Focus on: Government & Politics
In-depth regular coverage of the role of politics in education—and vice versa.
When Mayor Martin O’Malley of Baltimore showed up to give a pep talk to several hundred new teachers preparing to start their jobs last month, he brought up the “P” word along with the three R’s.
September 13, 2005 – Education Week
As the nationwide debate over attempts to bring intelligent design into public school classes has grown increasingly polarized, Bernadette Reinking and Dover CARES seem intent on conveying a centrist message to voters. Her group supports allowing discussion of intelligent design—in social studies, comparative religion, or similar classes, not as a biology lesson.
June 14, 2005 – Education Week
After nearly 40 years in elected office, North Dakota schools chief Wayne G. Sanstead has formed an enviable bond with voters and schoolchildren throughout his state. But the brisk 70-year-old has drawn increasing criticism from teachers and administrators.
May 3, 2005 – Education Week
When California Teachers Association President Barbara Kerr met with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last month, she had one pressing question: “What happened to the man we knew last year?”
March 29, 2005 – Education Week
Mark it down: 2005 may be a banner year for private school choice in state legislatures.
February 23, 2005 – Education Week
Approximately 1,200 people at a pro-education rally in Jackson, Mississipi, presented state lawmakers and the governor with more than 137,000 signatures on Jan. 11, asking them to spend more on education this year.
January 19, 2005 – Education Week
The nation’s governors are pushing high school reform as a way to build up the workforce in their states—and to score major political points in the process.
November 23, 2004 – Education Week
State schools chiefs don’t often seek election to the U.S. Senate. But this year, Democrats Inez Tenenbaum, the incumbent chief in South Carolina, and Betty Castor, a former Florida commissioner, are doing just that.
October 19, 2004 – Education Week
Although the hard-fought presidential race has dominated campaign news in recent weeks, it’s also a critical year for state legislative elections.
October 1, 2004 – Education Week
With a long list of accomplishments and identities—author, scholar, pundit, federal humanities chief, and wife of Vice President Dick Cheney—perhaps it is the status awarded her by her young granddaughter that Lynne V. Cheney cherishes most these days.
June 16, 2004 – Education Week
Mayor Anthony A. William's plan for assuming more control of the District of Columbia school system has found few supporters, as the search for a new chief continues.
March 31, 2004 – Education Week
Recent incidents underscore the questions that arise over the use of school time and resources for political purposes.
February 25, 2004 – Education Week
Conflicting results send few clear messages to policymakers and political candidates facing demands to improve schools, provide tax relief, and lift personal income—all at the same time. Includes accompanying story, "Let Noncitizens Vote, Mayoral Hopeful Says."
November 26, 2003 – Education Week
While their campaigns for governor may have a down-home feel, the candidates in Mississippi, as well as in Louisiana and Kentucky, are stressing serious issues such as education, the economy, and ways they can help people find better jobs. Voters in those three states head to the polls in the coming weeks to choose governors.
October 22, 2003 – Education Week
As state legislators stage their annual back-to-school events this fall, the students they're visiting have had something many of the lawmakers haven't: a summer break.
September 17, 2003 – Education Week
Head Start advocates have greeted President Bush's proposed changes to the program with a blitzkrieg of e-mails, rallies, and a lawsuit.
June 18, 2003 – Education Week
It seems that the face of political activism is getting younger—at least where protests against school funding cuts are concerned.
May 14, 2003 – Education Week
While most mayors have little control over the public schools in their cities, increasing public pressure is putting the elected leaders on the political hot seat to help improve struggling urban districts.
April 9, 2003 – Education Week
Just what stake does the education community have in the debate over judicial selection and the makeup of the federal judiciary? A potentially big one, say several legal experts and activists. Includes "Federal Appeals Court Vacancies."
March 5, 2003 – Education Week
Bit by bit, the functions that former Gov. Roy Barnes transferred out of the state department of education are being brought back by the state's newly elected Republican superintendant of schools.
January 29, 2003 – Education Week
When state lawmakers return to their capitals next month, many will do so without colleagues who for years took the lead on complex school funding issues, state testing systems, and teacher-quality initiatives.
December 4, 2002 – Education Week
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