K-12 News NetworkK-12 News Network http://www.k12newsnetwork.com News and advocacy for public school communities Fri, 10 May 2013 16:25:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 What's In a Name? Only Jeb! Bush Knows. http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/whats-in-a-name-only-jeb-bush-knows/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/whats-in-a-name-only-jeb-bush-knows/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 02:56:45 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2775 By Duke

Hanna Skandera is now the head chief of Jeb Bush!’s reformy group, Chiefs For Change. And she’s decided to celeberate by snatching up a title that was not conferred on her by law:

Hanna Skandera, one of most controversial figures in state government, has given herself a new title.

Even without the New Mexico Senate’s vote of approval, Skandera is calling herself secretary of public education.

It would seem a not-so-subtle dig at a Democrat in the Senate who…

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]]> http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/whats-in-a-name-only-jeb-bush-knows/feed/ 0 Common Core test is on track, State Board told - by John Fensterwald http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/common-core-test-is-on-track-state-board-told-by-john-fensterwald/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/common-core-test-is-on-track-state-board-told-by-john-fensterwald/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 02:43:16 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2776 By John Fensterwald Four states have encountered serious glitches and system meltdowns over the past several weeks as they have moved their own state assessments online. But the head of the state-led consortium creating the Common Core tests for California and two dozen other states expressed confidence Wednesday that his organization is working closely with states and taking precautions to avoid significant…

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]]> http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/common-core-test-is-on-track-state-board-told-by-john-fensterwald/feed/ 0 Bill Gates's Ridiculous TED Talk, Part I http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/bill-gatess-ridiculous-ted-talk-part-i/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/bill-gatess-ridiculous-ted-talk-part-i/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 02:39:02 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2780 By Duke

I didn’t even have to go two minutes into this spiel by Bill Gates before he laid out a whopper so large it’s simply stunning:

 

(1:06) Until recently, over 98% of teachers just got one word of feedback: “Satisfactory.”

That is astonishingly wrong. No teacher I’ve ever heard of ever got a one-word evaluation. Every principal I’ve ever worked for has written multiple pages about my teaching when doing my summative evaluation. Principals are, in fact, required to give meaningful feedback to their teachers; if they don’t, they are derelict in their duties. All good school leadership…

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]]> http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/bill-gatess-ridiculous-ted-talk-part-i/feed/ 0 Many charter schools to begin offering transitional kindergarten in fall 2013 - by Lillian Mongeau http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/many-charter-schools-to-begin-offering-transitional-kindergarten-in-fall-2013-by-lillian-mongeau/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/many-charter-schools-to-begin-offering-transitional-kindergarten-in-fall-2013-by-lillian-mongeau/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 00:35:45 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2750 By Lillian Mongeau After a year’s delay, many charter schools will begin offering transitional kindergarten classes in the fall. There had been some disagreement with the California Department of Education over whether charters were required to offer the new program for children who turn five in the first few months of the school year.
While school districts rolled out the transitional programs at the…

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]]> http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/05/many-charter-schools-to-begin-offering-transitional-kindergarten-in-fall-2013-by-lillian-mongeau/feed/ 0 Brown fights back, responds to critics of his funding formula - by John Fensterwald http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/brown-fights-back-responds-to-critics-of-his-funding-formula-by-john-fensterwald/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/brown-fights-back-responds-to-critics-of-his-funding-formula-by-john-fensterwald/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:13:21 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2508 By John Fensterwald Gov. Jerry Brown emphatically vowed Wednesday “to fight with everything I have and whatever we have to bring to bear” for passage this year of his school finance reform, as proposed.

Back from a trip to China and re-engaged on a priority issue, Brown spoke at a news conference a day after Senate Democrats announced they would propose a bill that would delay action on the governor’s Local…

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]]> http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/brown-fights-back-responds-to-critics-of-his-funding-formula-by-john-fensterwald/feed/ 0 The Illinois Charter Commission. An über committee with even less democratic oversight than the CPS board. http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/the-illinois-charter-commission-an-uber-committee-with-even-less-democratic-oversight-than-the-cps-board/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/the-illinois-charter-commission-an-uber-committee-with-even-less-democratic-oversight-than-the-cps-board/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:08:52 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2494 By Fred Klonsky

The Illinois State Charter Commission can almost be described as an über committee with even less oversight than Chicago’s mayoral controlled school board.

