Education
BESE approves $2M for 'Course Choice' program
The state education board is on track to spend $2 million from an oil and gas trust fund for a pilot program to expand online high school course offerings to public school students, after the previous financing source was declared unconstitutional. A panel of the Board of Elementary and Secondary ...
Report faults UW-System education schools
A review of the nation's teacher-training programs released Tuesday suggests that many University of Wisconsin System education schools are of middling quality. The nonprofit National Council on Teacher Quality used a four-star rating system to evaluate teacher preparation programs at more than 1,100 colleges and universities. UW-Stout's undergraduate program for ...
Republicans negotiate changes to Wisconsin budget
Republicans privately negotiated a series of last-minute changes to the Wisconsin budget Tuesday designed to smooth its passage, including removing a cap on a popular tax credit program for disabled veterans and delaying the loosening of requirements for high-capacity wells. The changes, discussed among Republican legislative leaders in both the ...
Author, teacher of endangered Lakota language dies
The endangered Lakota language has lost one of its greatest supporters. Albert White Hat, who was instrumental in teaching and preserving the American Indian language and translated the Hollywood movie "Dances with Wolves" into Lakota for its actors, died last week surrounded by loved ones at a South Dakota hospital. ...
Car won't start but Johnson still wows school kids
Ready to thrill a few hundred school kids, Jimmie Johnson hopped into a replica of his No. 48 car to fire up the engine. The battery was dead. He and some members of his group tried to bump start the car. That just bashed in the show car's bumper, led ...
Report says most Miss. education schools mediocre
Mississippi's teacher training programs are mediocre at best, according to a group pushing for changes in how the nation trains teachers. The report from the National Council on Teacher Quality is backed by Mississippi groups pushing for educational improvements. However, leaders of some colleges of education said the council's report ...
N. Calif. teacher charged with classroom sex abuse
A decade after a conviction for possession of child pornography, a former elementary school teacher from Northern California has been charged with the classroom sexual abuse of a second-grade boy 15 years ago. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Tuesday (bit.ly/13RdPSY) that Alameda County prosecutors have charged 63-year-old Michael Schoop with ...
Audit: Lawmakers need to define school readiness
State lawmakers must define "school readiness" and establish pre-school testing to better determine which children most need help and boost their chances for success, according to an audit of South Carolina First Steps that was released Tuesday. The Legislative Audit Council found that 14 years after the agency was created ...
Alabama's new tax credits limited to transfers
Alabama's Department of Revenue determined the state's new private school tax credits don't apply to students who are already in private schools, even if they live in zones where failing public schools operate. The department has been developing regulations to implement the new Alabama Accountability Act since it was signed ...
More AP classes could cost districts millions
County school superintendents told the state Board of Education on Tuesday that a recent legislative bill allowing high school students to take as many advanced placement courses as they can handle will cost districts millions of dollars that their budgets can't support. Pinellas School superintendent Michael Grego said the bill ...
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