By Mary Ann Rankin
Horace Mann, the 19th-century American education reformer whom many credit with founding the nation’s public school system, recognized the importance of education, deeming it the great equalizer. Today, this has never been more tru…
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States have gone a bunch of different directions in giving districts money through the federal School Improv…
Continue Reading →Published Online: March 6, 2012
Published in Print: March 7, 2012, as Governors Cautiously Optimistic as Revenue Tide Begins to Rise
Governors meet on the Education, Early Childhood, and Workforce Committee panel during the National Governors Assoc…
Continue Reading →Governors meet on the Education, Early Childhood, and Workforce Committee panel during the National Governors Association’s winter meetings in Washington. After years of recession-battered budgets, revenues are beginning to rise, portending additio…
Continue Reading →Financial problems have haunted the Chester Upland school district in Pennsylvania’s Delaware Valley for nearly two decades. Now, the district is teetering on the brink of financial collapse once again.
—Matt Rainey
No rescue yet for Chester Upl…
Continue Reading →Lawmakers applaud during the State of the State speech by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal in the state capitol in Atlanta.
—Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal & Constitution/AP
Here are summaries of recent annual addresses by governors around the country.
CO…
Lawmakers applaud during the State of the State speech by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal in the state capitol in Atlanta.
—Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal & Constitution/AP
Here are summaries of recent annual addresses by governors around the country.
CO…
Nine states pledge to improve youngsters’ education
The nine states splitting $500 million in Race to the Top early-learning grants must now deliver on a slate of ambitious promises to improve the quality of early-childhood education for tens of t…
Continue Reading →Reading specialist Catherine DeFelice helps Tyrell Pope, 17, write his portfolio research paper in an English class at Delcastle Technical High School in Wilmington, Del., where federal Race to the Top money is being put to use at the school level.
Continue Reading →Published Online: May 10, 2011
Published in Print: May 11, 2011, as Wavering District Back on RTT Track
Policy Brief
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s decision to back Delaware officials who planned to withhold $11 million from the Chri…
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