http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news Take Charge of Your Education Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:50:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New York Times (On Education) By MICHAEL WINERIP July 24, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/nyregion/at-best-schools-competing-for-best-performers-students-may-be-left-behind.html?pagewanted=all Mary Otero was not going to make the same mistake with her 11-year-old, Aaliyah, that she had made with her two grown children. They had both gone to Dewey — the neighborhood school, Charles O. ... http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/08/05/as-best-schools-compete-for-best-performers-students-may-be-left-behind/ GOING TO SCHOOL AND NOT GETTING AN EDUCATION http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/07/14/flanbwayan-report/ By KIRK SEMPLE Eulogia was scared and adrift. At 25, she was poor, pregnant and an illegal immigrant. She worried about how she would pay for medical care and raise her baby, and even whether a trip to the hospital might prompt her deportation to Mexico. But when ... http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/07/13/illegal-immigrants%e2%80%99-children-suffer-study-finds/ By FERNANDA SANTOS Budget belt-tightening threatens to send school librarians the way of the card catalog. The schools superintendent in Lancaster, Pa., said he had to eliminate 15 of the district’s 20 librarians to save full-day kindergarten classes. In the Salem-Keizer school district in Oregon, all 48 elementary ... http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/07/13/in-lean-times-schools-squeeze-out-librarians/ By SAM DILLON In a sharp rebuke to the Obama administration, the Republican chairman of the House education committee on Thursday challenged plans by the education secretary to override provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Law, and he said he would use a House rewrite of ... http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/07/13/republican-challenges-administration-on-plans-to-override-education-law/ By JACQUES STEINBERG Thanks to a new Web site made available today by the Department of Education, families can compare the various costs of particular colleges and universities, as well as the trends in that pricing, according to an article in The Times by my colleague Tamar Lewin. As ... http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/07/13/a-new-web-site-aims-to-help-families-compare-tuition/ By TAMAR LEWIN Students and families can compare colleges’ tuitions, the pace at which they are rising and the net cost of attending each college on a new Web site the Department of Education made public on Thursday, fulfilling a legislative mandate. The new lists, required by the ... http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/07/13/what%e2%80%99s-the-most-expensive-college-the-least-education-dept-puts-it-all-online/ By SHARON OTTERMAN CHICAGO — Catching up to the reality already faced by many of its members, the nation’s largest teachers’ union on Monday affirmed for the first time that evidence of student learning must be considered in the evaluations of school teachers around the country. In passing ... http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/07/13/union-shifts-position-on-teacher-evaluations/ By ALAN SCHWARZ WASHINGTON — Amid one of the most contentious periods in recent memory for teachers’ unions, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, on Monday called for education reform that emanates from teachers and their communities, rather than from “those who blame teachers for ... http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/07/13/union-chief-faults-school-reform-from-%e2%80%98on-high%e2%80%99/ BY Rachel Monahan DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Sunday, June 26th 2011, 4:00 AM The city Department of Education evaded state law to pay a controversial consultant $287,500, officials with the city controller's office charge. Even after the Education Department's $20 million teacher-recruitment contract with The New Teacher Project got rejected in March on technical ... http://www2.flanbwayan.org/news/2011/07/13/ed-dept-evaded-state-law-to-pay-287500-to-controversial-consultant-controller-charges/