’s competitive grant program,
Race to the Top. The money is to be applied to school
reform initiatives to raise student achievement. State Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis said
half of the grant must be doled out to schools. The rest will be used at the
state level for training and technical support that will aid all districts and
charter schools.
Some of the grant will be used to
institute more rigorous academic standards, Tomalis said.
It will include the development of
high-quality online courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
fields that will available to all students.
Some also will be used to promote
high-quality charter schools and provide oversight of these independent public
schools.
The state also will break down
school-level state test scores to the classroom level. The results will be
shared with the public, allowing parents to judge individual teachers’
effectiveness.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/12/pennsylvania_lands_413_million.html
State refuses to
advance Chester Upland
Delco
Times By JOHN KOPP
jkopp@delcotimes.com
jkopp@delcotimes.com
District officials said in a public plea last week that the advance would enable the district to meet payroll beyond December. Without it, the worst-case scenario is schools would close, they said.
http://delcotimes.com/articles/2011/12/22/news/doc4ef3a7eac4407301896131.txt
State denies more aid to Chester Upland schools
By
Dan Hardy Inquirer Staff Writer, Posted: Fri, Dec. 23, 2011 , 3:01 AM
Delaware County 's
Chester Upland
School District , deep in debt and
about to run out of money, cannot expect any immediate help from the state, Pennsylvania
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20111223_State_denies_more_aid_to_Chester_Upland_schools.html
Philly schools laying off nurses and others
By
Susan Snyder Inquirer Staff Writer, Posted: Fri, Dec. 23, 2011
Forty-seven
nurses are being cut from the payroll, reducing the district's allotment to
189. Perloff, who has worked in the district for four years, was 13th from the
bottom on the seniority list. Also being cut are library assistants,
nonteaching assistants, secretaries, and others.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20111223_Philly_schools_laying_off_nurses_and_others.html?page=1&c=y
Parkland hears charter school proposal
Circle of Seasons would emphasize
creativity and imagination.
By
Tegan Hanlon, Special to The Morning Call
7:05 p.m. EST, December 21, 2011
The board held a public hearing Tuesday night
on the proposed Circle of Seasons Charter School, which focuses on an
arts-based, Waldorf-methods curriculum.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/parkland/mc-parkland-charter-school-hearing-20111221,0,3856233.story
Education Policy and Leadership Center’s Weekly Policy Notebook
EPLC
Education Notebook – Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Weekly Column: Reflecting on the Education
Committee's Work from 2011
Senate
Education Committee Chairman Jeff Piccola’s December 21, 2011 Weekly Column
http://piccola.org/press/2011/1211/122111-column.htm
Segregated
Charter Schools Evoke Separate But Equal Era in U.S.
Bloomberg By John Hechinger - Dec 22, 2011 12:01 AM
ET
At Dugsi Academy, a
public school in St. Paul , Minnesota,
girls wearing traditional Muslim headscarves and flowing ankle-length skirts
study Arabic and Somali. The charter school educates “East African children in
the Twin Cities,” its website says. Every student is black.
At Twin Cities German Immersion
School, another St. Paul charter,
children gather under a map of “Deutschland,” study with interns from Germany , Austria
and Switzerland and learn to dance the waltz. Ninety
percent of its students are white.
Six decades after the
U.S. Supreme Court struck down “separate but equal” schools for blacks and
whites, segregation is growing because of charter schools, privately run public
schools that educate 1.8 million U.S.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-22/segregated-charter-schools-evoke-separate-but-equal-era-in-u-s-education.html
Is there a Christmas
miracle in school reform debate?
This was written by Paul Thomas, an
associate professor of education at Furman
University in South Carolina
By Paul Thomas
Something profound
appears to have occurred — a cosmic shift in the education reform debate that
reflects our larger social debates in the United States
After Helen Ladd and
Edward Fiske published a commentary in The
New York Times , "Class Matters. Why Won't We
Admit It?," and
Diane Ravitch blogged "Scrooge and School
Reform," several
commentators quickly chimed in about the poverty debate in education.
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