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AZ: New Arizona law -- Future 3rd-graders to have to read to pass grade
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Description: The 25 children in Jenny Willman's class at Navarrete Elementary School in Chandler are like most kindergartners: fidgety, rambunctious and quick to blurt out answers.
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Description: The 25 children in Jenny Willman's class at Navarrete Elementary School in Chandler are like most kindergartners: fidgety, rambunctious and quick to blurt out answers.
CO: On the right page for school reform
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Description: The education policy that gubernatorial hopeful John Hickenlooper recently released doesn't introduce any radical new ideas. Still, we're glad to see it.
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Description: The education policy that gubernatorial hopeful John Hickenlooper recently released doesn't introduce any radical new ideas. Still, we're glad to see it.
CT: Conn. seeks education grant to help teen parents
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Description: Connecticut education officials are applying for $6 million in federal grants to help schools provide more services to pregnant and parenting teenagers.
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Description: Connecticut education officials are applying for $6 million in federal grants to help schools provide more services to pregnant and parenting teenagers.
CT: Will Rell's Charter Oak Health Plan initiative survive when she leaves?
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Description: The Charter Oak Health Plan was one of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's most prized initiatives, providing health coverage for uninsured adults. But it's not clear how long the program will last after Rell leaves office.
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Description: The Charter Oak Health Plan was one of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's most prized initiatives, providing health coverage for uninsured adults. But it's not clear how long the program will last after Rell leaves office.
CT: New federal rule complicates desegregation efforts
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Description: Under a federal rule that takes effect this year, students can identify themselves in multiple racial and ethnic categories.
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Description: Under a federal rule that takes effect this year, students can identify themselves in multiple racial and ethnic categories.
GA: Education tops Barnes' agenda this time around
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Description: Teachers might have helped block Roy Barnes' 2002 bid for a second term as governor, but education has emerged as his signature issue as he tries to win his old job back this fall.
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Description: Teachers might have helped block Roy Barnes' 2002 bid for a second term as governor, but education has emerged as his signature issue as he tries to win his old job back this fall.
HI: Teacher dropouts
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Description: More than half of Hawaii's public school teachers leave within five years of being hired, a sobering statistic the state is scrambling to address at a time when experienced teachers are needed to help turn around struggling schools, meet federal requirements for "highly qualified" teachers and reach ambitious school reform goals.
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Description: More than half of Hawaii's public school teachers leave within five years of being hired, a sobering statistic the state is scrambling to address at a time when experienced teachers are needed to help turn around struggling schools, meet federal requirements for "highly qualified" teachers and reach ambitious school reform goals.
HI: Candidates debate state of isle education
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Description: Hawaii's lieutenant governor candidates last night praised the efforts of island charter schools — especially the 16 that avoided Furlough Fridays while absorbing budget cuts — and called for more emphasis on early childhood education, but fell short on coming up with new ways to find money for promising programs.
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Description: Hawaii's lieutenant governor candidates last night praised the efforts of island charter schools — especially the 16 that avoided Furlough Fridays while absorbing budget cuts — and called for more emphasis on early childhood education, but fell short on coming up with new ways to find money for promising programs.
IA: Education director finalist turns down job
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Description: Former Des Moines school administrator Linda Lane turned down an offer for the Iowa Department of Education director's job, Gov. Chet Culver said late today.
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Description: Former Des Moines school administrator Linda Lane turned down an offer for the Iowa Department of Education director's job, Gov. Chet Culver said late today.
IA: Regents push for better four-year graduation rate
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Description: AMES, Iowa -- Freshmen cracking open books for the first time at Iowa's public universities this fall be warned: For the majority, earning a degree will take more than four years
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Description: AMES, Iowa -- Freshmen cracking open books for the first time at Iowa's public universities this fall be warned: For the majority, earning a degree will take more than four years
IA: Iowa college grads carrying U.S.'s 2nd-highest debt load
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Description: AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University student Jonny Choate is excited to graduate next year, but he isn't looking forward to the tens of thousands of dollars in student loans he'll have to repay.
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Description: AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University student Jonny Choate is excited to graduate next year, but he isn't looking forward to the tens of thousands of dollars in student loans he'll have to repay.
IL: SIUC looking to keep things stable
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Description: SIUC is still owed $18 million from the state, but SIU President Glenn Poshard is confident they will receive that money and make payroll through 2010.
