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REL N

Education cuts coming, but fewer than GOP wanted - Washington Times - 1 views

www.washingtontimes.com/...eal-makes-giant-cuts-education

ADMS707 Niemeyer Federal Funding Cuts

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  • Striving Readers, a program to boost literacy rates among middle- and high-school students, takes a $250 million hit,
  • some programs not only were spared but will get more money than the administration was looking for. The Teaching of Traditional American History, designed to help fund classes devoted to U.S. history, will lose $73 million from 2010 levels but will get $46 million more this year than the administration requested.
  • Adult education will be cut by $31 million
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  • But the GOP is looking for bigger cuts and wants to reduce Pell Grant spending to “pre-stimulus levels,” cutting the annual federal allocation by about half while blaming Democrats for doubling the size of the program since Mr. Obama took office.
Phil Riddle

Texas Schools Face Deep Budget Cuts Amid Budget Crunch - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...20texas.h30.html

Budget Cuts Personnel Costs Fiscal Restraints

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  • Phil Riddle on 04 Feb 11
     
    I think Texas, like many states, are finding it more and more difficult to cut school budgets without letting go of personnel. They cannot skate around the issue any longer. In the words of the spokeswomen for the Texas Association of School Administrators, "There's no fat left."
REL N

House GOP Looks to Slash Education Spending - 2 views

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ADMS707 Federal Funding Cuts

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  • REL N on 13 Feb 11
     
    GOP proposes numerous cuts in federal education spending. Significantly reduces or eliminates programs that the President proposed in his recent State of the Union speech.
Victoria Schnettler

Update on State Budget Cuts for the US - 0 views

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ADMS707 budget cuts education America

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 12 Feb 11
     
    Gives a detailed look at state budget cuts in education across the American map.
Victoria Schnettler

Leaving Children Behind - 1 views

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ADMS707 education budget cuts Texas

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 28 Feb 11
     
    Texas budget cuts - very similar to Virginia - cut programs that ultimately harm our children and their education.
  • stephlennon on 04 Mar 11
     
    The last line is very sad..."Lose the future"...yet I feel this way here in VA as well!
stephlennon

Cuts slam K-12 education - 1 views

www2.timesdispatch.com/...-slam-k-12-education-ar-853880

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  • stephlennon on 21 Feb 11
     
    I think one of the quotes from this article sums it up best..."The governor and the House Appropriations Committee focus investment in higher education, economic development and transportation - while cutting K-12 education. This makes about as much sense as fixing the roof and repaving the driveway while ignoring the cracks in the foundation of your house."
Jonathan Becker

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superintendent budget finance equity virginia adms707

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  • Jonathan Becker on 20 Jan 11
     
    School superintendents protest against budget cuts
REL N

Why America's teachers are enraged - CNN.com - 0 views

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ADMS707 Niemeyer Teacher-evaluation reform states politics

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  • Right-to-work states do not have higher scores than states with strong unions. Actually, the states with the highest performance on national tests are Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Vermont, and New Hampshire, where teachers belong to unions that bargain collectively for their members.
  • One must wonder how it is possible to talk of improving schools while cutting funding, demoralizing teachers, cutting scholarships to college, and increasing class sizes.
  • REL N on 24 Feb 11
     
    If everyone agrees that teachers are important... why do they think that demoralizing them will improve students' experience and performance in school?
mirabilecp

Federal Funding Cuts From This Week - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...short-term_measure_cuts_a.html

ADMS707 budget cuts federal Mirabile

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  • mirabilecp on 05 Mar 11
     
    Reading Was Fundamental.....The 8% that comprises the federal part looks like a lot of money right now...
Phil Riddle

After-School Program Offers Enrichment to Pupils - 1 views

www.edweek.org/...23afterschool_ep.h30.html

After School Programs Low Income Students

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  • Phil Riddle on 09 Mar 11
     
    Seems like a great idea, but it might not be the best use of funds in a school district that has to cut back on programs that impact classrooms during normal school hours.
REL N

Highlights of Obama's 2012 spending plan - CNN.com - 0 views

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ADMS707 Niemeyer Budget

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  • REL N on 15 Feb 11
     
    Obama requested $77.4billion for education. The latest republican cuts included reductions in Pell Grants and other education line items.
Victoria Schnettler

The Pulse: Name that School, Trim That Deficit - 1 views

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deficit commercialism mayoral power corporations sponsorship

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 24 Jan 11
     
    Doritos High School....is that where you would like to attend, where your high school memories will be formed? The push and allowance of corporate sponsorship of schools are a response to impending and repeated education budget cuts.
mirabilecp

Danny Miller: Go See the Other Education Documentary: The Race to Nowhere - 4 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...e-iotheri-educat_b_722159.html

