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Angela Winston

State Education Finance and Governance Profile: Virginia - Peabody Journal of Education - 0 views

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    Describes Education Governance and Finance in Virginia...read all about it! yeyy U.Va.
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Jeb Bush Finds New Role as Education Adviser - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • One out of five state school superintendents have joined a group that his national foundation created, Chiefs for Change, to rally behind a common agenda.
  • Mr. Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. The nonprofit group received contributions of $2.9 million in 2009, from the foundations of Bill Gates and Eli Broad, among others, and for-profit education technology companies.
  • By eighth grade, Florida students begin to lose their advantage on the NAEP, and by 12th grade, they fall behind national averages.
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  • Skeptics point out that other changes could explain the improvements in test scores. In 2002, voters passed one of the nation’s most ambitious class-size reduction plans, over the objections of Mr. Bush. School financing, including for reading coaches, also rose.
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    Gerard Robinson (the Secretary of Education in Virginia) joined Chiefs for Change... along with a number of other governors from the south. Oh, yes and Chris Christy.
Victoria Schnettler

VDOE Staff Names & Numbers - 1 views

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    Staff directory for Virginia Department of Education
Victoria Schnettler

Code of Virginia - 0 views

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    Title 22.1 - Education - State laws regarding education policy.
stephlennon

Message From Both Sides of the Mountain - 1 views

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    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.
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Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Among 18-to-33-year-olds, the project said in a report last year, blogging dropped two percentage points in 2010 from two years earlier.
  • Former bloggers said they were too busy to write lengthy posts and were uninspired by a lack of readers. Others said they had no interest in creating a blog because social networking did a good enough job keeping them in touch
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    Many of us said that we found writing in the blog difficult because it took a lot of time to craft the "perfect" text. This article explains how many are shifting from blogging to social networks as a more convenient way to quickly share updates.
Roger Mancastroppa

State jobs directed to private companies to remedy budget shortfall | HeraldTribune.com - 0 views

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    So Florida is privatizing its public sector jobs to private industry which has not proven reliable in the past. Go figure.
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