PE News

Perry: Texas must continue to lead in education reform
Sweetwater Reporter, TX -
Mar 24, 2006... for public schools. Perry spoke at the statewide education summit hosted by the Texas Public Education Reform Foundation. “As a ...

County executive proposes a 9.3 percent increase in public ...
Business Gazette, MD -
Mar 23, 2006by Guy Leonard. County Executive Jack Johnson today said that $1.5 billion of the $2.36 billion county budget he is proposing will ...

The Costs of a Free Education
CU Columbia Spectator, NY -
Mar 24, 2006... Though Tiersten cited large classrooms and underfunding as concerns, she said she is happy with the school and pleased with her choice of public education. ...

Competition as an Effective Education Reform
Mar 26, 2006 ... “You know competition is not for children. It’s not for human beings. It’s not for public education.” Former teacher, Ruth Holmes Cameron. ...

Don't put public education up for sale
DetNews.com, MI -
Mar 24, 2006... For-profit companies are out to make money and see great potential in the more than $780 billion spent annually on public education in this country. ...

US public education goes to the sidewalks
The Daily Athenaeum Interactive, WV -
Mar 22, 2006We have hundreds of streets, parks and forests within walking distance of our courthouse. A person can escape with their thoughts ...

Charters and choice
Mar 26, 2006 ... ... Victorville. Before that he was an assistant principal for five years and has spent a total of 22 years in public education. His ...

AP Enterprise: Per-pupil spending varies widely between districts
Mar 26, 2006 ... ... often is far less than the per-pupil amount promoted publicly because the state's budget includes spending for all aspects of public education, from charter ...

Tech money may fund public education
Mar 26, 2006 ... for Texas Tech University's El Paso medical school is being ...

Single-sex education: Trying it can't hurt
Mar 26, 2006 ... ... from high school four years later, but only one-third of black male freshmen do, according to a report put out by the Schott Foundation for Public Education.

Honoree puts stress on public education
The Republican, MA -
Mar 22, 2006By SANDRA E. CONSTANTINE. SOUTH HADLEY - Back in the 1960s and 1970s when he was working on construction jobs at the University of ...

TEXANS IN WASHINGTON Latino perspective now at 'the table'
Mar 26, 2006 ... ... "They really instilled in me, as did my experience in the public schools, a real appreciation for the value of public education," Zamora said. ...

Need for public school teachers greater than ever
Mar 26, 2006 ... This time the need for teachers is even more critical as the Every Child Is Entitled to An Adequate Public Education Act will go into effect October 2007, and ...

Rebuilding New Orleans' public schools
Mar 26, 2006 ... ... "We have to have a whole new mind-set about how we approach public education," says Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University and head of a mayoral committee ...

The education judge
Mar 26, 2006 ... ... local school systems. The trouble is, North Carolina's lines of accountability in public education are disconnected. The governor ...

Elementary teachers laud government commitment to public education
CCNMatthews (press release), Canada -
Mar 23, 2006... 23, 2006) - Elementary public school teachers are pleased the Ontario budget released today maintains the government's commitment to improving public education ...

Provincial Budget is Good for Public Education
Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada -
Mar 23, 2006TORONTO, March 23 /CNW/ - Funding a strong public education system is the most important investment we can make as a society. OPSBA ...

Public education to be celebrated
Durham Herald Sun, NC -
Mar 14, 2006DURHAM -- The Celebration of Education, Durham's annual event for business leaders, community members and educators to honor public education, will be held at 7 ...

Hundreds Urge Governor and Lawmakers to Improve Public Education ...
WIVB, NY -
Mar 14, 2006... from all across the state are gathered at the steps of the Capitol in Albany, to urge the governor and state lawmakers to improve funding for public education. ...

Public education must polish the apple
Fayetteville Online, Fayetteville NC -
Mar 10, 2006... But public education began losing traction in the early 1970s, and that is why you now see communities with so many private schools. ...

Letter: Support public education
Daily News Transcript, MA -
Mar 15, 2006... people that best reflect your goals and values I would ask you to consider the depth of support each candidate has shown for the institution of public education ...

A Vanishing Breed Many administrators say expectations too high ...
Mar 26, 2006 ... ... What it all amounts to is a huge challenge for public education, a "help-wanted" situation not just in terms of needing qualified bodies. ...

Governor’s race is battle along party lines
Lonoke Democrat, AR -
Mar 24, 2006... on the path of reform and innovation begun by Gov Mike Huckabee, and to bring further efficiency and accountability to the state’s public education system. ...