Posts Tagged ‘School district’

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Mar11

Sign Of The Times In Kansas

by Duane on March 11th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Posted In: Education, Our children

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (AP) Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.
Administrators say the closures are necessary to keep the district from plowing through what little is left of the $2 billion it received as [...]

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Sep03

Diversity First

by Duane on September 3rd, 2009 at 6:23 am
Posted In: Education, Headlines, Our children

Boston newspaper Bay State Banner is covering the current investigation in Boston, Mass. that is looking into why the lack of Black teachers in the Boston public school district.
“The district court order — issued by Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. as part of his 1974 ruling in Boston’s landmark school desegregation case — calls [...]

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May27

Reality bites in the classroom

by Duane on May 27th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Posted In: Commentary, Education, Mentoring, Our children

University of Chicago Press Journals
Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race
A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study’s author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell University), this is the first study to show that a school’s racial [...]

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Apr03

LET OUR CHILDREN GO!!

by Duane on April 3rd, 2009 at 10:21 am
Posted In: Education, Our children

Boston.com

They come from places like Harvard, Yale, and Brown, inspired to share their energy and knowledge with public school children.
But the Boston Teachers Union has a message for those eager Teach for America recruits: Thanks, but no thanks.
With the first batch of 20 corps members scheduled to arrive in the fall, just months after probable [...]

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Mar21

Diff’rent Standards

by Duane on March 21st, 2009 at 1:11 am
Posted In: Economy, Education

While the sheeple of the United States are blowing their tops over AIG, our public school system continues with business as usual.
Rename this school district to AIG and then folks will get mad.
Seventeen Charleston County principals who oversee the school district’s lowest-achieving schools will receive more than $320,000 in bonuses this year for working at [...]

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