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Alexander Russo issues his thoughts on Spellings’s proposed changes of the SES/choice requirements in NCLB.  Read more »

Gotta hand it to the Lakeland Ledger–as demonstrated here, they’re nothing if not consistent.  Read more »

The California Supreme Court issued a stay: The California Supreme Court today reinstated the state’s high school exit exam one week after a Superior Court judge issued a preliminary injunction against the test that students need to pass to graduate. The high court granted a request by the state education department to lift the injunction […] Read more »

The Roosevelt Union Free School District on Long Island spends around $10,500 per student, more than $2000 above the state average.  For special ed students, they spend (hold on to your hat) nearly $32,000 per pupil, 80% more than the statewide average.  An acquaintance who grew up on Long Island said Roosevelt is infamous for […] Read more »

"Is our children learning?"  Here in sunny Arizona, apparently they don’t learn to avoid doing really, really stupid things. Police weren’t laughing Monday over a supposed "senior prank" by a Peoria High School student they accused of showing up on campus wearing a ski mask. Police were called and the school, 11200 N. 83rd Ave., […] Read more »

No, really–that’s the name of the school: At the new Bioscience High School in Phoenix, students will tap data into laptop computers and splice DNA in labs that would rival what is typically seen at colleges and research facilities. The school building itself will be a teaching tool, with invisible sound barriers between study areas, […] Read more »

School choice activists gathered recently at a conference hosted by the Gleason Foundation were treated to words of wisdom from an unlikely source: Bill Clinton’s political guru, Dick Morris. Read more »

Connecting the dots… School Me earlier said Villaraigosa’s appeasement of smaller cities wanting greater autonomy from LAUSD weakened his takeover efforts.  The LA Daily News cheers on the move of the smaller cities.  School Me now suggests the ongoing disorganization of the mayor’s opponents have increased the odds of takeover.  It sounds like the mayor […] Read more »

Education Partnership in Rhode Island has released a new report blasting teachers union contracts.  Anchor Rising has the goods.  Read more »

Villaraigosa is making some concessions: Bowing to pressure from neighboring cities, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has amended his takeover plan for Los Angeles area public schools to grant their mayors veto power on all decisions except the budget. Villaraigosa originally hoped to get a bill before the Legislature that would grant the Los Angeles mayor 80 […] Read more »