The New York Times reports that the city is going to pay up to $14,600 in a housing subsidy to try to get more math, science and special education teachers to teach in the needy schools inside of its school district.

The Education Week people report on a Center on Reinventing Public Education report that says that teachers in the state of North Carolina with high licensing scores are more effective.

CNN reports that a No Child left behind loophole causes around 2 million students to not get scored so that we can track how students score on standardized tests.

LA Times reports on new guidelines set for textbooks for the state of California. Reading and English language arts textbooks for Elementary and Middle school grades are the only grade levels effected in the new guidelines.

The Rocky Mountain News reports on High School graduation requirements proposed for the students in the Denver Public School System.

The Chicago Tribune reports two seperate articles on Textbooks. Article one says that 22% of districts are using textbooks that are at least 15 years old in the state of Illinois. Some books are so bad they have to be duct taped and use rubberbands to keep them together.The second article is on parents who are shocked at the prices they have to pay for textbooks for his or her high school student.