Backers Back Out in California
After gathering a purported 900,000 signatures and spending an estimated $2.5 million (including $750,000 from the California Teacher Association [CTA],...
After gathering a purported 900,000 signatures and spending an estimated $2.5 million (including $750,000 from the California Teacher Association [CTA],...
In a wise concession to flexibility, the Virginia state board of education voted unanimously last month to exempt prospective teachers...
Hoping to avoid new and tougher standards for certification in the state of New York that took effect as of...
Maryland's program to lure retired teachers and principals back into the classroom (by promising not to reduce their pensions) as...
In news that rivals our recent piece about a Palo Alto principal outlawing extra credit for bringing tissues to the...
U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige's Monday announcement of changes to No Child Left Behind's teacher quality provisions brought quick and...
In a recent edition of the Teacher Quality Bulletin, we reported on Ohio's plans to use students' test scores to...
News of the Texas State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC) decision to pass a measure that would allow teachers with...
The Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative legal foundation headed by William Perry Pendley, is arguing that the federally financed...
Last month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it had reached its new limit on H-1B visas a category...
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has recently endorsed a 10-point plan that, among other things, would make it easier to fire...
Hidden within the gloomy depths of a fiscal 2004 appropriations bill lies a $1.5 million allocation for the Institute of...
Florida Last year the Florida legislature passed a law that scrapped the traditional salary schedule for teachers in favor of...
By an extremely narrow margin, the State Board of Education in Texas approved a measure last week that will permit...
For those of you who have been on Mars the past two weeks, you might have missed that Secretary Paige...