that will be short roughly $3.6 billion for schools, social services and other public needs in 2009-11 according to revenue forecast numbers released today.

Washington Township elementary schools are going to get some modular classrooms to relieve overcrowding.

Also the same school district is looking to use some stimulus funds to to fund IB classes.

on school board members who do not like the idea Eugene Sanders who is the CEO of the school district has where stimulus money would used to pay 200 older teachers to become substitutes and tutors. After two years they would have to retire or resign,

is out with a new report that looking at merit pay plans for teachers. They are not happy with this idea.

out with a new report looking at Massachusetts vrs Hong Kong when it comes to math.

They say that the Hong Kong exam is more low stakes than the Massachusetts exam.

They give loads of examples from the math exam for the two places they looked at. Both exams had sections that were not in the other exams though. The Hong Kong exam is clearly the harder exam as they state.

The Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb has asked the federal government to declare the local school district a under “special presidential emergency declaration” rules so it can get some emergency funding. Emergency declaration status is usually declared for natural disasters.

I say they do not get extra money like that, but this is one the worst school districts in the nation.

One short article is on students and families fleeing the school district.