releases a report saying that most of the students that are low income are in the southern states. The report shows off a massive increase in the amount of the states in the south from the years of 2000-2006 that have more than 50% of the students that are low income.

The show off NAEP 4th grade math scores for wealthy and low income students where the low income students across the nation are 21% below wealthy kids on the exam. They really needed to use to two different colors for the bar chart.

like to see in the school system report cards for parents. Thins included in the report card would include things such as if a child gets to school on time, IF Homework completed, and if they are properly nourished and dressed for the weather.

I think this is getting too intrusive and would not work. Even the article states this was tried in the Chicago area and failed.

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that Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein is going to limit the amount of students who can get into gifted classes. He wants only students who score in the top 5 percent on admissions tests to be in gifted programs.

to talk about his idea of paying teachers a minimum of 40 grand a year and providing college tuition if they do some national service.

The LA Times looks at this Democratic congressman who wants to fix the NCLB. He would like to see better pay for more performance in the school system and some people are not to happy about that idea.