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Jeff Bernstein

Education Week: N.J. Auditor Says Stop Using Free-Lunch Data to Determine Aid - 0 views

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    Thousands of students getting free or reduced-cost school lunches may not be eligible for the program, a report released by the state auditor this week finds. But school districts have little incentive to question applications because a higher participation rate also increases their state aid, the report states.
Jeff Bernstein

Dispiriting Numbers on Education, Civil Rights - 0 views

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    The Civil Rights data simply sheds more light on what those of us advocating for equity in the states have known for decades: the enormous disparities in the opportunity to learn for students in low wealth, high poverty communities as compared to their more advantaged peers in more affluent public schools and districts.
Jeff Bernstein

When Policy and Politics Collide - 0 views

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    When policy and politics collide, the outcome is telling.  A recent exchange between a legislator from another district and our superintendent escalated into a public spectacle when the senator represented his views to a columnist who then issued a scathing article headlined, "State Senator Puts School Superintendent in His Place".  We believe that our public should be allowed to consider the evidence and decide for itself.
Jeff Bernstein

Sen. Patty Murray Introduces FOCUS Class Size Legislation | Education News - 0 views

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    U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the Facilitating Outstanding Classrooms Using Size Reduction (FOCUS) Act of 2011 [bill summary, PDF], which the Senator says would provide states with the resources they need to reduce class sizes across the early grade levels in order to provide students and teachers with an educational environment that encourages maximum student academic growth. Murray's bill will also put in place evaluation tools to assess the program's effectiveness.
Jeff Bernstein

School Finance for High Achievement: Improving Student Performance in Tough Times - 0 views

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    This report describes a symposium conducted by New York State Education Department on September 13, 2011 in the Huxley Museum Theater at the Cultural Education Center in Albany.  It includes a paper prepared by the State Education Department on fiscal challenges facing school districts, presentations by education researchers Marguerite Roza and Stephen Frank about rethinking education resource use for greater student achievement and a summary of the session.  
Jeff Bernstein

Randi Weingarten on Jobs Bill and Education Funds - C-SPAN Video Library - 0 views

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    Randi Weingarten talked about possible impact of the $30 billion for schools included in President Obama's jobs bill, and she responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Other topics included the No Child Left Behind waiver proposed by the Obama administration, the Occupy Wall Street protests, and the role education could play in the 2012 elections.
Jeff Bernstein

Daily Kos: Starving America's Public Schools - financially - an important new report - 0 views

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    This week a critically important new report was jointly released by the National Education Association and Campaign for America's Future. It was written by our own Jeff Bryant, who isalso  a Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future, and who led a panel (on which I participated) at that organization's recent Take Back the American Dream Conference.  Jeff's most recent post here, If We Want 'Great Teachers,' Don't We Need To Give Them Jobs?, refers to the report he authored.
Jeff Bernstein

New York's Mayor Bloomberg joins fray over control of state school board | NOLA.com - 0 views

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    New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who kicked off his own controversial reform effort in New York City schools almost a decade ago, is now jumping directly into the fray over public education in New Orleans. State filings show Bloomberg, whose media empire had already made him a billionaire before he became mayor and took control of New York City schools, signed a $5,000 check this month to help get Kira Orange Jones get elected to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Jeff Bernstein

Similar Problems, Different Response: "We Are Public Education" - 0 views

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    Thousands of people from all over Spain demonstrated Saturday October 22nd in Madrid against severe austerity measures affecting public education in several Spanish regions. The march on Madrid, which attracted more than 100,000 protesters - huge by Spanish standards - was jointly organized by national education unions and the national parents' association, CEAPA. Taking part in the protest, a somewhat unprecedented coalition: educators, parents, and students.
Jeff Bernstein

Memphis schools grapple with maintaining Gates reforms after money runs out » The Commercial Appeal - 0 views

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    Two years into work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve teacher effectiveness, city school officials have determined that the financial outlook has changed so much that the effort will be unsustainable without a major retooling. By revamping teacher salaries -- paying for test results instead of degrees or years of service -- Memphis City Schools leaders hope to find a big chunk of the $34 million a year it will take to keep going when the Gates money stops in 2015.
Jeff Bernstein

Education Shouldn't be an Unfair Game! | School Finance 101 - 0 views

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    "A common claim these days, either in political rhetoric or in the context of litigation over the equity and adequacy of state school finance systems is that money simply doesn't matter. The amount of money we put into any school or district is inconsequential to the outcomes children achieve or quality of education they receive. The public schooling system is simply a money black hole! Thus, it matters not how much money we throw at the system generally and it matters not whether some children get more than others. Further, it matters not whether children with greater educational needs have resources comparable to those with lesser needs and greater preexisting advantages. Yes, these arguments are contradicted by the vast body of empirical evidence which finds otherwise! And these arguments are often used to deflect emphasis from disparities in resources across children that are egregious on their face, and often not merely a function of state legislative neglect of state school finance systems, but state legislative actions to drive more public resources to those already more advantaged. And things are only getting worse."
Jeff Bernstein

Here are all policy changes proposed in Tisch and Berlin's response to Cuomo | Chalkbeat - 0 views

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    "Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and soon-to-be acting Education Commissioner Elizabeth Berlin offered a host of proposals that would dramatically change education policy in New York state in a 20-page letter released Wednesday."
Jeff Bernstein

When public schools get more money, students do better - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    "More recent research, however, has found that when schools have more money, they are able to give their students a better education. A new study on those who went to school during the school-finance cases a few decades ago found that those who attended districts that were affected by the rulings were more likely to stay in school through high school and college and are making more money today."
Jeff Bernstein

The Big Error of School Accountability - Living in Dialogue - 0 views

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    "With the debate over testing roiling Congress and state capitals nationwide, it is important to recognize the damage done to American pedagogy by high-stakes testing and the deleterious effects of punitive accountability on the students who depend on public schools."
Jeff Bernstein

Hunger Games Comes to New York State's Public Schools - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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    "The same billionaires who just bought the New York State Senate now want to own public education. It's starve, test, and destroy."
Jeff Bernstein

The Cost of Stupid: Families for Excellent Schools Totally Bogus Analysis of NYC Schools | School Finance 101 - 0 views

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    "Families for Excellent Schools of New York - the Don't Steal Possible folks - has just released an impossibly stupid analysis in which they claim that New York City is simply throwing money at failure. Spending double on failing schools what they do on totally awesome ones (if they really have any awesome ones)."
Jeff Bernstein

NYSED Recommends "Teacher Effectiveness Gnomes" to Fix Persistent Inequities | School Finance 101 - 0 views

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    "As I've pointed out over, and over and over again on this blog, NY State maintains one of the least equitable educational systems in the nation."
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