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Fixing No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind education law is up for renewal this year, and an independent commission recently released some recommendations for improvement. Not to be outdone, the White House has also put out its own "blueprint" for strengthening the law. The legislation could use a serious reworking, but any fixes won't go far enough unless they do more to expand public and private school choice. NCLB's political bargain was that, in return for a big increase in federal education spending, the government would hold schools more accountable for results in the classroom. Six years later, taxpayers have done their ... .
PE, music and art vital, state school official says
Scott Himelstein may work for the state Office of Education, but that doesn't mean he always likes to spend the day in his office. Himelstein, the Acting Secretary of Education, travels frequently as a liaison between communities and the governor. On Friday, Himelstein came to Vacaville. In the morning he spoke with a group of superintendents from Napa and Solano counties. Next, he came to The Reporter, where he spoke about the current state of education, and the plans the governor has for it. About $59 billion of Schwarzenegger's $143 billion proposed budget is designated for K-12 education. Among the areas that money would fund are career and technical education, physical education, after-school programs, and art and music education. On Friday, Himelstein discussed how the governor's plans could impact northern Solano County.
Parent-Child Speech and Child Custody Speech Restrictions:
Apropos my "no jihadist speech to your children" post below, I thought I'd post the Introduction to a law review article I wrote last year on the subject more broadly -- an article that deals with atheist, racist, pro-gay, anti-gay, pro-polygamy, religiously intolerant, profane, R-rated speech as well. It starts out with, of all people, Percy Shelley. .
At halfway point, majority Democrats' agenda mostly intact
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Lawmakers started the session promising to make education and health care top priorities _ and they have _ but they've also had to deal with attention-grabbing issues such as a proposal for a NASCAR racetrack, a new arena for the Seattle SuperSonics and what to do with the Alaskan Way Viaduct.At the halfway mark of the session, many bills are still working their way through the system while others have died. Capitol veterans cautiously warn that nothing is ever really dead while the Legislature is in town, but many measures that fail to make the cut by March 14 will disappear for good.
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Senate bill puts Kanawha libraries at risk
A bill passed by the state Senate threatens the funding streams that have enabled the Kanawha County Public Library system to grow from one building in Charleston to 10 across the county. The legislation could eliminate a funding stream that now provides 34 percent of the librarys funding. Lawmakers are responding to a December state Supreme Court decision that says the state cant shortchange school boards that give the most money to county libraries. The court left it to lawmakers to come up with some sort of fix before July. .
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