are not carved in stone says State schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick, they could get changed or even delayed.

would pay for one school district for three years so they can have 200 or even as many as 220 days of school. The bill comes out after the bill that wanted to shorten the school year to around 170 days.

reports on schools that are removing games of tag due to injuries and lawsuits. They have up a 56 second video of students who are now playing shadow tag.

looks at how the No Child Left Behind Act is working in eight school districts. The school district is home to 42,000 public school students and around 22,000 private school students. From the class of 2005 26% went on to a two-year college while 68% went to a four-year college.

Things they liked about the NCLB bill were Accountability, Striving to close the achievement gap, Family connections, preparing children to achieve standards, professional development benefits, and finally addressing the overall quality of education.

Some challenges and negative things about this bill were, funding problems, performance of educators as it pertains to the “highly qualified teacher” rules of the bill, meeting year 2014 goals, overemphasis on testing, impact on curriculum, data problem, and English Language Learners just to name a few.

A couple of recommendations they give is setting aside federal money for after-school programs for low-performing schools, private schools need to give out same performance information, and base accountability only on grades 4 and 8.

I found this report to be a nice read and certainly something I would love to see more areas in the US do.

The Rocky Mountain News reports that 50 teachers in the Teach For America program will be teaching in Denver Schools this fall.

that the fight for the year-round school plan in Wake County passed is not over with yet.