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The New York City Department of Education said Thursday that up to 47 schools could be closed for poor performance, a huge increase from previous years if all remain on the chopping block. In the eight years since Mayor Michael R.
NEW YORK – Obama’s ambitious education agenda is in peril, as his allies face firing at the polls in November. Dana Goldstein on the shaky state of school reform.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says almost every chance he gets that Republicans would cut education spending by 20 percent if their party wins control of Congress in the Nov. 2 elections. He also says they would repeal a new college tuition tax credit.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to make permanent a $2,500 college tuition tax credit that’s set to expire at the end of the year. The American Opportunity Tax Credit was included in the $814 billion economic stimulus bill Obama signed last year.
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.
When New York State made its standardized English and math tests tougher to pass this year, causing proficiency rates to plummet, it said it was relying on a new analysis showing that the tests had become too easy and that score inflation was rampant.
NEW YORK — Do public school teachers get tenure just by breathing?
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says Republicans sharpening their budget ax would damage the American economy by taking a big whack at education spending. Opening a meeting of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board on Monday, Obama said he agrees with the GOP that America’s fiscal situation is “untenable,” but its plans would force a 20 percent cut in education funding. He said that “just doesn’t make sense” at a time when the economy’s struggling and other countries are becoming fiercer competitors
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
Educate to Innovate : President Obama has launched the “Educate to Innovate” effort to improve U.S. students’ participation and performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).