Few Students Take Advantage of NCLB Options, State Finds

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By Daarel Burnette II, Star Tribune , Minneapolis (MCT)

Thousands of low-income students in underperforming schools statewide will soon receive letters saying they are eligible to transfer to different schools and receive private tutoring paid for by their school districts.

If history is an indicator, however, few will take advantage of those opportunities.

Only 1,067 of the 97,562 eligible students transferred out of their schools in the 2009-10 school year, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Education. Of the 41,734 who were eligible for outside tutoring services,...

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Judge Lets Key Parts of Ala. Immigration Law Stand

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A federal judge refused Wednesday to block key parts of a closely watched Alabama law that is considered the strictest state effort to clamp down on illegal immigration, including a measure that requires immigration status checks of public school students.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn, appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush, wrote in her 115-page opinion that some parts of the law are in conflict with federal statutes, but others aren't.

She said federal law doesn't prohibit checking students or suspects pulled over by police. She also refused to stop provisions that allow police to hold suspected illegal immigrants without bond; bar state courts from enforcing contracts involving illegal immigrants; make it a felony for an illegal immigrant to do business with the state; and make it a misdemeanor for an illegal resident not...

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NY prosecutor: Better SAT exam security is needed

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MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York prosecutor who charged seven teenagers in an SAT cheating scandal tells The Associated Press more can be done to...

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NC offers financial coaching for school workers

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WENDELL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina officials are launching an effort to help school employees get...

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New Teacher-Grant Program Could Herald Federal Shift

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Several high-profile teacher-training and -professional-development groups that recently lost federal set-asides—from Teach For America to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards—will have an opportunity to recapture some of that funding under the terms of a newly unveiled $25 million federal competition. ( "Programs Suffer Cuts in Funding," March 9, 2011.)

Yet unanswered is how many other groups will even be eligible to apply under the terms of the tightly written competition , which prioritizes activities similar to those of the formerly financed groups, is open only to national nonprofit organizations, and requires applicants to cite research evidence of their effectiveness.

“It’s a carve-out program that rewards programs with records of success,” said David A. DeSchryver, an expert on federal education grants. “They clearly have certain programs in mind, and they are investing in...

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Corridor Wit: Talking Back to Our Teachers

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L’esprit de l’escalier (staircase wit) is a French expression for the devastating riposte, the perfect comeback, that occurs to you only after the party is over, on the way up to bed. But I, for one, spent a lot more time sitting in classrooms as a kid than chatting at soirees as an adult, and many of those hours consisted of listening to my teachers’ vapid cliches and imperious demands. Of course I was too young to think of, and in any case too powerless to consider offering, the replies that these declarations deserved. But now? Care to join me for a session of l’esprit de couloir (corridor wit)?

I’m not talking about simple snark, even if it does afford a certain measure of satisfaction. In response to “Where do you think you’re going, young man?” we might have said, “Well, I’m fairly sure I’m going to the bathroom. Why? Where do you think I’m going?” Or, to the teacher who barked, “Take your feet off that desk! Is that the way you treat your furniture at home?” we could have replied, “Heck, no! That’s why I come to school.”

But those are merely snappy answers to stupid questions that just happened to take place in a classroom. What interests me are the overused and underthought pronouncements that reflected truly reactionary views of education and children. The fact that they were often delivered in a tone of smug self-satisfaction just enhances the pleasure of imagining what our replies might have been. Oh, for...

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Plan announced to fund Okla. education benefits

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin and legislative leaders will reimburse public school districts for the flexible health benefits paid for education employees during the...

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