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  • mirabilecp on 01 Feb 11
     
    Wonder if VCU is hosting this new documentary?
  • REL N on 01 Feb 11
     
    As a parent of two children who participated in highly competitive programs, I am eager to see this movie. While I am impressed with the support and passion that some of their teachers provided, I (actually both my husband and I) at times wondered if the children were being pushed too much with an unintended consequence that there was less time to focus on the other parts of "growing up." We convinced our daughter to cut down to "only" 5 IB/AP classes in her senior year. She initially resisted but eventually found that the extra time was valuable. And, she was no worse off when getting to college. While she came into college with 36 IB/AP hours, only 12 were applied to her degree. I'm interested in feedback from educators too. It would seem that if they are tasked with moving the children through such aggressive programs they may find they lose sight of each child as an individual.
  • mirabilecp on 02 Feb 11
     
    Yes...I get it...I am an IB teacher myself. But, I have learned that no everyone wants to be an overachiever in that academic sort of way...and we should all be okay with that...thanks for your comment!
stephlennon

Message From Both Sides of the Mountain - 1 views

www.nbc29.com/...story.asp

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  • stephlennon on 20 Feb 11
     
    Solidarity is key! (so is spelling the title of the article correctly, but that did not seem to bother NBC 29!) Regardless- I am completely in support of collective forces saying that not only are the budget cuts unacceptable- but how dare anyone impose more mandates now.
Phil Riddle

Teach for America: Letting the Cream Rise - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2011022505002.html

Teach for America Budget Cuts Low income students

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  • Phil Riddle on 06 Mar 11
     
    A very positive view of Teach for America and the ability of that organization to improve educational outcomes. George Will makes some bold claims and doesn't substantiate them. "Until recently...it seemed that we simply did not know how to teach children handicapped by poverty and its accompaniments - family disintegration and destructive community cultures. Now we know exactly what to do."
REL N

Jack Jennings: Get the Federal Government Out of Education? That Wasn't the Founding Fa... - 0 views

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  • the answer isn't to eliminate federal involvement in education. That would be a wrong-headed move that ignores our country's history and would contribute to the decline of the United States. It's also a battle that has been fought and lost before because the stakes are simply too high.
  • Federal involvement began more than 225 years ago, even before George Washington was president, when Congress passed two laws -- the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 -- to create and maintain public schools in the expanding United States.
  • The specifics of federal land grants were outlined in each of the federal acts for admitting these states.
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  • the achievement gap narrowed between adolescent white and black students. And the percentage of children with disabilities who attended public school rose from only 20 percent in 1970 to 95 percent in 2007.
  • three-fourths of all college student aid comes from federal sources, whether through the tax code, direct grants or subsidized loans.
  • These indirect subsidies of education through the federal tax code total at least $21 billion for post-secondary education, and at least $17 billion for elementary and secondary education. These amounts are almost as significant as the direct grants made by the federal government to support education.
  • "Getting the federal government out of education" would endanger the progress made by -- among others -- children with disabilities, African-American children, and women and girls
  • The achievement gap between U.S. students and their international peers deprived the national economy of as much as $2.3 trillion in 2008, according to the McKinsey Quarterly.
  • How can the country raise academic achievement if 14,000 local school districts are each making their own decisions on most key aspects of education?
  • Over the course of American history, the national government has aimed to better educate the citizenry as a basis for democracy and economic prosperity. Today, our nation must act with greater, not less, unity to improve schools.
  • REL N on 25 Feb 11
     
    Those who can afford to pay for all private K-12 and college expenses for their children may not care if the Federal government is involved in our education system. All the rest of the country needs to take heed and acknowledge the need for continued and expanded federal involvement. Without sounding flippant... do you suppose that those who might be leading the charge to get the Federal government out of education and make draconian cuts in social programs under the guise that tax burdens are too high and individualism trumps social justice are the same millionaires and billionaires who fund the tea party et al.? Sadly, the "regular folk" who are falling for that rhetoric do not recognize that they are paving their own way to..... [let's just say poverty].
Tara McDaniel

House Floats Plan to Keep Government Running, Scrap K-12 Programs - 1 views

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ADMS707 education politics

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  • Tara McDaniel on 04 Mar 11
     
    Cut literacy and sped programs...let's all get excited!
  • Victoria Schnettler on 04 Mar 11
     
    makes me ill.
REL N

Increase in education administrators causes New York State's public school spending to ... - 0 views

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NIemeyer ADMS707 Superintendents

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  • The number of supervisory staff in public schools increased to 42,000 this year from 31,332 in 1997, even as student enrollment statewide fell and performance rankings sat stagnant, according to a Post analysis of state Education Department data. The state's student population dropped to 2.7 million from 2.8 million -- or 4.6 percent -- during that period.
  • According to the governor's research, 223 (33 percent) of school-district superintendents earn more than $175,000.
  • Heads of the smallest districts, which oversee up to 250 students, would get a $125,000 cap.
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  • The largest, with more than 6,501 students, would see a $175,000 cap.
  • School officials say state and federal mandates have, since the mid-1990s, forced them to cut class sizes, beef up teacher evaluations, improve special education, increase the amount of Regents diplomas, and enhance internal financial accounting.
  • REL N on 07 Apr 11
     
    Some interesting numbers and ideas to consider, although it is important to consider the source... The NY Post.
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