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Description: SIUC is still owed $18 million from the state, but SIU President Glenn Poshard is confident they will receive that money and make payroll through 2010.
IL: Lottery bidder promises to provide scholarships
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Description: One of the companies bidding to manage the Illinois lottery is promising to create an educational scholarship program worth an estimated $35 million if it wins the potentially lucrative competition.
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Description: One of the companies bidding to manage the Illinois lottery is promising to create an educational scholarship program worth an estimated $35 million if it wins the potentially lucrative competition.
IL: North Shore activists ask affluent neighbors for help with school funding gaps
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Description: For one day, the disparities in Illinois public education were on graphic display when a feisty state senator bused hundreds of low-income South Side students to the wealthy North Shore to "enroll" them in some of the highest-performing schools in Illinois.
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Description: For one day, the disparities in Illinois public education were on graphic display when a feisty state senator bused hundreds of low-income South Side students to the wealthy North Shore to "enroll" them in some of the highest-performing schools in Illinois.
KS: Officials looking at common standards
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Description: Education officials in almost all states, including those in Kansas, are working on what are called Common Core State Standards, which will make the teaching of English and math in public school classrooms nationwide more uniform.
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Description: Education officials in almost all states, including those in Kansas, are working on what are called Common Core State Standards, which will make the teaching of English and math in public school classrooms nationwide more uniform.
KS: Let high-schoolers sleep in, state health officer says
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Description: The state's top health officer says high schoolers need to get more sleep — and if that means starting classes later statewide, so be it.
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Description: The state's top health officer says high schoolers need to get more sleep — and if that means starting classes later statewide, so be it.
MD: Zombies lumber into curriculum at University of Baltimore
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Description: Arnold Blumberg plops the zombie head on a table at the front of the small theater. "I brought a friend," says the University of Baltimore professor, clad in an unbuttoned black shirt adorned with red skulls. Blumberg is meeting his class for the first time and it seems appropriate that he greet them beside "old Worm Eye," undead star of the 1979 Italian cult film "Zombi 2."
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Description: Arnold Blumberg plops the zombie head on a table at the front of the small theater. "I brought a friend," says the University of Baltimore professor, clad in an unbuttoned black shirt adorned with red skulls. Blumberg is meeting his class for the first time and it seems appropriate that he greet them beside "old Worm Eye," undead star of the 1979 Italian cult film "Zombi 2."
MD: Down economy means business at area colleges
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Description: The Johns Hopkins University is pitching a new Global MBA program to students around the world. Loyola University Maryland's business school is luring professionals still fresh in their careers to a new, intensive one-year MBA program. Even the Maryland Institute College of Art is getting down to business, offering students with a creative flair a chance to learn business principles in a new master's program developed for next spring.
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Description: The Johns Hopkins University is pitching a new Global MBA program to students around the world. Loyola University Maryland's business school is luring professionals still fresh in their careers to a new, intensive one-year MBA program. Even the Maryland Institute College of Art is getting down to business, offering students with a creative flair a chance to learn business principles in a new master's program developed for next spring.
MI: Health care program aims to cover uninsured children
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Description: As millions of children return to school, health leaders today launched an unprecedented national campaign to enroll 5 million uninsured children nationwide -- including 172,000 in Michigan -- in free or low-cost health insurance programs.
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Description: As millions of children return to school, health leaders today launched an unprecedented national campaign to enroll 5 million uninsured children nationwide -- including 172,000 in Michigan -- in free or low-cost health insurance programs.
MS: Most Miss. school districts favor dress codes
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Description: The Mississippi School Boards Association says a recent survey found that 61 percent of the state's public school districts require uniforms or something similar.
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Description: The Mississippi School Boards Association says a recent survey found that 61 percent of the state's public school districts require uniforms or something similar.
NJ: Christie expected to tell aides to boycott Assembly hearing into the $400 million 'Race to the Top' debacle
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Description: What if legislative Democrats held a hearing, in part, to keep political heat on the Republican Christie administration for blowing the opportunity to gain New Jersey $400 million in federal Race to the Top education funding and none of the invited aides to the governor showed up?
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Description: What if legislative Democrats held a hearing, in part, to keep political heat on the Republican Christie administration for blowing the opportunity to gain New Jersey $400 million in federal Race to the Top education funding and none of the invited aides to the governor showed up?
