wants to kill off a foreign language program for elementary students. Critics say it only helps the 2% of schools that receive the 1.6 million foreign language grant. The article says it would 85 million to put in every single school in Georgia.

in the South Gilbert area. One school is opening to relieve overcrowding.

on new teachers in the Chicago Public Schools is out. The report talks about all first and second year teachers in the Chicago Pub Schools having to be in the GOLDEN(Guidance, Orientation, Leadership, Development,Empowering New Teachers) program which totaled around 1800 for the 2004-2005 school year. The school district also has other induction programs for teachers.

The report does says that around 20% do not even participate in an induction program. I say that is a complete no-no.

The report says that the newest teachers usually wind up in the classrooms that have more students that lack skills to learn and teach in classrooms that usually have the most violence.

Most teachers are positive about the teaching expirence they had says the report, but being in an induction does not influence them into staying on as a teacher.

This report is a good read imo.

that students who are in the Head Start program show academic gains while in the program. The latest data they looked at was from the 2003 school year. Scores Such as vocabulary went up for all races looked at.

When they looked at some older data to compare with the 2003 school year data it shows that students are able to indentify more letters of the alphabet. 10.1 letters in spring of 2004 versus 7.2 letters in the spring of 1998.

is challenging the Department Of Education and the NCLB bill by declining rules forcing thousands of immigrant students to take a federally mandated test. Board members do not want them to take an exam they know they are going to fail.

that the New York’s highest court has ordered the state to pay at least 1.93 billion more to New York City schools for a better education.