Proven Sex-Ed Programs Get A Boost From Obama
NPR
In 1984, after years of study in what was then an emerging field, Carrera started a number of after-school programs that were sponsored by New York City's ...

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Major cuts: High schools face hard economic lessons
USA Today
In the Tupper Lake Central Schools in New York, the rural district in the Adirondacks will lose 25% of its instructional staff in the upcoming school year, ...

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Central Jersey School chiefs enjoying super salaries
myCentralJersy.com
The average superintendent salary in New York was $152782 while the average salary in Connecticut was $146906, according to that report. ...

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NY passes students who get wrong answers on school tests
New York Post
CLOSE ENOUGH: New York City fourth-graders were able to get partial credit for blank or incorrect answers on state math tests. A concerned teacher blew the ...

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A BEGINNING, NOT AN END Detroit graduates succeed despite gangs, drugs, fear ...
Detroit Free Press
Leonard Thomas wants to be a CEO at a Fortune 500 company, or perhaps move to Hollywood or New York to become a screen actor. ...

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Over decades, teacher pay rose slower than for all workers in NJ
Dailyrecord.com
Fast forward 25 years and the average New Jersey teacher's salary for the 2009-2010 school year is $65624, according to state Department of Education data, ...

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Caps studied as schools take 66% of property tax
Poughkeepsie Journal
Dutchess tied with Orange County for fifth place among New York counties with the highest percentage of property taxes going to schools. ...

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Kelly: A new politics as usual in Trenton
NorthJersey.com
In public education, the problems are far more complicated than building bridges and fixing potholes. But let's not kid ourselves: The teachers unions have ...

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Why should education be exempt from recession budgeting?
Washington Post
In New York state between 2000 and 2009, public schools added 15000 teachers while enrollment was declining by 121000 pupils. By 2008, New York's ...

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Westfield enjoys wealth of experience
Bizjournals.com (blog)
All figures are the most recent numbers available from the New York State Education Department. The database below has the relevant statistics for every ...
Special ratings: Teacher experienceBuffalo Business First

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The Kansas City School District works to erase a tragic history
Kansas City Star
It has happened in selected schools in the slums of New York and in Chicago, Charlotte, NC, and San Francisco. But what has not been discovered, ...

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The prosperity-hysteria two-step
Glens Falls Post-Star
In New York state between 2000 and 2009, public schools added 15000 teachers while enrollment was declining by 121000 pupils. By 2008, New York's ...

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Christian Science Monitor
Governor Christie Sets Sights on Teachers' Unions
Right Side News
(Sam Dillon, "States Create Flood of Education Bills," New York Times, 5/31/2010) Louisiana lawmakers handed Gov. Bobby Jindal his first significant victory ...
Wisconsin tries again for 'Race to the Top' education fundingLakeland Times
NY state asks feds for $696 million for 27 education projectsTimes Herald-Record
How Race to the Top is recasting education reform in AmericaChristian Science Monitor
New York Post
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Detroit graduates succeed despite gangs, drugs, fear; offer us hope
Detroit Free Press
Leonard Thomas wants to be a CEO at a Fortune 500 company, or perhaps move to Hollywood or New York to become a screen actor. ...

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The Weekend Interview with Madeleine Sackler: Storming the School Barricades
Wall Street Journal
Even then, there would be more work ahead: This year, some 40000 New York kids will end up on charter school waiting lists. "The public education system is ...

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First lady welcomes 500 chefs to White House
Washington Post
A series of speakers, from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and New York Public Schools Executive Chef Jorge Collazo to school lunch scholar Janet ...

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NYC may have to lay off teachers after all: mayor
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City might have to layoff 4400 teachers after all, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday, just two days after he granted them ...

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4-Day School Week Gaining Popularlity
KMBC Kansas City
From California to Minnesota to New York, districts -- mostly small, rural ones with less than 5000 students -- are following the trend, hoping to rescue ...

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Christian Science Monitor
Wisconsin tries again for 'Race to the Top' education funding
Lakeland Times
The new application requires school boards to establish such programs and to determine whether teachers and principals should to be relocated to ...
NY state asks feds for $696 million for 27 education projectsTimes Herald-Record
How Race to the Top is recasting education reform in AmericaChristian Science Monitor
NY ed. bigs 'furnish' better $chool planNew York Post

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Chicago Merit Pay Program Was Not Uniquely Flawed
Gapers Block (blog)
The testing regime our schools are plagued with rob children of an education. Teachers aren't car salesman: they can't be judged by a metric like gross ...
Questioning The Merits Of Merit PayProgress Illinois (blog)
Teachers can't be judged by testsAtlanta Journal Constitution
The Otherworldly Attack on Public EducationPolitical Affairs Magazine

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