NJ: His bombast backfired; now Gov. Chris Christie is in the bunker
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Description: Sort through Bret Schundler's detailed account of his firing and you come to only one reasonable conclusion: He did not lie to Gov. Chris Christie, as the governor charged. He was fired as education commissioner under false pretenses.
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Description: Sort through Bret Schundler's detailed account of his firing and you come to only one reasonable conclusion: He did not lie to Gov. Chris Christie, as the governor charged. He was fired as education commissioner under false pretenses.
NJ: Tuition hikes outpace inflation for all N.J. 4-year colleges
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Description: Students at New Jersey's four-year colleges and universities will pay between 3.5 percent and 7.3 percent more in tuition and fees this year as their institutions try to make up for cuts in state aid and rising operating costs, according to a Sunday Star-Ledger survey of two dozen schools.
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Description: Students at New Jersey's four-year colleges and universities will pay between 3.5 percent and 7.3 percent more in tuition and fees this year as their institutions try to make up for cuts in state aid and rising operating costs, according to a Sunday Star-Ledger survey of two dozen schools.
NV: Assembly GOP leader a straight shooter — at times to his own detriment
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Description: EUREKA, Nev. — Pete Goicoechea might be among the most powerful men in Nevada in a few months, holding in his hands the fate of state government, classrooms, welfare and taxes.
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Description: EUREKA, Nev. — Pete Goicoechea might be among the most powerful men in Nevada in a few months, holding in his hands the fate of state government, classrooms, welfare and taxes.
NY: Tougher standards pose test to schools
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Description: CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. -- School districts across New York are scrambling to prepare students for stricter test scoring standards recently imposed by the state.
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Description: CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. -- School districts across New York are scrambling to prepare students for stricter test scoring standards recently imposed by the state.
OH: College ranks continue to swell as freshmen arrive in large numbers
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Description: After two years of blockbuster enrollment increases spurred by the weak economy, most central Ohio colleges are holding steady or still growing -- but at a much more modest pace.
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Description: After two years of blockbuster enrollment increases spurred by the weak economy, most central Ohio colleges are holding steady or still growing -- but at a much more modest pace.
OH: Charter students will lose bus passes
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Description: The district believed at the time that state law required it but has since changed its view.
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Description: The district believed at the time that state law required it but has since changed its view.
OH: OHSAA offers youth-sports oversight
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Description: The governing body for Ohio high-school athletics is so concerned about the physical, emotional and financial toll in youth sports that it offered last week to provide uniform regulation to protect hundreds of thousands of children involved in nonschool programs.
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Description: The governing body for Ohio high-school athletics is so concerned about the physical, emotional and financial toll in youth sports that it offered last week to provide uniform regulation to protect hundreds of thousands of children involved in nonschool programs.
OK: Kindergarten classrooms show clear shift in demographics
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Description: The move in recent years to full-day kindergarten in Oklahoma has been a big change. Schools had to hire teachers, find extra classroom space and fit kindergartners into physical education, music and lunch schedules.
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Description: The move in recent years to full-day kindergarten in Oklahoma has been a big change. Schools had to hire teachers, find extra classroom space and fit kindergartners into physical education, music and lunch schedules.
OR: Gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley outlines his ideas to improve education
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Description: Republican Chris Dudley would combine tax cuts with targeted incentives for students, teachers and schools as ways to improve Oregon's economy if he is elected governor.
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Description: Republican Chris Dudley would combine tax cuts with targeted incentives for students, teachers and schools as ways to improve Oregon's economy if he is elected governor.
OR: Oregon Department of Education considers changes to hiring practices after discovering pending complaint against new employee
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Description: After unknowingly hiring an administrator that has a pending complaint with the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, the Oregon Department of Education is considering changes to its hiring procedures.
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Description: After unknowingly hiring an administrator that has a pending complaint with the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, the Oregon Department of Education is considering changes to its hiring procedures.
OR: Marked absent -- Many Oregon students will do without music and art classes
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Description: Many kids look forward to going to choir class at the end of the day or performing in uniform with the school band for the first time.
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Description: Many kids look forward to going to choir class at the end of the day or performing in uniform with the school band for the first time.
PA: State university workers jump at retirement bonus
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Description: A retirement incentive program intended to lessen budget strain across Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities drew more takers than expected, a total of 257 employees from janitors to a university president who already made public his decision to retire.
