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Hartford School Board Appoints Four School Principals; Postpones A Fifth After Union Concerns
The Hartford CourantThe board of education confirmed the appointments of four school principals Tuesday night, including new leaders for Jumoke Academy at Milner School, Breakthrough Magnet School and Pathways Academy of Technology and Design. But in a rare move, the...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, East Hartford, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Politics
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Class of 2013 Is a Whole New Ballgame
As the class of 2013 dispenses with college, reflects on commencement oratory and embraces quests beyond the campus cocoon, the rest of us would do well to consider their context and our choice. This is a class rooted in the last century (born in 1991),...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Employment Opportunities, Business, Human Accomplishments, Science and Technology
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W.Va. house sends education measure to governor
West Virginia would change how county school districts hire teachers, free up more days on their calendars to bolster student instruction and require full-week schooling for 4-year-olds statewide, under legislation sent to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Friday....Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Teachers, Students, Teaching and Learning
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As needs deepen, SD Legislature switches to planned process
The 2013 session of the Legislature showed we have deepening, serious problems in rural South Dakota. A law was passed creating a tuition-payback program for lawyers. They have to go to rural counties — those with fewer than 10,000 populations...Tags: Financial Aid, Teaching and Learning, Parties and Movements, Peace Corps, Republican Party
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Tomblin's proposed W.Va. school overhaul clears first hurdle
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin saw his proposed overhaul of public schools clear its first legislative hurdle Tuesday when the Senate Education Committee endorsed the bill with modest changes to language addressing teacher hiring and the school calendar. Advanced...Tags: Government, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Regional Authority, Politics
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Letters: Who should teach?
Re "New rules for interns in schools," March 8 The problem with putting teaching interns from programs like Teach for America into classrooms with English-language learners isn't the interns' lack of competence teaching such students; it's their lack of...
Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Students, Science and Technology, Apprentices
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Sam Zell's wife donates $50 million to Michigan creative writing
In my book, donating money to support creative writing programs is generally a good thing. But I'm -- hmm, let's call it conflicted -- over a $50-million donation to the University of Michigan's MFA program in creative writing from Helen Zell, wife of Sam...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, University of Michigan, Chicago Tribune, Tribune Company, Human Interest
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A Teach for America fight
In California, teachers whose students include English learners are required by state law to have special certification. That's sensible, given the special challenges that come with running a classroom in which not all children are equally proficient in...
Tags: Teachers, Students, Teaching and Learning, Unions, Los Angeles Unified School District
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Legislators make rapid decisions about bills
PIERRE — Down to four working days to wrap up the 2013 session, state legislators moved rapidly through final decisions on many bills Wednesday, including approval of millions of dollars in one-time aid to public schools and start-up of a program...Tags: U.S. Senate, Phyllis Heineman, Separation of Church and State, Justice System, Lawyers
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SD Senate approves extra $6-million for schools
PIERRE, S.D. - The South Dakota Senate has approved a measure that would spend more than $6 million to provide a one-time boost in state aid to school districts and technical schools. Senators voted unanimously to pass the bill, which now goes to the...
Tags: Schools, Dennis Daugaard
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Meet the L.A. school board candidates
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Gavin Newsom says the revolution will be digitized
-------------------- Citizenville How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey Penguin Press: 272 pp., $25.95 -------------------- California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has a lot more time on his hands than...
Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Peace Corps, Literature, Same-Sex Marriage
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Mar 6, 2013
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