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Washington Post
Push for Early Literacy and Requirements of Standardized Tests Change Approach to 6-Year-Olds
By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer
11.30.04
One in a series of occasional articles about the grades that provide the building blocks of a child's education.
One of the Campbell Elementary School first-graders in Room 154, a determined child named Austin, pulled a jumbled collection of small square cards from a pink plastic envelope and dumped...
Kansas City Star
Are civil rights important to the Bush administration?
11.30.04
If you listen to administration spokesmen, few things are more vital. But actions tell a different story. The administration has quietly undermined much of its bold talk.
The latest evidence comes in a study released last week on federal civil rights cases prosecuted since Bush took office. The study found that although the number of civil rights complaints received by the Department of Justice h...
Last week, a group of state lawmakers on the House Education Committee considered a bill that would have declared Virginia free of several requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, President Bush's controversial education law.
Concerned that passage of the bill might cost the state millions in federal education money, 11 of 17 lawmakers opted to put any potential reform on ice for at least another year.
The Daily Press
Phil Hamilton says the General Assembly has no authority to request changes to the federal No Child Left Behind act.
BY ANGELA FOREST
Published November 13, 2004
NEWPORT NEWS -- Virginia educators who see problems with the federal No Child Left Behind law have more power than the General Assembly to fix them, Del. Phil Hamilton said.
Hamilton, R-Newport News, e-mailed a letter to Gov. Mark R. Warner a day after voting against a bill t...
You probably assume that because virtually all of a school district's budget comes from local property taxes, your locally elected officials are the primary source of education policy.
This assumption would be wrong.
Recently, the federal No Child Left Behind Act has forced policy changes on local school districts, in many cases with absurd results.
The Daily Herald recently published a preliminary list o...
After narrowing in better economic times, the financial gap between poor and wealthy school districts has widened, a new report has found.
State and local money account for more than 90 percent of all education spending, but high poverty districts typically received $868 less per student from those sources than their counterparts with relatively few poor children did in 2002, the latest year for which data is available, the report found...
