1. More Race to the Top Fallout in New Jersey
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UPDATE: Bret Schundler, fired from his post of education commissioner by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, has admitted that the fatal error in his state's Race to the Top application was his and his alone. ...

2. Stranger than Fiction: Secretary Stealing from School, Busted by Granddaughter
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A Queens school secretary charged over $6,000 to a Middle College High School procurement account by purchasing luxuries on Amazon.com for herself and her family. Over seven years, Debbie Rizzo used ...

3. Los Angeles Spends $1.2 Billion to Build Three Schools
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Next month, Los Angeles will unveil what some are calling the most expensive public school ever. The RFK Community Schools complex, built on the infamous Ambassador Hotel, where school-namesake Robert ...

4. Trouble with Top-Down Federal Funding for Education
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Joyce Irvine is a casualty of bureaucratic necessity. A stellar principal by all accounts, Ms. Irvine was traded by her Burlington, Vermont school district for $3 million in federal stimulus funding. ...

5. Scholarship and Grant Spotlight: Teachers Attending Rachel's Challenge Summit, from PACE
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Professional Association of Colorado Educators, Association of American Educators' state partner in Colorado, awarded ten scholarships for PACE members to attend the Rachel’s Challenge Summit, "Soar ...

6. Update: Massachusetts Legislature Passes Measure to Save Retired Marine's Teaching Position
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Earlier this week the Massachusetts legislature approved an amendment to save retired USMC Maj. Stephen Godin's job. The measure, which had been defeated by Democrats the week before, exempts public school ...

7. Retired Marine Under Attack for not Joining Teachers Union
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After logging 2,000 hours flying F-4 Phantoms and serving in five overseas deployments, retired USMC Maj. Stephen Godin decided to take on an equally demanding challenge–teaching public high school.  ...

8. Scholarship and Grant Spotlight: Deaf Storytellers Entertain Students, from AAE
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The Association of American Educators has awarded a classroom grant to LaWanda Brewer, deaf and hard-of-hearing teacher at Becky-David Elementary in St. Charles, Missouri. The grant supported bringing ...

9. Something Has to Give: Schools Cutting Lunch Options
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"Food justice" advocates are in an uproar over New York City's plan to save $23.7 million by cutting meal choices, food-service workers, and free lunches. According to The Wall Street Journal, Mayor Bloomberg's ...

10. Scholarship and Grant Spotlight: ACT Prep Materials for Idaho High School, from NWPE
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Northwest Professional Educators, Association of American Educators' state partner for Washington, Oregon and Idaho, awarded a classroom mini-grant to Kathy Muscat, guidance counselor at Jerome High School ...

11. Politicians Targeting Teachers Unions in Budget Crunch
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Politico reports that Republican and some Democratic politicians have turned on public workers and their labor unions—particularly teachers unions, including the NEA and the AFT. According to Politico, ...

12. AAE's Tracey Bailey on Teacher Activism Gone Too Far
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AAE’s Director of Education Policy and 1993 National Teacher of the Year Tracey Bailey was interviewed in a story about teacher activism for Congress.org. The article reports on the activism of ...

13. Controversial Arizona Law Prohibits Some Ethnic Studies Programs
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On the heels of a controversial illegal immigration law that has reignited a national debate, Arizona's legislature has passed a law outlawing some public school ethnic studies programs accused of promoting ...

14. Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan on Education Policy
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Having never served as a judge, Elena Kagan, current U.S. Solicitor General and President Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, has a "sparse" record on education ...

15. Students Sent Home for Wearing American Flags on Cinco de Mayo
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At Live Oak High School in California, several students were sent home for wearing shirts featuring American flags to school yesterday, Cinco de Mayo. The students, frustrated to be punished for displaying ...

16. AAE Celebrates Charter Schools
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As well as being National Teacher Appreciation Week, May 2-8, 2010, is National Charter Schools Week. Read President Obama's proclamation here. AAE is a fervent supporter of charter schools and ...

17. AAE Appreciates Teachers, This Week and Always
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This week our nation pays special attention to educators during National Teacher Appreciation Week, and, in particular, on National Teacher Appreciation Day, tomorrow, Tuesday May 4th. Students and parents ...

18. New Jersey Update: Voters Say No to School Budgets
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With 58% of school district voters defeating their local budget, some are declaring at least a partial victory for Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.), including the governor himself who called the election ...

19. Alternative Certification Programs Compete with Education Schools' Monopoly
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Traditional education schools are under attack, reports The New York Times. Alternative paths to becoming a teacher, like Teach for America and the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence ...

20. AAE's Tracey Bailey on CNN Student Texting Story
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AAE's Director of Education Policy and 1993 National Teacher of the Year Tracey Bailey was interviewed by CNN's American Morning about the phenomenon of student texting. Watch the video here. Is ...