"New Kid" Keller in the House
READY TO GO: A man described as having "integrity and honor" replaces the arrested Vic Kohring.
Keller hails from northern Wisconsin. He moved to Alaska in 1969 and worked around the state in building maintenance, construction, industrial training and in the oil field. Since 1999 he worked as Eagle River Sen. Fred Dyson's chief of staff. Keller is a pilot, a hunter, a fisherman and a family man. He and his wife, Gayle, have three grown children and five grandchildren.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/9242213p-9157662c.html
More Students Finish School, Given the Time
Faced with 70,000 students or more who are years behind in obtaining the credits needed to graduate from high school, New York City is at the forefront of a movement to recognize that for a significant number, high school might stretch into five, six, even seven years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/education/21highschool.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Minority scores lag on teaching test: Panel to study failure rate, bias complaints
More than half the black and Hispanic applicants for teaching jobs in Massachusetts fail a state licensing exam, a trend that has created a major obstacle to greater diversity among public school faculty and stirred controversy over the fairness of the test.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/19/minority_scores_lag_on_teaching_test/
Office to centralize charter-school financing
Charter schools will soon have an easier way to bond for a school building once the Charter School Financing Authority, a newly established office at the state, gets the application processed finalized next month.
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695202201,00.html
The School Finance Redesign Project (SFRP)
The School Finance Redesign Project (SFRP) encompasses research, policy analysis, and public engagement activities that examine how K-12 finance can be redesigned to better support student performance. This working paper seeks to investigate to two questions: How much money will it take for all students to meet standards and how should the money be spent?
http://www.schoolfinanceredesign.org/pub/pdf/sfrp_interimsynthesis.pdf
Report, suit question teacher qualifications
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in San Francisco by several civil rights groups, challenges the U.S. Education Department's regulations for "highly qualified teachers," saying the department has watered down the standard by allowing thousands of teachers-in-training in California and elsewhere to be declared highly qualified before they even finish training.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-08-21-teachers-lawsuit_N.htm
Schools enjoy jobs 'golden age': Secondary schools in England are experiencing a "golden" period for staff recruitment, research suggests
The quality and quantity of candidates applying for vacant posts means schools can select from a talented field.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6951679.stm
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