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• How teacher unions lobby government to block educational reform

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 554
  If you study software engineering management, you learned about the importance of measuring different quantities to asses the quality of the software being produced. For instance, we measure things like unit test coverage, coupling, cohesion and cyclomatic complexity. In fact, just today I had to add unit tests to ...
  1 week ago

• The Class for the “Slow” Is Ahead of its Time

  
  Stray Blog — Authority: 112
  My sister just started working in the “DD” Class at the local public high school. The “DD” stands for developmentally disabled. Yesterday they watched a movie about the Great Barrier Reef to learn about Australia. Then they went to the Dollar Store to purchase Christmas gifts for the class’s “Secret ...
  1 week ago

• One Radical School Budget Solution: Eliminate Transportation

  
  The Elementary Educator — Authority: 120
  School funding in many areas, including virtually all of my home state of Michigan, is in a crisis right now. Here in West Michigan, to maintain educational quality, districts have spent $104 million from their rainy-day funds just since spring .  Detroit Public Schools, facing a $219 million deficit and already ...
  1 week ago

• Plummeting Private School Enrollment May Increase Strains on Public Schools

  
  California Budget Bites — Authority: 118
  What does the recent drop in California’s K-12 private school enrollment mean for the state’s public schools? Private school enrollment fell by 5.0 percent in 2008-09, the largest year-to-year decline since at least the early 1990s. This precipitous decline is likely due, at least in part, to the economic ...
  1 week ago

• Class sizes creep up statewide, making full compliance with 2002 law all the harder, new figures show

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  Floridas average class sizes increased this year across the board, a first since 2002. Thats the year, the state (following voter demands) started working to shrink the number of students in each class. But figures released by the Florida Department...
  2 weeks ago

• Oranges class size issue blamed on computer problems

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  Orange County school administrators say they will appeal most, if not all, of the findings that landed 29 of their schools on the states out-of-compliance, class-size list. Deputy Superintendent Judy Cunningham said administrators think a new student-tracking software system created...
  2 weeks ago

• What helps kids to learn? Parents, teacher unions or education bureacrats?

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 554
  Christine Kim What’s the best way to help children do well in school? On the one hand, social conservatives on the right favor the traditional family structure, complete with a father who lives in the home and is an involved parent. Parents have an incentive to help children do well in school because they ...
  3 weeks ago

• Budget Cuts Cause Classroom Sizes to Grow, Kindergartners Suffer the Most by Meredith Kolodner - NY Daily News

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 133
  Read original... Kindergarten classes average 25 or more students, and have grown by almost 30% in 58 schools located mostly in the Bronx and Brooklyn. Giancarli for News. Class sizes in city schools jumped by the most in more than a decade this year - and ...
  3 weeks ago

• 29 schools in Orange out of class-size compliance, DOE info shows (no other district has as many)

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  Floridas latest class-size compliance list shows 29 Orange County schools are out of whack, with more kids in classrooms than the states class-size rules allow. No other districts in Florida have as many schools out of compliance as Orange. In...
  3 weeks ago

• Class Sizes Rise Again

  
  Edwize — Authority: 421
  Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend is an odd time for the Dept. of Education to publish the new class size numbers. But a quick look at them suggests why: class sizes rose virtually across the board, for the second year in a row. This occurred despite $150 million in targeted state funding to reduce class sizes in New ...
  3 weeks ago

• Poll: Class size

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 146
  What should Florida lawmakers do with the class-size amendment? Ask voters to repeal it Ask voters to stop it at school averages Use the law to smoothe out the rough edges Leave it alone Read the original: Poll: Class size
  3 weeks ago

• No new communication director for Pasco, after all

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 146
  Sorry, applicants. Pasco schools superintendent Heather Fiorentino has decided to go another new direction for the districts communications than the one she initially proposed . Sort of. Rather than name a new director of communications from among the dozen applicants, Fiorentino has chosen to freeze the directors job ...
  3 weeks ago

• Battling the class size amendment: good idea or bad?

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  In cased you missed it, the Sentinel has run dueling arguments on the beloved -- and controversial-- class size amendment Columnist Mike Thomas argues that class sizes should be left alone. He says they work. The editorial board, however, argues,...
  3 weeks ago

• School Windows Still Contain Toxic PCBs by Lisa Fogarty - Queens Chronicle

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 133
  Read original... By the time they’re in school, most children grow accustomed to hearing their parents echo cautionary instructions so common they’ve become part of the fabric of our society: wash your hands before eating and look both ways before crossing, to name a few. But Naomi Gonzalez, a Bronx mother ...
  3 weeks ago

• Class-size rules? Let voters repeal them, state Senator suggests

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 135
  State Sen. Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, has filed a bill that would let voters decide if they want to repeal the 2002 amendment that added class-size rules to the state constitution. The bill, which would need to pass the Florida Senate...
  4 weeks ago

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