Education News Nuggets
What doesn't work when you're trying to save your schools from a budget crisis: buying golf courses and paying for
What doesn't work when you're trying to save your schools from a budget crisis: buying golf courses and paying for
?Movements need heroes and villains, and Weingarten has become an easy target for school reformers who seek to blame public school teachers for the ills of urban education and attack their unions.'' -Valerie Strauss, Correspondent, Washington Post
Everybody's making cuts. Tight finances are forcing states and districts to reconsider which items belong in the ?vital? category on the budget sheet and which ones can be pared away with little collateral damage. Among the emerging holdouts in the ?vital? column is small class size (in no small part because state law often mandates maximum class sizes).
One of things New York State Education Commissioner David Steiner said yesterday in his RttT discussion was that ?we've never had so much money being devoted to innovation and so little money being available for basic services,?
During an interesting state-wide Public Television teleconference (and, if you click here, you can find it on the world wide web) yesterday, New York State Education Commissioner David Steiner and his Deputy John King offer an interesting preview?of the mechanics of Race to the Top.