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Alonso's final report card
The reverberations from the departure of Baltimore schools CEO Andrés Alonso will be felt nationally as well as locally. Six years ago, I was a member of the Baltimore school board that hired him. Our risky vision was to try to recruit a game-changer...
Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Corporate Officers, Arne Duncan
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Grasmick to overhaul teacher training at Towson University
Several months after Nancy S. Grasmick left her job as state superintendent of schools, Michelle Rhee, the former schools chief in Washington, spoke in Baltimore and let a secret slip.
She told the crowd at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall that Grasmick...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Bowie, Towson, Towson University, Kennedy Krieger Institute
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Large number of city teachers receive unsatisfactory evaluations
A significant number of Baltimore teachers — in some schools as many as 60 percent of the staff — have received unsatisfactory ratings on their midyear evaluations as the system moves to implement a pay-for-performance contract that's...Tags: Collective Contract, New York University, Lobbying, Unions, Academic Progress
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In Digital Age, schools that succeed are schools that connect
Michelle Rhee is back in town.
This time it is as a "grass-roots" activist who only wants to put children first. Surely many of her fans in the testing industry think that's really at the heart of what they are doing. They look at failing public...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Colleges and Universities, Mass Media, Johns Hopkins University, School Examinations
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Stop blaming teachers for poor student performance
The Baltimore City Council, spurred by Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, deserves praise for its resolution endorsing the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action, to be held in Washington, D.C., on July 30. This march, and the national attention it...Tags: Executive Branch, Wages and Pensions, Washington, DC, Mary Pat Clarke, Teaching and Learning
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Ratliff holding slim lead in LAUSD race
The race for an open seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education was close in early returns with Monica Ratliff ahead despite financial support and union backing that made her opponent, Antonio Sanchez, a heavy favorite. In the Los Angeles Community...
Tags: New York City, Voting, Eli Broad, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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House speaker loses again in bid to overhaul educator evaluations
St. Louis Post-DispatchIn a stinging rebuke to Speaker Tim Jones, the heavily Republican House has rejected for the second time his drive to tie educators' job evaluations to students' academic progress. The latest defeat came shortly before midnight Wednesday, when...Tags: Lobbying, Elections, Republican Party, Academic Progress, Washington, DC
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The Kansas City Star Mary Sanchez column
The Kansas City StarThere ought to be a grading system for politicians tinkering with education reform. Something to ensure they are pro-children, not simply anti-union. None exists, so behold the Missouri legislature. Efforts to speed up a possible state takeover of the...Tags: Academic Progress, Washington, DC, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, School Examinations
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Rick Outzen: "Parent trigger" rightfully shot down
The Florida Senate proved its value on Tuesday by not approving SB 0862, the Parent Empowerment in Education Act — better known as the "Parent Trigger" bill. The tie vote — 20-20, the same tally as last year – effectively killed the...Tags: Lobbying, Charlie Dean, Jeb Bush, Washington, DC, Jack Latvala
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'Parent trigger' bill fails in Florida, killed by Senate's tie vote
The contentious "parent trigger" bill failed again in the Florida Senate, dying Tuesday on a tie vote just as it did in 2012. The bill aimed to give parents more say in the fate of a struggling school, allowing them, by petition, to select a "turnaround"...
Tags: Rick Scott, Executive Branch, Bill Montford, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Elections
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Trash policy a key focus of lobbyists in Augusta
Portland Press Herald, MaineThere's a lot of money in the trash business. Just ask the Maine Legislature. For the past three months, the media spotlight has been trained on several hot-button topics, including the state's next two-year budget, Medicaid expansion and using a...Tags: Casella Waste Systems Incorporated, Lobbying, Hospitals and Clinics, Substance Abuse, Conservation
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Parent trigger bill spawns mystery video from supposed supporters
Miami HeraldFor weeks, it seemed, few parents in Florida supported the so-called parent trigger bill. And then, a video began circulating in the Capitol. The video, featuring South Florida moms praising the legislation, was attributed to a mysterious grassroots...Tags: Coral Gables, NAACP, Bill Montford, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Coconut Grove
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