are going to get less pension benefits because the state has no legal way to recover over 800 million bucks dished out to all public employees that retired in the years of 2001 to 2004.

have out a new poll out saying that nearly 2/3 out 1,010 people polled wished they have taken more foreign language instruction while in high school. 36% would have taken more math and 41% would have taken more science.

I think these poll results say that students love to stick to the basic minimum required of them to graduate.

Chicago Public Schools to repay 16.8 million bucks because schools in that area failed to fully staff schools.

more students are going to drop out of high school according to comments submitted to the state Department of Education and reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

releases a new report on teacher turnover rate costs. In this study they look at five different school districts. They looked at the Chicago Public Schools (IL), Milwaukee Public Schools (WI),
Granville County Schools (NC), along with Jemez Valley Public Schools and Santa Rosa
Public Schools (NM).

The calculated that the turnover cost per year in Chicago was 86 million bucks per year over over 17 grand per leaver. It was over 15 grand per leaver in Milwaukee, 10 grand per leaver in Granville, and under 5 grand in Jemez Valley.

The NCTAF estimates that the national cost for teacher turnover rate is around 7.3 billion per year.

is out on salary gaps and how they effect poor students and how they effect minority students. The report looks at 10 school districts in the state of Texas.

The two reports showcased the same exact results. Teachers in the schools with either high minority or high amounts of poor students had pay that was lower that schools that did not have those problems.