| Lafayette Parish ranks No. 16 with 90.9; new indicators of success ...
Lafayette Parish schools are the 16th in District Performance Scores, according to a recent release from the Louisiana Department of Education that showed the parish was up in ranking and down in scores. Lafayette was 22nd in the state last year with a score of 95.2. The DPS dropped to 90.9 this year, but the ranking went up. Six parishes that scored higher than Lafayette last year were not ranked because of the impact of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. .
Federal Regulations Take Their Toll on Hawaii Teachers
"Hawai'i's public school teachers are putting in an average of 15.5 hours of work per day, much of it on tasks demanded by federal mandates, according to a first-of-its-kind study," according to the Honolulu Advertiser. Follow this link to the source article: "Teachers' workday averages 15.5 hours" .
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Education Department officials vow to toughen checks on school-bus ...
Changes to the way schools hire and monitor school bus drivers are coming, the state says, and they're coming quickly. "The very first change that will have to happen is that districts have to have access to an extended driving record," said Pete Japikse, who oversees pupil transportation for the Ohio Department of Education. Up until now, when schools wanted to hire a bus driver, they only received an applicant's driving record for the past three years. But they should be able to see farther back in the driver's history, Japikse said, in case they want to weed out applicants with a spotty record. Bureau of Motor Vehicles officials have said that a driver's full record is available but those requesting a background check typically have been given only a three-year abstract.
Taking the future in hand
It's a typical noisy morning at Bright Start Early Education Center, where infants on up to school-age children are learning through play and interaction with their peers.It is within these walls that Norman's future minds are being cultivated, believes Diana Hartley, community development director for Cleveland County Cooperative Extension Service. By the time children reach kindergarten, many of the essential skills children need to succeed in school have already been either acquired or missed, she said."Early education of children is not a political issue. It's a community issue," Hartley said.Hartley and other Norman educators led a tour Friday of child development facilities to raise awareness of the value of early childhood education for United Way's Success By 6 program, which promotes reading and other enrichment activities for young children.While a week of infant care at a three-star childcare facility like Bright Start costs $155, a child with behavioral problems who ends up in the state's alternative education program as a teenager costs Oklahoma $708 per day for acute care and $495 per day for residential care in a group home, according to United Way.The Success By 6 tour was aimed at showing community leaders the value of allocating money for children's programs early in life instead of waiting for problems to develop later down the road, Hartley said."If we as a community do not take stock of the cost and consequences (of development programs for young children) then we will pay later," Hartley said.Early building blocksIn Bright Start's pre-school and school-age rooms, children are happily playing with a green gooey substance called "Oobleck" made of cornstarch, water and green food coloring.
WASD named one of ‘Best 100’ in music education sixth year
This marks the sixth consecutive year that the district and its residents have been identified as one of the Best 100 Communities for Music Education in America.
Were just ecstatic, said Rick Coulter, music education department chairman. What we have here isnt commonplace in much of the country, especially with the high demands placed on (educators) to raise test scores.
The Best 100 survey is conducted by a partnership of music and educational organizations and thousands of teachers, school and district administrators, school board members, parents and community leaders participate in the Web-based survey. Participants answered detailed questions about funding, enrollment, student-teacher ratios, music class participation, instruction time, facilities, support for the music program, private music lesson participation and other factors in their communities music education program.
Indiana Connections Academy to Hold Information Sessions for Area ...
INDIANAPOLIS, March 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Indiana Connections Academy (INCA), one of the state's leading providers of virtual education for grades K-11, will be holding a series of free information sessions throughout Indiana for parents who want to learn more about the new, tuition-free, full- time, virtual public charter school. INCA will be accepting students from anywhere in the state beginning in spring 2007 for the 2007-2008 school year. The information sessions will be held over the next six weeks in locations around the state. At these events, parents will have an opportunity to meet with representatives from Connections Academy, view the curriculum and demonstrations of the online Learning Management System, and thoroughly explore the program. A complete schedule with dates and locations is listed below, and is also available at http://www.connectionsacademy.com/ or by calling (800) 382-6010.
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