If a privately managed charter application is rejected by a local school board, even a board that was democratically elected as all but the CPS board are, than the unelected Charter Commission can overrule that decision.

And the district still pays the bill.

Not directly, of course.

But the state will deduct the cost of the charter operation from money that would go from the state to the local board.

This is precisely what is happening in Chicago with two charter schools operated by a group called Concept Charters.

Catalyst:

Concept Schools already operates the Chicago Math and Science Academy, a Level 2 school in Rogers Park that opened in 2004.

The approval of the Concept proposal means a new reality is taking hold in CPS, one in which the district does not have total control over charter school decisions. Because the operator was approved through the state commission, the charters will receive their funding through the state. The state, in turn, will deduct the money from the district’s funding.

Concept Charter is seeking to get a building in the North Side neighborhood of

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]]> http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/the-illinois-charter-commission-an-uber-committee-with-even-less-democratic-oversight-than-the-cps-board/feed/ 0 Pearson Error on NYS Gifted and Talented Education Screening Test http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/pearson-error-on-nys-gifted-and-talented-education-screening-test/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/pearson-error-on-nys-gifted-and-talented-education-screening-test/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:19:43 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2423 BREAKING NEWS: Pearson errors on gifted and talented screening tests for NYS students mean that too few qualified students were identified.

@GothamSchools reports:

Via @LindseyChrist Education Reporter at NY1 News:

Via Lisa Fleisher’s (WSJ) Twitter feed, H/T to @WAGPOPS:

As for the consequences of a major failure of accuracy and accountability by Pearson, what can New Yorkers expect?

@GothamSchools:

Here’s the full story from GothamSchools.

 

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]]> http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/pearson-error-on-nys-gifted-and-talented-education-screening-test/feed/ 0 Common Core Critics Want Republicans To Oppose Standards http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/common-core-critics-want-republicans-to-oppose-standards/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/common-core-critics-want-republicans-to-oppose-standards/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:41:46 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2256 By John O’Connor

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Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus.

The Republican National Committee is meeting in Hollywood this week, and could take up a resolution opposing new education standards fully adopted by Florida, 44 other states and the District of Columbia.

The

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]]> http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/common-core-critics-want-republicans-to-oppose-standards/feed/ 1 In the News: Top-performing school lands on closings list http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/in-the-news-top-performing-school-lands-on-closings-list/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/in-the-news-top-performing-school-lands-on-closings-list/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:19:58 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2275  

By Cassandra West

, former White House Chief of Staff

Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Calhoun North Elementary in the East Garfield Park neighborhood has logged some of the best math scores in the city, but CPS says it’s significantly underenrolled and should be closed next fall in a sweeping cost-cutting effort pushed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

 

Its students will be sent nearly a half-mile north

 

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]]> http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/in-the-news-top-performing-school-lands-on-closings-list/feed/ 2 Weekend Edition - Pennsylvania Education Policy Roundup for April 13, 2013: Campbell’s law and Rhee-visiting the DC test cheating scandal http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/weekend-edition-pennsylvania-education-policy-roundup-for-april-13-2013-campbells-law-and-rhee-visiting-the-dc-test-cheating-scandal/ http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/2013/04/weekend-edition-pennsylvania-education-policy-roundup-for-april-13-2013-campbells-law-and-rhee-visiting-the-dc-test-cheating-scandal/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:20:28 +0000 admin http://www.k12newsnetwork.com/?p=2289 By Lawrence A. Feinberg

Daily postings from the Keystone State Education Coalition now reach more than 1900 Pennsylvania education policymakers – school directors, administrators, legislators, legislative and congressional staffers, PTO/PTA officers, parent advocates, teacher leaders, education professors, members of the press and a broad array ofSource: Keystone State Education Coalition

  

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