Trends in the Use of School Choice: 1993 to 1999
Stacey Bielick and Christopher Chapman, National Center for Education StatisticsMay 2003
Stacey Bielick and Christopher Chapman, National Center for Education StatisticsMay 2003
The Education TrustSpring 2003
Tom Toch, Beacon Press2003
Few deny that U.S. public schools and districts need better leaders than many of them now have - or that the pressure of NCLB's performance expectations plus the surge of retirements among principals and superintendents will inflame this need in the years ahead. But where to find such people? What to look for? How to prepare them? On what terms to employ them? This week, the Thomas B.
Andrew Sum and Paul Harrington, The Business RoundtableMay 2003
Christopher B. Swanson, The Urban InstituteMay 2003
After a five-year battle to replace Minnesota's disgraceful Profile of Learning standards with a more rigorous set of academic standards and accountability - a fight led by Governor Tim Pawlenty and education secretary Cheri Pearson Yecke-the state legislature finally reached a bipartisan agreement to repeal the standards minutes before the close of this year's session.
A recent article in the Sacramento Bee uncovered a questionable education finance plan in California dating back to 1979 that forces the state to provide extra money to schools that meet bare minimum requirements for carrying out state mandates.
As Checker says, it's true that we need better school leadership to improve American K-12 education. With a large percentage of U.S.
On Tuesday, union-backed (and incumbent) Los Angeles Board of Education member David Tokofsky defeated challenger Nellie Rios-Parra in a key runoff election that shifted the board's balance of power back to the union.
Last year, in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public money could cover tuition costs for children at private schools. Now, the Court is being asked to rule on whether tax dollars can cover scholarships, textbooks, and other types of aid for the study of religion in higher ed institutions.