In debate about education of immigrant kids, money talks
February 10, 2010
IF BOSTON schools can’t make faster progress in helping students with limited English skills, the US Department of Education will have good cause to withhold some federal aid. Latino and immigrant groups are asking the department to place conditions on money from the federal Race to the Top grant program requiring that Boston [...]
Parents, students and civil rights advocates protest the mass closings of public schools
Huffington Post
Leonie Haimson
Executive Director, Class Size Matters
Posted: February 10, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonie-haimson/parents-students-and-civi_b_456982.html
In communities all over the country, resistance is building to the mass closings of neighborhood schools.
Instead of strengthening our neighborhood schools, that have for generations accepted and served a variety of students, and providing resources and reforms like smaller classes that have been [...]
Closing New York City schools is an education plan that fails our kids
New York Daily News Op Ed
February 10th 2010
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/02/10/2010-02-10_closing_new_york_city_schools_is_an_education_plan_that_fails_our_kids.html?page=1#ixzz0f96VwBuZ
Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein have decided it is a good idea to shut 19 troubled schools in New York City’s low-income neighborhoods. The NAACP is suing to stop the closings.
The reason for the lawsuit is simple: Education is a civil rights imperative of our century. [...]
