Saturday, May 14, 2011

What Are We Going to do about Education?

House budget chief raises specter of school closings

Houston Chronicle (blog) - ‎May 12, 2011‎
Besides agreeing on a funding level on an overall budget, lawmakers must approve a school funding plan that would allow them to spend billions of dollars less through the next two years. Otherwise, existing school funding formulas would entitle school ...

Chicago school closing bill appears stalled

Chicago Tribune - Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah - ‎May 11, 2011‎
They cite the Consortium on Chicago School Research, which found that 40 percent of students displaced by school closings went to schools on academic probation that were not doing much better academically. The proposed bill would have required CPS to ...

Detroit education advocates march against school closings

The South End - Emily Morman - ‎May 11, 2011‎
More than 100 supporters of Detroit's public schools marched from Catherine Ferguson Academy to the Fisher Building May 10 to protest the recent slew of school closings. Students, teachers, members of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, ...

Providence's Fortes school teachers, students to be split up

Providence Journal - Linda Borg - ‎11 hours ago‎
Jones acknowledged that Lima and Fortes would not have been reorganized unless the district needed to find additional classroom space due to the school closings. The School Board on April 28 voted to close five schools, including four elementary ...

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