Chicago cut funding for assistant principals in small schools. Most chose to keep them anyway. – Chalkbeat Chicago

CPS proposes cuts after adding positions that enrollment, finances couldn’t justify

Chicago Public Schools followed Chicago Teachers Union’s staffing-first approach. Now the district faces cuts. The post CPS proposes cuts after adding positions that enrollment, finances couldn’t justify appeared first on Illinois Policy.

CPS proposes cuts after adding positions that enrollment, finances couldn’t justify – Illinois Policy

The proposed assistant principal cuts show what happens when Chicago Public Schools adopts the Chicago Teachers Union’s staffing-first approach, prioritizing that over fiscal discipline and student results.

Lower suspensions, but no clear system for discipline in private schools

Lower suspensions, but no clear system for discipline in private schools

Getting paid while being gone … * WorldNetDaily * by Jeremy Portnoy, Real Clear Wire

Source link Topline: A Missouri school superintendent made out with perhaps the best rate of pay in the history of public schooling. Salary: 249,167. Hours worked: Zero. The Francis Howell

Chicago Public Schools officials aim to pass budget early amid $700 million deficit

CHICAGO — Amid a projected deficit of over 700 million, Chicago Public Schools officials said they aim to have the district’s budget for the upcoming school year approved by the end of July, a month earlier than last year, in part to secure ...

School Principals I Have Known: Oliver Deex

Although I have never served as a principal, I have been a student under elementary and secondary school principals and worked for six high school principals as a social studies teacher. As a district superintendent in Arlington (VA), I supervised Continue reading

Georgia district quietly trained teachers to blame 'Whiteness,' 'decolonize' under federal crackdown: report

City Schools of Decatur allegedly hid race-based policies from federal oversight after embedding DEI ideology in teacher training and curriculum, a watchdog group reports.

How This Former Chicago Public School Teacher Bought a Franchise and Grew It to $2M Annual Revenue

Joe Becker was a teacher for 11 years in some of the roughest neighborhoods in Chicago.

Unions Are Fighting Yesterday’s Education Debate

Leaders of the nation’s largest teachers unions recently sent a letter urging Democratic governors to refrain from participating in the new federal Education Freedom Tax Credit. Their message was all too familiar: They believe this initiative threatens public education and it should be rejected.

New superintendents put teacher protection at top of policy agenda

New superintendents put teacher protection at top of policy agenda

OUSD’s superintendent went around her own team on the budget. Then she brought down the axe

OUSD’s superintendent went around her own team on the budget. Then she brought down the axe In December, Superintendent Denise Saddler sent the board a budget plan her chief of staff and finance chief had never seen. Days later, they were both gone.

Raising them right: What gifts, if any, do teachers actually want this June?

How much should you spend, who should you buy for, and do teachers really need or want a gift as the school term ends?

Board of Education Moves Forward on Raising Standards

by Derrick Max Yesterday, the Virginia Board of Education voted by a near majority to reject a proposal to delay the implementation of more rigorous Standard of Learning cut scores. I was honored to testify before the Board, along with Arlington Democrat Todd Truitt — who really has been a leader on this important issue. A handful of other parents []

Delaware General Assembly roundup: Public school funding

When Delaware’s legislative session came to an end early Wednesday morning, lawmakers had approved a string of education bills that reform how the state and how school districts collect and distribute money for schools. The post Delaware General Assembly roundup: Public school funding appeared first on Spotlight Delaware.

California Promised Billions For School Mental Health. Instead, Districts Got A Paperwork Nightmare

When the staff at Plumas Charter School first heard about California’s plan to fund on-campus mental health care, it seemed like the perfect solution for a rural community short on doctors. The small school had endured a brutal stretch of student trauma, including pandemic isolation, nearby wildfires, and a car accident that killed a classmate. [] California Promised Billions For School Mental Health. Instead, Districts Got A Paperwork Nightmare

Academic turf war between California colleges underscores need for new higher education plan

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When the Legislature passed the Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960, it envisioned a seamless, three-level system that would provide high-quality and low-cost instruction benefiting both those seeking careers and society as a whole. Under the plan, community colleges would specialize in []

Parents pay $10,000 a year to send their children to this Sydney private school. But it doesn’t pay its teachers wages

Teacher salaries account for about two-thirds of every school’s expenditure. But not at Redeemer Baptist School.

Institutional Trend Following Plan

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Parents could be on the hook in new Raleigh curfew ordinance

While the specifics of a juvenile curfew haven’t been ironed out, city leaders are considering holding parents more accountable as they continue to tweak an ordinance.

Technology in schools disconnects kids from teachers, parent says

There's a big discrepancy between the leadership in the district and the actual teachers, Lower Merion parent Yair Lev said.

