is offering students a chance to take for free a practice ACT exam.  The free exam is funded by grants from the 3M company.

to allow students to take part or all of one algebramath class in the eighth grade.  Middle school students in the district are on a block schedule, but they do take 85 minutes a day of Engligh and Math classes.

want to revive a lawsuit that got dropped in 2005 on NCLB funding.

must change the passing grade on tests during the school year in order to meet NCLB rules and regulations.  A change in the passing grade could mean that some students will have to take the test again because they would have failed it.

have a new report out on the college education system.  They say that for every 100 ninth graders that go to school only 18 of them finish college in six years.

They say that states need to rethink college funding, aid, and college debt levels which have more than doubled in ten years. The report also says that a change has to be made to the twelvth grade to something like early college high schools or dual enrollment schools.

The Christian Science Monitor has an article on this report.

have too many applicants, but too few jobs.  The Aurbun school district got 1,000 resumes for only six jobs.  They article does say that their a shortage of teachers in the math and science sector though.
This is like the first time I have ever seen an article say that a school district has too many teachers applying for a teaching job.