March 19, 2008
Education Week, Vol. 27, Issue 28
Teaching Profession
Layoffs Loom Amid California’s Fiscal Crisis
The California Teachers Association estimates that more than 5,000 teachers alone have received “pink slips.”
Federal
Key Democrat’s Plan Would Boost Charter Schools
Rep. Rahm Emanuel is proposing an alternative to President Bush’s $300 million private-school-choice plan that would instead supplement the budgets of the nation’s charter schools.
Teaching Profession
Illinois Teachers’ Fund Player in Federal Case
Lawyer Stuart Levine, who served on the Teachers’ Retirement System board under two governors, is expected to be the prosecution’s star witness against Antoin “Tony” Rezko.
Assessment
National Certification Board Awards 5-Year Contract to Pearson
The group that awards the nation’s only advanced certification for teachers will be dropping a 20-year collaboration with the Educational Testing Service.
Federal
Panel Calls for Systematic, Basic Approach to Math
The findings of a new federal report echo themes sounded repeatedly by math researchers today: Math curricula and classroom strategies being used in states and school districts lack consistency and logic.
School & District Management
N.Y. Governor’s Exit Muddies K-12 Budget Picture
Eliot Spitzer's resignation threatens to complicate matters for education policymakers at one of the most pivotal times of the year for public schools: state budget negotiations.
Families & the Community
Home-School Advocates Push to Blunt, Reverse California Ruling
The state education department has been barraged with calls from parents, and even picketed by protesters, over how the ruling applies to them.
School & District Management
New-Leaders Group Offers Initial Insights Into Effective Practice
School leaders who are turning around low-performing schools use three distinctly different leadership strategies for early, middle, and late-stage improvement, says a new report.