Corzine to Propose New Jersey Budget That Cuts Jobs (Update1)
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Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) — New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine will
propose a budget today that would reduce spending from the
current $33.5 billion by eliminating jobs, consolidating state
departments and cutting aid to hospitals and municipalities.
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Diploma deflation
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In 1999, Pennsylvania decided that all high school students must meet certain academic standards in order to graduate. Nearly a decade later, however, tens of thousands of our students are receiving diplomas though they have not shown proficiency in core subjects.
Why are so many of our students graduating despite questionable academic proficiency?
Many Pennsylvanians might be [...]
Paul Kennedy Neocons worst nightmare
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Two words changed Paul Kennedy’s life. That they were just two words in a book of some 150,000, and that the whole phrase was three words long, was neither here nor there. No one was that interested in the qualifying adjective “relative” when the other two words were “US” and “decline“.The year was 1988, the [...]
A classic case of undersupply
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Back in 1965, Oxford and Cambridge decreed that applicants no longer required O-level Latin to gain admission to their hallowed halls and cloisters. The following year saw the founding of the Cambridge School Classics Project (CSCP) with the aim of keeping alive not only the flickering flame of classical culture, but also a language that [...]
Nowin situation
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There was a time when an advert for a college principal’s post would draw a flood of applicants. At the start of the decade, it was not unknown for 60 candidates to apply for a single job. But no longer.”These days it’s not unusual for colleges to struggle to get shortlists of four or five [...]
Balls plans to send elite teaching teams into failing schools
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Ministers are working on plans to send teams of expert leaders into hundreds of struggling state secondaries as part of a concerted move to eliminate low-performers.Local authorities have been set a summer deadline to develop individual “action plans” setting out how they are going to turn around 638 low-performing state schools, the children’s secretary, Ed [...]
U.S. says Rezko paid his way in
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To illustrate Rezko’s power and access, prosecutors said they want to present evidence that Rezko met regularly with Blagojevich patronage chief Joe Cini to discuss hiring in the new Democratic administration. Prosecutors said Jennifer Thomas, a former Cini assistant, is prepared to testify [...]
Parents teachers expected to fight Chicago schoolclosing plan
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“Overall we think it’s an attack on the public schools by the school system,” she said. “They are making a huge mistake. It disrupts the students and causes job loss for very little gain if any.” But Tanya Dickens-Whitehead, who was picking up her [...]
Chicago Teachers Union wants school board to delay vote on school closings
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“Turn off the automatic pilot and postpone the actions…to reassess whether all the schools on the list should truly be on the list,” Stewart said. “It would allow us to reach a consensus as a city on a plan that we would all feel good about.” [...]
The heartbeat the pulse and the brains
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The UK’s new teaching assistant of the year would never dream of going on strike. Anne Hegarty has an almost fanatical devotion to her school and the pupils under her at St Brigid’s primary in the heart of the County Derry countryside. She doesn’t even belong to a union. But the modest, shy 38-year-old is [...]
