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By Joey Cresta October 12, 2011 Portsmouth Herald PORTSMOUTH — The School Board has drafted a letter to N.H. Commissioner of Education Virginia Barry urging her to change the state’s policy on school choice, a controversial provision of the No Child Left Behind law that disrupted city elementary schools this year. The law allows parents of students at Title 1 schools designated as “in need of improvement” to transfer to a non-T…

… said the ruling has broader implications for the state’s role in public school funding and policy making, something others deny. On Tuesday, House Majority Whip Ed Lindsey, R-Atlanta, a co-sponsor, released a copy of a letter he requested from deputy legislative counsel Betsy Howerton, assessing the potential impact of the Supreme Court ruling on other state education funding and programs. Also Tuesday, officials with the Georgia Charter S…

…e importance of digital learning to options parents should have. Include any stories or numbers you have from local experiences. And remember – no matter how great a story you have to tell – keep it under 650 words! • Write a letter-to-the-editor to your local paper with your three key messages – remember to include local statistics from the report. Keep the letter under 150 words. • Having trouble identifying the right media?  Need a second-look…

…e.” The school board seeks support in the fight also from city and county leaders in Durham. Durham, with its relatively high per-pupil funding, already has eight charter schools serving more than 3,000 students, said a letter from school Superintendent Eric Becoats. That represents an 8.7 percent market share of students – the highest in the state. About $10 million of local funding goes to charters, and expansion already planned by …

…rogram: The key to a good reading program is logical progression – building ability like a house, from the foundation up. In reading, the foundation is broadly called phonics; teaching students to identify the sounds of letters and letter combinations, and how these sounds are represented in written language. To be effective for most kids, a reading curriculum must include a major phonics component. True, some children are able to translate…

…shington, D.C. , were hardly the last marks she’d make on U.S. public education. Valley Academy to Open Next Year Standard Speaker, PA, November 6, 2011 Backers of the proposed Valley Academy Charter School continue to search for a home as educators craft a curriculum for classes that are expected to begin next year. Washington-Area Schools Confront The ‘Gifted Gap’ Washington Post, DC, November 6, 2011 The budding scholars in Alexandria’…

…y other factor most of us are led to believe matters). We revisit — but not without a fresh and scientific perspective — how reading and math are taught, and what the differences mean for students, parents and schools. In the search for The Good School, parents must become educated enough to know how to assess whether your child’s reading program has sound/letter recognition or whether that big book with all the pictures and looking very professi…

…y other factor most of us are led to believe matters). We revisit — but not without a fresh and scientific perspective — how reading and math are taught, and what the differences mean for students, parents and schools. In the search for The Good School, parents must become educated enough to know how to assess whether your child’s reading program has sound/letter recognition or whether that big book with all the pictures and looking very professi…

…in January, assumes billions in additional revenue from his tax increase initiative. If the measure fails, Brown says, more drastic cuts would be needed. Public Schools Take All Miami Herald, FL, December 27, 2011 The Dec. 22 letter Charter-school family says that Gibson Charter School offers sailing with Shake-a-Leg. Public schools can also offer this activity, as the sailing is funded by a grant and not the school. The grant is available to pub…

“New Colorado School Grades website grades schools with simple A through F” by Yesenia Robies Denver Post December 12, 2011 A coalition of 18 community organizations has launched a nearly $1 million Internet-based project that translates state rankings of public schools into simple letter grades. “Every parent can relate to grades A through F,” said Colorado Succeeds president Tim Taylor, a member of the Colorado School G…