Archive for August 2014
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August 29, 2014
Last-minute effort to enhance early learning educators
(Calif.) As part of a larger effort to give more of the state’s youngest residents a strong start in school, lawmakers are still moving two proposals that would require additional child development courses for preschool and early-kindergarten teachers plus provide the funding to pay for it.
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August 29, 2014
LAO: State should revise mission of CDE
(Calif.) Lawmakers should consider revising the mission of the California Department of Education from one of school district regulator to more of a collaborative, service-based organization, the non-partisan Legislative Analyst suggested Thursday.
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August 28, 2014
Ohio imposes new readiness goals as Common Core debated
(Ohio) Even as the state has imposed new college- and career-readiness requirements on its students, political force is gaining behind a bill to stop implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
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August 28, 2014
Truancy package, apprenticeship, epinephrine bills OK’d
(Calif.) As the final week of the current Legislative session nears its end, a slew of education bills is headed to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk this week that include efforts to improve student attendance, academic achievement and career readiness.
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August 27, 2014
Testing snafu leaves thousands of disabled students in limbo
(Calif.) With classes underway in most school districts statewide, teachers assigned instruction of some 40,000 cognitively disabled students have been left in academic limbo without an applicable set of content standards or assessment to teach to.
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August 26, 2014
The Bayou state takes on U.S. Dept. of Ed - rightfully
Louisiana’s new graduation requirements for students with disabilities (SWD) are not sitting well with Washington D.C. and that’s ok. Personalized objectives with carefully tailored instruction are what matter and what recent legislation guarantees.
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August 26, 2014
Confusion surrounds simplified mandate process
(Calif.) Three years after the state successfully moved schools into a block grant to help reduce its education mandate debt, new attention is being focused on the declining number of districts continuing to file claims for required activities not covered under the new system.
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August 26, 2014
Brown signs bill giving services to bullying victims
(Calif.) Victims of bullying will begin receiving the same mental health services already provided to their attackers beginning in January of next year.
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August 25, 2014
No Common Core update planned for history
(Colo.) First came math and English-language arts. Then science. It would seem logical that the next core subject to be aligned with the Common Core State Standards would be history.
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August 25, 2014
Feds expand student meal program
(Calif.) There’s no such thing as a free lunch, or so the saying goes, but don’t try telling that to the tens of thousands of students across the state and nation who can now eat both breakfast and the midday meal for free – regardless of income.
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