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Saturday, September 2, 2006

Akron Beacon-Journal
Charter-school aid flows in
Two area companies handle one-fourth of state's $486 million in funding
The Akron area is a major hub of Ohio's charter-school movement: A quarter of last year's $486 million in state charter-school funding flowed through two education management companies headquartered here.

Arizona Republic
Pappas schools rescued
The woes of the financially and politically troubled school district for homeless children continued this week with an eleventh-hour move by the state treasurer to withhold money from the district.

District gives kids midweek break
PHOENIX - Kids in the Washington Elementary School District will get out of classes early on Wednesdays, but their teachers won't get the afternoons off.

Baltimore Sun
Pupils recall principal who showed them how to soar
Abington educator died Tuesday at his school

Charter school funding decided
Court says they must gets as much cash as other public schools

This city school's lesson plan: peace
Spiritual leader's visit to a city school stresses call for violence-free living

Boston Globe
Banks offer students financial courses
PITTSBURGH -- As students rush to unpack their bags during orientation week at Carnegie Mellon University, banks are scrambling for their business.

Contra Costa Times
Falling enrollment puzzles Acalanes district officials
LAFAYETTE: Surprise at high performing schools means less state money
Acalanes Union High School District, one of the highest performing districts in the state, is experiencing a record drop in enrollment, and district officials are not sure why.

Dallas Morning News
TEA may ax test analyzer
Agency doubts level of TAKS cheating; evaluator defends data
The Texas Education Agency is leaning toward severing ties with the company it hired to look for cheating on the TAKS test, in part because the results have generated negative publicity for the state.

Detroit Free Press
Sides told to keep talking
Wayne County Circuit Judge Susan Borman ordered Detroit's teachers union and the public school system on Friday to negotiate through the weekend and be back in court at 11 a.m. Tuesday -- roughly three hours after classes are to begin for 129,000 students.

Detroit News
Schools map strike strategy
Detroit's backup plan relies on noncertified teachers

Houston Chronicle
School official launches sagging pants crusade
A Dallas school board member has had it with baggy pants that overexpose. Ron Price has asked the Dallas City Council to look at strengthening the law to give citations to those who expose their underwear.

Lawmakers study college textbooks' high prices
One student at the University of Houston compared it to a car payment, another to health insurance premiums.

Indianapolis Star-Tribune
Schools roll out the perks to improve attendance
District offers prizes to students who don't miss class time; plan seems to be working OXFORD, Ind. -- Getting to school every day last year wasn't too hard for Chandler Henry, now a second-grader at Otterbein Elementary School. But waking up in the morning was.

Los Angeles Daily News
Costly defeat for LAUSD
SACRAMENTO - Los Angeles Unified has spent more than $350,000 in taxpayer money in its unsuccessful bid to defeat Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's school-takeover legislation, documents obtained by the Daily News show.

Miami Herald
Tutors sought for remedial aid
Miami Herald Staff
A private company that provides free remedial services to students nationwide has launched a campaign to recruit as many as 150 tutors in Miami-Dade County.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dream Machine helps hook kids on science
The youngsters making dragonflies and schooner replicas on the Rockwell Automation Dream Machine Friday are really the Discovery World exhibit's intended products

Educator leaving over partner benefits
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is facing a hit to its pocketbook and brainpower after a researcher announced that he is leaving because of the state's refusal to provide domestic partner benefits.

New York Daily News
1,000 teachers demoted to subs
More than 1,000 city teachers - including some public school veterans - will be relegated to the ranks of substitute instructors when classes begin Tuesday, officials said yesterday.

New York Post
COLOR CITY'S SCHOOLS ROSY
By DAVID ANDREATTA
Preparing to begin his fifth school year as chancellor next week, Joel Klein said yesterday that he's "never been more optimistic" about the state of the school system.

New York Times
At 2-Year Colleges, Students Eager but Unready
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
Community colleges are being deluged with hundreds of thousands of students unprepared for college-level work.

Klein Halts Plan to Make Schools Take Unassigned Teachers
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein abruptly scrapped plans to impose a hiring freeze that would have forced principals to fill any last vacancies with unassigned teachers already in the system.

If You Can Click a Mouse You Can Help on Homework
By ALINA TUGEND
Online homework help sites may be confusing at first but are quickly becoming a welcome resource.

Pasadena Star News
Math program gets going before college moves in
ROSEMEAD - An agreement has yet to be finalized for East Los Angeles College to take over the Dan T. Williams Elementary School campus, but that hasn't stopped college officials from offering an innovative math program at the Garvey School District site during the summer.