Illinois School District Spends $360,000 so Boys Can Change in Girls’ Locker Rooms

Deerfield public schools would rather spend 360,000 defending its policies than tell a gender-confused boy he cannot go into the girls' locker room. The post Illinois School District Spends 360,000 so Boys Can Change in Girls’ Locker Rooms first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

New principals face steep learning curves

Transitioning from teaching to school administration is a significant challenge that graduate programs often do not fully pre -More-

Some Microschools in Limbo While Awaiting New Federal Tax Credit Rules

Public schools are beginning to imagine ways they can benefit from the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, after the Treasury Department clarified last month that district students will be eligible for scholarships. But for microschools, a growing segment of the private school market, the initial guidance from federal officials has left school leaders worried they []

अनुमतिबिना विदेशी शैक्षिक कार्यक्रम सञ्चालन गर्नेलाई कारबाहीको चेतावनी

काठमाडौं। शिक्षा तथा खेलकुद मन्त्रालयले ए–लेभल, सिबिएसइ, आइबिडिपीलगायत विदेशी शैक्षिक कार्यक्रम मन्त्रालयको अनुमतिबिना सञ्चालन गर्ने शैक्षिक संस्थामाथि कारबाही गर्ने चेतावनी दिएको छ। गत बुधबारको मन्त्रिपरिषद्ले विदेशी सम्बन्धनका नाममा सञ्चालन भइरहेका शैक्षिक कार्यक्रमको गुणस्तर सुधार तथा नियमनलाई थप प्रभावकारी बनाउन विदेशी शैक्षिक कार्यक्रम (सञ्चालन र नियमन) नियमावली, २०८३ स्वीकृत गरेसँगै मन्त्रालयले कानुनी व्यवस्था कार्यान्वयनमा कडाइ गरेको []

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A new white paper from NWEA, and its accompanying op-ed in The Hill, claim that districts are more likely to permanently shutter schools with a high proportion of poor and/or Black students, even after controlling for enrollment patterns. Which made me think: Here we go again. As with previous analyses from other scholars, it plays the greatest hits: document that Black and poor students are overrepresented in some unfortunate circumstance (in this case, school closures), control for one or two Read More

Ross Wiener: I Supported NCLB. I Was Wrong.

Ross Wiener worked for Education Trust, a DC-based advocacy group that claimed to support low-income children of color. Funded by the Gates Foundation, among others, Education Trust enthusiastically defended No Child Left Behind and standardized testing as ways to improve the lot of the neediest students. When NCLB was reauthorized in 2015, critics of standardized []

City declines to use reserve funds to prevent BPS layoffs as more than 560 positions are cut

Faced with continued enrollment declines, school officials in Boston say that their new budget maintains a 10:1 student to teacher ratio. The post City declines to use reserve funds to prevent BPS layoffs as more than 560 positions are cut appeared first on Boston.com.

A new GOP bill aims to make the transfer of millions of student-loan accounts to Treasury official

Rep. Tim Walberg introduced a bill to allow the transfer of student-loan account management from the Education Department to the Treasury. Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images House GOP introduced a slate of bills intended to “right-size” the Education Department. One of the bills codifies the department’s plan to transfer student-loan accounts to the Treasury. The []

LAUSD faces 'severe' signs of insolvency; county warns it could take control of budget

L.A. County education officials say union contracts LAUSD couldn't afford have pushed the district toward insolvency. They threaten to appoint an overseer who can block the school board's spending.

'Final Mission': Education Department shuffling under other agencies

'Final Mission': Education Department shuffling under other agencies

A ‘coherent, modernised governance framework is urgently required’ for NI schools, Audit Office warns

Locals schools set-up ‘complex and historically fragmented’ leading to little consistency in how schools manage public funds

More Teachers Considering an Exit as DPM Makes Plea for Vacancy Fillers

More Teachers Considering an Exit as DPM Makes Plea for Vacancy Fillers

How Schools Can Stay Safe

Conversations with Kevin Hogan: Clever’s Head of Education Strategy Jeff Carlson on the state of school district security

After Months of Budget Protests, Advocates Learned Clinic Closures Were Never Up for Debate

Patients, clinicians and union members spent months urging the mayor and Board of Supervisors to restore funding, only to discover clinic consolidations were a Department of Public Health operational decision. The post After Months of Budget Protests, Advocates Learned Clinic Closures Were Never Up for Debate appeared first on San Francisco Public Press.

Bor County education conference adopts bold public school reforms

The education department in Jonglei State’s Bor County, in partnership with education partners, on Tuesday The post Bor County education conference adopts bold public school reforms appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.