on a magistrate that says that says the Miami-Dade school district should not have to give teachers the raises guaranteed in their contract.

on teachers in the area protesting education budget cuts. A video is also included.

on the Kentucky General Assembly that could wind up passing Senate Joint Resolution 19 that would direct the Kentucky Department of Education to write new, more concise and more rigorous core content standards for mathematics from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

says that schools in the state could wind up getting 1 billion bucks from the federal stimulus bill.

is out with a brand new look at teachers.

They say that only Iowa and New Mexico are the only two states that require any evidence of effectiveness to be considered having tenure.

44 states though will give a teacher tenure in three years or less.

23 states require that new teachers be evaluated more than once each year.

13 states specify that teachers who have been rated unsatisfactory multiple times should be eligible for dismissal. 26 states though require that teachers who receive even one unsatisfactory evaluation are placed on an improvement plan.

22 states will permit teachers to remain in the classroom for three years or more without passing licensing tests, but seven states force are test be completed before going in the classroom.

The best state they looked at was South Carolina with a B- grade. 6 states got a 6, 8 states got a C-, and the rest got a D+ or worse with 6 states getting an F rating.

looking at high school graduation rate collection data.

The report looks at different high school graduation calculation data methods. EST says that the nation is a long ways away from having accurate data for calculating the graduation rate.