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Common Core State Standards attract controversy a...
The Common Core State Standards for K-12 education, adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, are touted by some education-watchers as a states-led effort to improve college and career...
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In Louisiana, Black Students Rally to Save School...
Louisiana Weekly, News Report, Christopher Tidmore and Michael Patrick Welch, Posted: May 24, 2013BATON ROUGE, La. -- As the legislature scrabbled to restore money for some 8,000 students in danger...
Supreme Court Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Bobby Jindal Black Alliance for Educational Options Rouge
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2013/05/24 12:05
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Effort to stop Common Core fails
BATON ROUGE — Senators on Thursday rejected a tea party-backed move to prevent implementation of a new course of study known as Common Core standards in public schools. After 2 1/2 hours of testimony...
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2013/05/24 02:02
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State's Autism Supervisor eliminated, Parents spe...
Four year old Courtney loves everything about the playground...From the slide...To the swing. And Courtney's mother loves the progress her Autistic daughter is making. "She's forming her own...
Courtney Department of Education Senate Education Committee
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2013/05/24 00:40
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House member complains of delay
The sponsor of a House-passed bill that would delay the impact of Louisiana’s new teacher evaluations said Thursday action on his proposal is being unfairly delayed in a state Senate committee, as the...
Gene Reynolds Conrad Appel Senate Committee Senate Education Committee Department of Education
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2013/05/23 23:02
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Senate rejects move to stop Common Core standards
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A resolution pushed by tea party groups seeking to keep the state from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing was killed Thursday by the Louisiana...
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2013/05/23 20:56
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House Backs Variable Rate Student Loans
WASHINGTON (AP) – Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the Republican-led House approved legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial...
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2013/05/23 16:57
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CSCOPE lesson plans to cease in August
This week, the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative announced that all lesson plans related to the curriculum alignment tool CSCOPE would be eliminated by Aug. 31. CSCOPE came...
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2013/05/23 04:39
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Education Reform Heads to Governor
... Phil Prazan @PhilPrazan Education reform hung over the Iowa Statehouse for the entire session, but three weeks into overtime and Iowans finally get a result. Representative Ray Rayhon's office...
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SC Senate defeats tax credits for private school ...
A proposal to give tax breaks to parents of students who are home-schooled or go to private schools was defeated in the S.C. Senate Wednesday, despite predictions from Republicans that the vote would...
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2013/05/23 01:54
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Exit exams may be on their way out
GREENVILLE, S.C. - South Carolina Rep. Phil Owens says a story he heard from one of his constituents convinced him it was time to do away with the state's requirement that students pass an exit exam...
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2013/05/22 22:48
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$2.6B needed for Utah to reach per-pupil national...
SALT LAKE CITY — To raise Utah's public schools from their status as the lowest funded in terms of per-pupil spending to the national average would require an investment of roughly $2.6 billion,...
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Education bills top agenda Wednesday in Legislatu...
With barely two weeks left in the session, legislative committees will debate four key public school bills at the State Capitol. Senate Bill 199, which is part of a package to set up a new school...
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2013/05/22 12:08
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Education Service Center Region 2's board of dire...
CORPUS CHRISTI — Education Service Center Region 2’s board of directors questioned Tuesday night how to proceed under a revamped CSCOPE curriculum and how their client school districts would be...
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2013/05/22 02:40
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Public school aid plan fails
A $3.5 billion spending plan for public schools was rejected by a state Senate committee Tuesday, which will likely kill the measure for the session. The proposal, Senate Concurrent Resolution 23,...
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Texas lawmakers pushing for review of UIL
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) One of the chief critics of the University Interscholastic League is pushing lawmakers to conduct a thorough review of the governing body for public Texas high school sports. The...
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2013/05/21 19:19
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Senators reject new school funding formula
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Senators have killed a $3.5 billion public school funding proposal submitted to lawmakers by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Senate Education Committee...
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2013/05/21 05:39
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WFISD left to mull its options
A surprise announcement Monday from Austin that the controversial curriculum CSCOPE would no longer use its 1,600 lesson plans for grades K-12 shocked supporters and critics of CSCOPE — and put a...
Dan Patrick John Frossard AUSTIN School Board Board of Trustees
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2013/05/20 19:39
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School funding resolution set for hearing on Tues...
A state Senate committee is set to consider a $3.5 billion spending plan for public schools on Tuesday at 9 a.m. The proposal, Senate Concurrent Resolution 23, has been the subject of controversy for...
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2013/05/20 08:31
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Common core, common gain
Thousands of high school seniors throughout Pennsylvania are about to have the common experience of receiving a high school diploma. That doesn't mean, however, that their diplomas have common...
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