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Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2010
The author reports on the largest-ever federal investment in fixing low-achieving schools that is now flowing to states, raising the pressure on district leaders to make tough--and quick--decisions about firing principals, replacing teachers, or shutting down schools entirely. Since March, the U.S. Department of Education has been sending states…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Educational Change, Grants, Educational Finance
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
A growing chorus of people are saying that some school districts are overzealous in categorizing students as English-language learners (ELLs) in the aim of complying with federal and state laws to ensure that children of immigrants get extra help with English. They contend that the information requested on the home-language survey that parents are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Identification, Limited English Speaking
Aarons, Dakarai I. – Education Week, 2009
Pascal D. Forgione Jr., who has been the superintendent of the Austin Independent School District since August 1999, will retire in June. In the rough-and-tumble world of the urban superintendency, such long tenures are a relative rarity. As he prepares to leave the stage, Pat Forgione is being praised locally and nationally for his leadership in…
Descriptors: Business, Educational Finance, School Districts, Leadership
Ash, Katie; Davis, Michelle R. – Education Week, 2009
The closing of hundreds of U.S. schools in recent weeks because of concerns about swine flu underscores the need for administrators to make plans for continuing their students' education during any extended shutdown, emergency experts and federal officials say. Fears about a severe flu pandemic had eased as of late last week, but experts say…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Federal Legislation, State Standards, Emergency Programs
Education Week, 2008
"Quality Counts 2008" reintroduces state grades in six key areas, from the Chance-for-Success Index to the teaching profession. This special issue of "Education Week" includes the following articles: (1) Human Resources a Weak Spot (Lynn Olson); (2) Teacher Salaries, Looking at Comparable Jobs (Christopher B. Swanson); (3) Data…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teaching (Occupation), Educational Quality, Human Resources
Honawar, Vaishali – Education Week, 2007
Historically, it has been tough to get teachers for urban districts, but this is not the case in Baltimore, Maryland, anymore. Since 2002, the New Teacher Project has been finding at least 10 applicants for each teaching job it fills for the once hard-to-staff Baltimore district. Armed with unorthodox recruitment strategies, the group targets…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Rural Schools, Public School Teachers, Holistic Approach
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2006
School officials at a Mount Pleasant High School in Texas, launched an extended-length course venture four years ago in the hope that doubling the amount of class time on core academic subjects would raise student achievement and test scores. Similar strategies are being used in schools across the country, especially in reading and mathematics,…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Reading Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, High Schools
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2005
This article reports on the action taken by Texas officials to maintain the integrity of their testing program. Responding to a potential cheating scandal uncovered by a recent newspaper investigation, Texas officials announced a sweeping review of test security and plans for a new monitoring scheme for the state accountability system, which has…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Measures (Individuals), Testing, Integrity
Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2005
Margaret Spellings, 47, was named in November by President Bush to replace Education Secretary Rod Paige, who tendered his resignation shortly after the 2004 election. Spellings has won strong votes of confidence from both sides of the political aisle, as well as from national education groups. And yet, at least some educators outside the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Presidents, Political Science, Educational Attainment
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2005
Faced with a conflict between state and federal laws, Texas officials have come down on the side of their own law and set up a possible showdown with the U.S. government over millions of dollars in education aid. In determining which schools and districts were meeting annual goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the state last February…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Disabilities, State Legislation
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2005
State and local officials are slowly untangling complicated webs of accountability, testing, and graduation policies, hoping to give thousands of students displaced by Hurricane Katrina a better handle on their academic standing. While officials in Texas, Tennessee, and Alabama offered some guidance to such students, school leaders in…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Weather, Politics of Education, Federal Legislation