Philadelphia Daily News
NEWSPAPER PROMOTES UNDERAGE BINGE DRINKING...
ATTENTION college freshmen: Now that most of you are unpacked and ready for class, it's time to cover something that was overlooked during orientation. Namely, proper beer consumption.

Archdiocese, teachers still negotiating
By DAVID GAMBACORTA
Contract talks continued yesterday between the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the Catholic teachers' union, but no agreement was reached.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Chatham College wants name change to university
Chatham College wants to become a university. The women's institution founded in 1869 is the region's latest campus to seek regulatory approval to become a university. Campus officials confirmed the move late yesterday and said an application has been filed with the state Department of Education.

College not negligent in student's suicide
After almost two weeks of grim and heartbreaking testimony in the case of an Allegheny College student who committed suicide in 2002, a Crawford County jury came back with its verdict after 31/2 hours of deliberation, ruling that the college

Pa reimburses school district for Sen Santorum's cyber-school tuition bill
The state Department of Education has agreed to pay the Penn Hills School District $55,000 to settle a dispute over whether the school district should have paid for cyber schooling for the children of U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum.

Rocky Mountain News
Hays seeks transformation
Parents gush about JoAnn Trujillo Hays. They flock to her school, add their names to waiting lists and cross their fingers that they will get their kids into one of the nation's first public dual-language Montessori schools, Academia Ana Marie Sandoval in northwest Denver.

Saint Paul Pioneer Press
Charter school director charged with theft, fraud
Leader of now-shuttered Chiron accused of using money for gifts
The director of a Minneapolis charter school that closed last year was charged Friday with defrauding the state of nearly $300,000 and using school money to buy personal items such as Christmas presents for her daughter.

San Diego Union Tribune 
School lunches: leaner cuisine
Chefs are the type of professional commonly associated with upscale restaurants and resorts. Their title conjures the image of haute cuisine served in white tablecloth settings. School cafeterias would seem like the last place one would find them.

Washington Post
More AP Scores Missing
The company that administers Advanced Placement exams reported Friday that hundreds of additional test results have been lost and blamed computer glitches for part of the problem.

Court Sides With State Funding Plan
Baltimore charter schools have a right to more money than the city school board provides them, a Md. appellate court has ruled, setting the stage for a potential victory for charter schools statewide.

MIDDLE SCHOOLS:  Reeling From Test Results, N.Va. Educators Regroup

Washington Times
Parents shell out big bucks for tutors
By Lisa Kassenaar
In New York, where tuition at some private schools will top $30,000 this fall, parents are spending thousands of dollars more on one-on-one instruction.

Naval Academy teacher cautioned over language  (Rowan Scarborough)
The Navy has handed a letter of counseling to a Naval Academy instructor who once faced court-martial for using salty language in front of a female midshipman.

International Articles

The Australian
Quality childcare luck of the draw
MOST childcare workers are trained in a system that lacks rigour and accountability, with no monitoring of the quality of the courses offered.

Freedom of choice can only make it better
IMAGINE shopping at a supermarket, buying a car or choosing a holiday and being told that the only option you have is government-funded, designed and controlled, that you must choose from what the state makes available. Forget freedom of choice, the power of the market in successfully meeting personal needs and tastes, and the failure - as evidenced by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union - of the state monopoly represented by communism.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
All change for the new school year
BBC education correspondent Mike Baker on the changes happening in the new school year.

School uniform 'a money struggle'
Many families struggle to afford school uniforms - putting children at risk of being bullied, charities warn.

State schools 'should do IGCSEs'
State schools should be able to ditch GCSEs in favour of more stretching courses, private schools say.

The Globe and Mail
Study debunks belief tuitions skyrocketing
CAROLINE ALPHONSO 
Once tax credits, inflation tallied, fees unchanged in seven years, researcher says
Despite demands for tuition reductions, students are paying no more today than they did seven years ago, according to a new report that comes as thousands arrive on university campuses this long weekend.

The Gulf Times
Ideal trio bag CBSE merit certificates
THREE students of Ideal Indian School have been awarded merit certificates by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi, for being placed among the 0.1% achievers throughout India and in centres abroad.

The Press New Zealand
Many exit school poorly qualified
Only a third of school leavers attained the highest possible qualification last year, new statistics show.

The Telegraph
Blair made children dysfunctional.
Simon Heffer
We have had to become used to an increasingly Orwellian society since our present, caring, sharing Government came to power: the threat of ID cards, video cameras everywhere, and now a register of children (from which, if you happen to be a celebrity, you will be glad to hear your own offspring can be excluded).

The Toronto Star
Schools scramble to take colour count
Just how white is Ontario's ivory tower? For the first time, there may be an answer at Queen's University, reports Louise Brown.

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