Published Online: April 15, 2012
Published in Print: April 18, 2012, as Teacher Evaluation Tough Hurdle For Improvement-Grant Schools
Many have yet to overhaul rating and reward systems
By Sarah Garland, The Hechinger Report
Elliott Elementary in…
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By Sarah Garland, The Hechinger Report
Elliott Elementary in Lincoln, Neb., struck off on its own last year when it became the only school in the city to win money through the federal School Improve…
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A majority of the State Board of Education backed a proposal Thursday that would require Nebraska public schools to make time each day for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Five of the board’s eight voting members v…
Published Online: March 12, 2012
ARLINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A program at Arlington Elementary School is helping students get back on track with their homework assignments.
Elementary principal Chad Radke, though, believes the Lunch Bunch program has…
Every year, the U.S. Department of Education spends lots of time and money visiting states to see how well they are complying with the requirements of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Those reviews haven’t take into account wh…
Lawmakers applaud during the State of the State speech by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal in the state capitol in Atlanta.
—Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal & Constitution/AP
Here are summaries of recent annual addresses by governors around the country.
CO…
Two weeks after a teenage gunman killed the vice principal and wounded the principal inside an Omaha, Neb., high school, a state lawmaker introduced legislation that would allow school administrators, teachers, and security personnel to carry conceal…
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Fargo, N.D.
Supporters of a high-speed broadband network that connects researchers in a dozen northern states say the system is in good shape despite university budget cutbacks, thanks in part to a new federal initi…
By Ellen Flax
While Kansas policymakers ponder fundamental changes in their education-funding system, some school officials in neighboring Nebraska are joining forces to make changes in that state’s 1990 school-finance law.
The Nebraska law, which su…
Development of a pilot program for a television series designed to help small children retain their reading skills over the “transitional summers” between the first few grades of school will begin this fall with support from the Kellogg Company and t…
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