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• Healthy school dinners for the chop?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Five years after the outcry over Turkey Twizzlers, school food campaigners are worried that progress could stall if budgets for ingredients are cut Five years ago this month Education Guardian "named and shamed" the infamous Turkey Twizzler as the unhealthy scourge of school dinners, putting the spotlight on the ...
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• Free schools offer political rewards | Toby Young

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Those parents, like me, eager to set up a new state school should know that theres no need to wait for a Tory government As the leader of a parent group in Acton trying to set up a new state school , I was delighted to read in the Guardian about how many other groups are planning to do likewise . According to the ...
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• Plummeting Private School Enrollment May Increase Strains on Public Schools

  
  California Budget Bites — Authority: 410
  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 ...
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• Our academies are raising standards. These accusations dont stand up

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  With the help of sponsors, these schools are breaking the link between poverty and low attainment Your article on the value and success of academies and their sponsors overlooks their achievements ( A ludicrously expensive con-trick , 1 December). Far from being a "con-trick", they are one part of the governments ...
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• The latest Ohio Education Gadfly is here!

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 573
  The holiday season has arrived - and here at Fordham Ohio we’re feeling pretty darn generous.  We’ve decided to bestow upon you this week not one, but TWO Ohio Education Gadflies! Hot on the heels of Monday’s Special Edition , the regular Ohio Education Gadfly returns and you won’t want to miss it! ...
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• Justice Michael Kirby, you’re my hero!

  
  LisaHillSchoolStuff's Weblog — Authority: 109
  I hope the ABC doesn’t mind me quoting from their report about what Justice Michael Kirby had to say about the inequitable funding of government schools, because I’m fed up too.  I am more than fed up with the lack of funding for kids who need extra help, money for which is smeared as money for teachers to ...
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• Another Superintendent Speaks Out Against Evidence-Based Funding

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 420
  Yes, its true. Yesterday Columbus NBC Channel 4 ran this story. Dont forget to scroll down to watch the video. UPPER SANDUSKY—The governor’s evidence-based funding model isn’t yet fully implemented, but Upper Sandusky Schools Supt. Ken Doseck says when it is, his district could go bankrupt. ...
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• Productivity in schools stalls

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Education quality has risen just slightly, despite huge investment, statistics show Labours multi-billion investment in education has produced an average increase of just one GCSE at grade C per pupil every five years, statisticians revealed today. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysed whether schools ...
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• Are academies just a ludicrously expensive con-trick?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Sponsors have failed to provide the cash pledged to academies, new information reveals, so the taxpayer is left footing the bill It has always seemed a struggle. The government and its Conservative predecessors have fought what has often appeared a losing battle for 20 years to persuade private sponsors to pump their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letters: School budgets

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  So Ed Balls is to claw back £750m a year from schools ( Report , 27 November). Will there be similar cuts at the banks? Will lights dim at Canary Wharf? Will senior bankers posts be trimmed? Will banks be told how much they can keep in reserve, pay in salaries, hand out in bonuses or gamble on investments? In other ...
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• New Op-Ed

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 127
  Here is a new Op-Ed I had in a local paper: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20091128/OPINION/911280311/1016/...
  2 weeks ago

• St. Joseph County ISD endorses Save Our Students, Save Our Schools, Save Our State resolution

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 148
  In the wake of budget cuts affecting schools in Michigan, the St. Joseph County Intermediate School District (ISD) Board of Education has adopted a Save Our Students, Save Our Schools, Save Our State (SOS) resolution in support of funding for education. Endorsement of the resolution came during the board’s ...
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• Ed Balls tells schools to make £750m savings

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Schools urged to turn out lights and share cleaners to minimise future cuts Ed Balls today ordered schools to tighten their belts, setting out measures to save £750m a year by turning the lights off, cutting back on heating bills and sharing cleaners . Schools need to start making savings now to safeguard ...
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• School superintendent speaks to TR Lions

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 148
  School funding and related topics were highlighted Tuesday evening as Roger Rathburn, superintendent of the Three Rivers Community Schools, addressed the Three Rivers Lions Club. The Three Rivers school district was in the spotlight Tuesday evening (November 24th) as Roger Rathburn, superintendent of the Three ...
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• Kellogg Foundation invests in Detroit

  
  m-bike.org — Authority: 121
  We recently wrote about W.K. Kellogg’s early bicycling advocacy efforts including his lifetime membership in the League of American Wheelmen . Those efforts have continued through the Kellogg Foundation which has invested in trails throughout Michigan. Here’s more good news as of last Monday. The W.K. ...
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• School funding and budget in spotlight during TR Board of Education meeting

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 148
  Superintendent Roger Rathburn talked budget during the Three Rivers Community Schools Board of Education meeting Monday evening. School funding in general and the local school budget in particular were key facets of the Three Rivers Community Schools Board of Education meeting Monday evening (November 23rd). ...
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• Montgomery officials acknowledge school funding shortfall

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 955
  Montgomery County school officials acknowledged Monday that the system has not met state requirements for education funding this year, setting in motion events that could lead to a fine of more than $20 million and a possible court battle.
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• So, just how difficult is it for parents to set up their own school?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  In August, journalist Toby Young announced in this newspaper that he wanted to found a new type of free school where access to a good education is not based on income. Three months on, his biggest problem is battling bureaucracy and accusations of middle-class snobbery I emerged from a meeting with the DCSF ...
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• Opt In Funding

  
  davidebowman — Authority: 114
  School funding is a big problem in Ohio.  For as long as I can remember there has been a system that relied on the passage of levies district by district every year or two.  Those districts that regularly pass levies have money, and those that don’t pass levies struggle.  One problem with this system is that even ...
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• Quality universal childcare for £9bn a year? A bargain | Polly Toynbee

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  The promise of Labours under-fives programme has only ever been half-met. The next manifesto should go the distance The government looks set to revise its plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers : it is "listening", as it should. Naturally the hostile press shouts "u-turn" and "embarrassing climbdown", but ...
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