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Education News for Monday, July 3

LA Unified losing staff to charters – Amid the continuing growth of charter schools in Los Angeles, hundreds of teachers and administrators have left the city’s school system to take jobs at the independently run campuses. (more)

"Data" proves each side’s schools case – The high-stakes public relations battle over Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s bid to take over Los Angeles public schools has escalated into a duel as much over statistics as over politics. (more)

Give PA parents more choices to educate their children – The Educational Investment Tax Credit (EITC) program set up by the commonwealth more than five years ago hardly addresses the demands of Pennsylvania parents looking to transfer their children out of public school. (more)

School choice offers much – Polling indicates that 90 percent of Arizonans approve of school choice and the Legislature was apparently paying attention. (more)

FL teachers’ union plan blitz on NCLB – The head of the country’s largest education union said Sunday that teachers welcome the accountability measures imposed by the No Child Left Behind Act – and will demand the same from Congress when the measure comes up for renewal in 2007. (more)

UPDATE:

Swann and education – If Lynn Swann is daring Pennsylvanians to take his "comprehensive" education reform policy seriously, the Republican gubernatorial nominee will be ignored. Especially when voters learn what he ignored. (more)

Graduation rates improving, chancellor says – In signs that New York City’s historically abysmal high school graduation rates are on a solid upswing, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein reported strong numbers yesterday for the senior classes at 15 of the new small high schools that are a centerpiece of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s effort to revamp the school system. (more)