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Joy Resmovits

Lawsuit, Teacher Layoffs Follow Wisconsin Budget Signing

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.30.2011 | Home

Just days after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed the state's budget with massive cuts to education funding, Wisconsin's teachers are on the chop...

Special Ed Director Allegedly Pockets $10 Million In Public Funds

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.23.2011 | Home

Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump has identified criminal wrongdoing in the investigation of John B. Barranco, the Merrimack Special Educati...

Employment and Education: What's Not Working

Christine Brandel | Posted 08.23.2011 | College
Christine Brandel

We all want students to get great jobs and lead happy lives. But pretending that a piece of paper is all that's needed to do this is something we can no longer do. We need to stop telling students they've got to have a degree and instead tell them they've got to learn.

Joy Resmovits

Oregon Teachers Union Laments Lack Of Process Surrounding Education Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.14.2011 | Home

At 6 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Tony Crawford looked at his clock in Canby, Oregon and lamented the change the next sixty minutes would bring. "For the n...

Joy Resmovits

Teachers In Texas Rally Against Education Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.07.2011 | Home

As Texas lawmakers prepare to cut billions in education funding and give school districts a heavier hand in determining teacher pay, the state's educa...

Delaware Strives To Deliver On 'Race To The Top' Promises

Education Week | Michele McNeil | Posted 08.29.2012 | Home

In one English classroom here, Delcastle Technical High School teacher Nicole Irani experimented over the past few weeks with open- and closed-book q...

Two Years After A Student Wrote Congress For Help, Community Breaks Ground On A New School

AP | SEANNA ADCOX | Posted 06.18.2011 | Home

DILLON, S.C. — Construction is starting on a new school in South Carolina more than two years after a student wrote Congress about the decrepit ...

Democrats: Minn. Bill Targets Poor, Minority, Special Needs Kids

Posted 06.02.2011 | Home

In a state with one of the largest achievement gaps, Democrats say Minnesota's education funding bill ostensibly takes aim at programs for disadvantag...

Still Unmaking the Public University

Christopher Newfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Christopher Newfield

The conjunction of the American right's cultural and budgetary crusades created traps into which middle class voters and higher education officials have fallen again and again.

How An 'Education Bank' Could Help Struggling Schools

The Atlantic | John F. Ince | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Last year Mark Zuckerberg invited four hundred of his closest friends, many of them Silicon Valley's movers and shakers, for a screening of "Waiting f...

California's Gamble on K-12 Education is Gamble on Our Future

Robert Denham | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Robert Denham

Predicating education financing on California's legislators busy posturing on the budget for re-election or on voter emotions in June of 2011 is looking more and more like a bad bet.

Judge Rejects Kansas Parents' Plea To Pay More Taxes For Schools

AP | BILL DRAPER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Parents in a wealthy suburban Kansas City school district cannot seek to raise property taxes above a state cap because it co...

Obama's New Education Budget Faces An Uphill Funding Battle

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

President Barack Obama's budget request for increased spending in education is likely to face a tough fight against Republicans – and even if en...

Elise Foley

GOP Proposes More Spending Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans filed a bill Friday evening proposing $60 billion in spending cuts for current levels and hundreds of millions of doll...

Prince Donates $250,000 To American Ballet Theater's Education Programs

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Prince is moving into arts philanthropy in a big way, with a particular focus on arts programs for the younger generation. Before he performed at New ...

Colorado K-12 Funding Face Bleak Prospects

EdNewsColorado | Todd Engdahl | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

There was no good news about the future of state support for K-12 schools at the Joint Budget Committee's Friday briefing on the Department of Educa...

America's Priorities: Making Early Education Matter

Amy Weisberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Amy Weisberg

We hear politicians talk about priorities all the time, especially leading up to elections, but once elected, the priorities suddenly shift and I wonder if they were ever really there in the first place.

Closing the Other Gap

David Donaldson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
David Donaldson

The buzz words in education often focus on achievement or access gaps, but there is another gap that needs to be addressed, the financial gap.

Performance Funding: No College Student Left Behind?

Christine Brandel | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Christine Brandel

Recently Teresa Lubbers, Indiana's Higher Education Commissioner announced that colleges and universities should expect more funding to be tied to per...

If We Were Really Serious About Educational Technology

Scott McLeod | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Scott McLeod

If we were really serious about educational technology, we would. Here are 10 ways to get you started.

Education on a Shoestring Budget and Determination

Pam Lowe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Pam Lowe

From an educator's perspective, a big part of our problem right now is money; the lack of it and how it is dispersed.

How Will Republican Wins Affect Federal Education Policy?

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

As Republican candidates gain dozens of seats in the House, claiming a majority over Democrats, education leaders wonder how the shift will impact fed...

Voters Make The Call On Tough State Education Measures

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

As millions of Americans filled out their midterm ballots, they had difficult decisions to make about K-12 education policy in their respective states...

How Election Results Will Affect Education Policy Nationwide

Education Week | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

The results of today's midterm elections -- which are expected to reflect voters' frustration with the protracted economic downturn and wariness in ma...

Bombs, Cookies And The Cross: A Christian View On Military Spending

Shane Claiborne | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Shane Claiborne

Let us put our hands together and build a world where the schools have enough money and the militaries have to sell cookies for their uniforms.