Obama Seeks $1.35 Billion For School Reform In 2011 Budget
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 17:03
According to Reuters, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he intends to seek $1.35 billion to extend a nationwide public-school reform program as part of his fiscal 2011 budget proposal.
"Over the past few months we've seen such a positive response that today I'm announcing our intention to make a major new investment," in the program, Obama said during a visit a ...
Thankful for health care access, not for reform opponents
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 08:37
Americans are lucky in many ways this Thanksgiving. ...
Listen live as President Obama speaks on education
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:10
President Obama talks about his plan to shake things up at schools nationwide. ...
Education Reformer Theodore Sizer Dies At 77
Fri, 10/23/2009 - 07:10
Theodore Sizer was dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and founding director of Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform. As the leader of Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, he implemented an innovative summer program to help Black and Latino students prepare for careers in math and science, and he founded a group that promoted major school reforms, called the Coalition of Essential Schools. ...
U.S. Education Chief Urges Calif. To Enact Reforms
Thu, 09/03/2009 - 16:42
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says California can choose to be a leader in school reform or stick with the status quo and watch other states pull even further ahead.
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No quick fix for Black students in L.A. or elsewhere
Thu, 08/20/2009 - 00:00
In Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has started a heated battle about who should and will control 50 brand new public schools and hundreds of old ones the government says are just plain bad. He's backing a plan to let the people with the best idea of how to run the new schools do just that, and he wants to go further and allow charter school operators, teacher groups or other groups take over older schools and revamp them and their staffs. ...
