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Bob Griffin - School Board Seat C
Name: Bob Griffin Occupation: Retired Fighter Pilot, current Airline Pilot and union member Registered Political Party: Like most Alaskans, I'm very independent and not affiliated with any political party, but I consider myself "conservative". Why...Tags: Government, Examinations, Federal Income Tax, State Income Tax, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Treg Taylor - School Board Seat D
Name: Treg Taylor Why running for School Board? My two primary motivations are as a taxpayer and as the father of three beautiful daughters, two of which are old enough to attend a public elementary school. We have such an awesome opportunity to...Tags: Elections, Colleges and Universities, Apprentices, Alaska, Budgets and Budgeting
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READER SUBMITTED: CREC's Metropolitan Learning Center In Bloomfield Ranked A Top 20 Connecticut High School
BloomfieldCREC's Metropolitan Learning Center for Global and International Studies was recently ranked 17th among the state's nearly 200 high schools reviewed by U.S. News and World Report. The school's rank also comes with a "Silver Award," placing it among the...Tags: High Schools, U.S. Department of Education, Teaching and Learning, Students, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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Now's the time to raise the bar for Baltimore schools
As the founder of KIPP Baltimore, which operates two high-performing public charter schools in the city, I am heartened and encouraged by our progress over the past six years under schools CEO Andrés Alonso. As I move to a new role as executive director...
Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Charter Schools, Human Interest, Students
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Preparation for new evaluations begins
RAPID CITY — School districts in South Dakota will receive handbooks that can be used in evaluating teachers and administrators when the new state requirement takes effect in 2014. The state Department of Education also will offer an Internet...Tags: Teachers, U.S. Department of Education, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Students
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California won't get relief from No Child Left Behind law
The federal government made it clear again Monday that California will get no relief from education mandates that officials across the country consider a burden. The point was made as the U.S. Department of Education announced that it granted three more...
Tags: U.S. Department of Education, Teaching and Learning, Students, Arne Duncan
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Diversity and choice key for city schools
We share the editorial view that outgoing Baltimore City Schools CEO Andrés Alonso created a strong platform to sustain ongoing improvement in our schools ("School reform 2.0," May 12). But the editorial's call for more standardization around the system...
Tags: Standards, Charter Schools, Science and Technology
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Merit pay: Value-added rules delayed, based on legislation, public comments
The effort to hammer out new, statewide rules for how to use value-added test score data in teacher evaluations will take longer than planned. That is not surprising, the Florida Department of Education said, as officials knew that the Legislature could...Tags: Rick Scott, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
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So much state testing, so little scrutiny
In the past few weeks we have heard horror stories from throughout Indiana about testing under ISTEP+ -- particularly the overload of the computer system and the failure of the testing company's servers to handle the testing. This caused Indiana to...Tags: Teachers, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Students
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Education gets a boost from lawmakers
Florida lawmakers took on an ambitious education agenda in their session that ended Friday, voting to beef up school budgets, provide raises to teachers, revamp high-school graduation requirements and more. Here are some of the key items, most of...
Tags: Justice System, Teachers, Lobbying, Rick Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Dim view on Emanuel education policy, Tribune poll finds
Chicago voters hold a dim view of Rahm Emanuel's stewardship of public education after a tumultuous year that featured a teachers strike and the mayor's push to close many neighborhood elementary schools, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows....
Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Teachers, Family, Barack Obama, Polls
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School reform 2.0
With city schools CEO Andrés Alonso's announcement last week that he is stepping down at the end of this school year, Baltimore finds itself in the market for a new leader who can continue and expand upon the reforms he instituted. Whoever succeeds Mr....
Tags: Teachers, Bernard C. Young, Teaching and Learning, Corporate Officers
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