on 5% of Miami-Dade teachers that are not going to showing up to work on Monday as a protest to the Gov. in the state.

on teachers in the local school district that agree to shorten LAUSD school year.

on area teachers that are bracing for layoffs.

on a new report out saying that Philadelphia School District had failed to monitor 67 charter schools, leaving both it and the taxpayers “extremely vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse.”

is out with a short report looking at elementary students in Arizona. They found that at the end of the 2008 school year that around 85% of the students stayed at the same elementary school they6 went to no matter how poor the performance was.

on a new report out by some university of North Carolina professors. They say that new teachers are much less effective than their more experienced colleagues, but the did say that people coming out of the Teach For American program performed much better than new teachers that were not in the program.