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The London School of Economics has denied reports that the university is considering “going private” in response to the coalition government’s announced plans to cut its contribution to university teaching budgets by as much as 40 percent. Related For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web (November 1, 2010) “It’s not true,” Adrian Hall, the school’s secretary, said in a statement circulated to students.
When it opened in 1998, the Shuang Wen Academy was heralded as a new kind of boutique public school, rooted in a mission of cross-cultural understanding. Small and open to children of any background, it was billed as the nation’s first dual-language English-Mandarin public school, teaching fluency in both languages.
Tuesday night was busy and chilly on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx, even if most eyes and minds were focused a few miles south, where the Yankees were hosting a playoff game. Out of the darkness around 7:30, squeezing through the doors of crowded buses and descending the steps from an elevated train platform, about 40 football players walked one by one across uneven sidewalks lugging shoulder pads, cleats and brightly painted helmets. Related Where Football Means Business (October 23, 2010) Interviews, insight and analysis from The Times on the competition and culture of college football.
A big legal battle is brewing between New York City’s education department and the local teachers union over the recently announced plan to issue public rankings of teachers based on how their students perform on tests.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – County officials in central Missouri argued Tuesday that they should not be required to pay to educate a 16-year-old girl awaiting trial for the alleged murder of a young neighbor. Attorneys for Alyssa Bustamante have asked the Missouri Supreme Court to order officials in Cole County to pay for her education.
Correction Appended With Michelle Rhee ’s decision to resign Wednesday as the Washington schools chancellor, the movement to shake up the nation’s public schools is losing perhaps its most visible leader. Enlarge This Image Alex Wong/Getty Images At a briefing, from right, Michelle Rhee, the departing chief of the Washington schools; Kaya Henderson, interim chancellor; Vincent Gray, likely the next mayor; and Mayor Adrian Fenty
President Obama created a grant program to copy his block-by-block approach to ending poverty. The British government praised his charter schools as a model. And a new documentary opening across the country revolves around him: Geoffrey Canada , the magnetic Harlem Children’s Zone leader with strong ideas about how American education should be fixed.
NEW YORK — Do public school teachers get tenure just by breathing?
ATLANTA – Groups hoping to open charter schools across the country could soon have millions more dollars available. The Charter School Growth Fund is announcing a $160 million fundraising campaign Wednesday — the largest-ever aimed at helping start more of the nontraditional public schools nationwide. The goal is to establish 335,000 more spots for children at charter schools in the next decade
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — New Jersey has already thrown enough money at its largest school district to make it among the nation’s best-funded, yet it remains in the pits. Can a $100 million gift from the founder of Facebook really turn it around? The money hasn’t even arrived, but it’s already creating a buzz in Newark, where three out of five third-graders can’t read and write at their grade level