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Description: A retirement incentive program intended to lessen budget strain across Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities drew more takers than expected, a total of 257 employees from janitors to a university president who already made public his decision to retire.
PA: School districts' Rainy Day Funds- Too much padding or a necessary cushion?
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Description: Gov. Ed Rendell has made increasing investments in public schools his top priority. But much of that money has wound up in public schools' Rainy Day Funds.
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Description: Gov. Ed Rendell has made increasing investments in public schools his top priority. But much of that money has wound up in public schools' Rainy Day Funds.
SC: SC campus offers free college for a few days
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Description: CONWAY, S.C. — A South Carolina university is offering folks a chance to experience college for free - at least for a couple of days.
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Description: CONWAY, S.C. — A South Carolina university is offering folks a chance to experience college for free - at least for a couple of days.
SD: Pharmacy center ready for unveiling
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Description: The cozy confines of the old pharmacy and chemistry quarters at South Dakota State University became a public embarrassment in recent years.
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Description: The cozy confines of the old pharmacy and chemistry quarters at South Dakota State University became a public embarrassment in recent years.
TX: Texas' financial aid for college students could dwindle even more
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Description: University of Texas junior Mariano Pintor said when he was growing up in Dallas, most of his friends thought "only rich kids go to college."
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Description: University of Texas junior Mariano Pintor said when he was growing up in Dallas, most of his friends thought "only rich kids go to college."
TX: Legislators push aid to middle schoolers
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Description: Texas Sen. Florence Shapiro was stunned a few years ago when state auditors answered her request with a white surrender flag: They could not tell her which programs designed to help struggling, low-income students worked and which didn't.
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Description: Texas Sen. Florence Shapiro was stunned a few years ago when state auditors answered her request with a white surrender flag: They could not tell her which programs designed to help struggling, low-income students worked and which didn't.
VT: Burlington colleges pursue student housing projects
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Description: Pressed for dorm space to accommodate an unusually big entering class, Champlain College responded in a big way -- by leasing an entire apartment building in South Burlington.
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Description: Pressed for dorm space to accommodate an unusually big entering class, Champlain College responded in a big way -- by leasing an entire apartment building in South Burlington.
WA: Officials work toward revamped tests
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Description: Don't get too attached to the new state tests that replaced the WASL last year. A revamped version may be ready for the 2014-15 school year.
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Description: Don't get too attached to the new state tests that replaced the WASL last year. A revamped version may be ready for the 2014-15 school year.
WV: House called roadblock to education reform
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Description: State Senate Education Committee Chairman Robert Plymale said the Senate has no difficulty passing education reform bills but "there's a real problem trying to pass any reform in the House of Delegates."
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Description: State Senate Education Committee Chairman Robert Plymale said the Senate has no difficulty passing education reform bills but "there's a real problem trying to pass any reform in the House of Delegates."
Gov candidates expect race to tighten up
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Description: DETROIT -- As Labor Day marked the kickoff of Michigan's race for governor, both candidates and most analysts agreed on one thing: Republican Rick Snyder's huge lead over Democrat Virg Bernero will tighten by Election Day.
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Description: DETROIT -- As Labor Day marked the kickoff of Michigan's race for governor, both candidates and most analysts agreed on one thing: Republican Rick Snyder's huge lead over Democrat Virg Bernero will tighten by Election Day.
New state tests coming to schools
Published: 09/03/2010
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Description: TODAY'S TAKE: The Obama administration is continuing its recent effort to make schools across states adhere to the same standards. On Thursday, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan rolled out a plan to prepare common standardized tests for states to adopt. The new tests, which would replace existing state assessments, have already run into some political opposition.
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Description: TODAY'S TAKE: The Obama administration is continuing its recent effort to make schools across states adhere to the same standards. On Thursday, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan rolled out a plan to prepare common standardized tests for states to adopt. The new tests, which would replace existing state assessments, have already run into some political opposition.
Education's less-than-certain windfall
Published: 09/03/2010
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Description: There's $10 billion for schools in the state aid bill Congress passed last month. But some school systems have reason to wonder whether they are going to see the money.
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Description: There's $10 billion for schools in the state aid bill Congress passed last month. But some school systems have reason to wonder whether they are going to see the money.
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