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• Stand up for good history in Texas

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 580
  Here’s an education and Texas issue I’ve not done justice to:  The Texas State Board of Education is working to gut social studies curricula in Texas, with a special vent on history, which they appear to think is not fundamentalist Christian enough, and economics, where they think “capitalism” is, somehow, a ...
  2 days ago

• Gov. Pat Quinn Appoints 25 to Key Education Council, Names Chicago City Clerk Miguel del Valle as Panel Chairman

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 477
  Miguel del Valle (Chicago, IL) — December 6, 2009 . Governor Pat Quinn last week made 25 important appointments to the P-20 Council , a key education advisory panel, and named Chicago City Clerk and former state senator Miguel del Valle , as Chair. The P-20 (pre-school through graduate school) Council will ...
  1 week ago

• Kansas school spending advocates: no alternative views welcome

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 429
  On Monday and Tuesday, the Kansas House Appropriations Committee held hearings, and big topics were Kansas school funding and the Kansas budget. The reaction by school spending advocates to two speakers is illustrative of the highly divisive nature of public school operation and funding in Kansas. We need to label ...
  3 weeks ago

• Extra money in Kansas school funds could help with budget

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 429
  Continuing a debate on Kansas school funding on the KPTS television public affairs program Kansas Week , Kansas Policy Institute (formerly the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy) President Dave Trabert appeared tonight to present KPI’s findings about school funding. While school spending advocates have ...
  4 weeks ago

• Missing juniors: State to crack down on testing loophole

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  Taking aim at a loophole used to exclude academically weak 11th-graders from state testing, Illinois education officials said this week they want to create a single standard to determine when students are counted as juniors and therefore must take the exam. The change would thrust state policymakers into what ...
  4 weeks ago

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  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 423
  Gongwer News had a surprising headline today: State Board Wavers In Its Support For GOP Bill To Delay All-Day Kindergarten As a member of the State Board I was a bit surprised to learn from the press that a majority of the board decided to waver, waffle and flip flop on their support for SB 173. Talk about ...
  4 weeks ago

• Trip’s morning reading

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 585
  In national news, about one million laid-off workers  will see their unemployment benefits end in January unless Congress acts quickly to renew existing federally paid extensions, according to a new report and legislators and state officials, the New York Times reports. California faces a nearly $21 billion ...
  4 weeks ago

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