Current Labor News Today
Obama's education law overhaul to focus
The Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor's No Child Left Behind law in hopes of replacing an accountability system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:10:21 GMT
America does not get it
In the last few days I have been following the visits of both Vice President Joe Biden and Senator George Mitchell to the Middle East and the different and competing messages coming out of Washington, Ramallah, Tel-Aviv and Cairo the seat of the Arab League.
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:08:02 GMT
Metro jobless rate jumps
The Georgia Department of Labor reported Wednesday that the preliminary unadjusted unemployment rate in metro Savannah rose to 9.3 percent in January, up eight-tenths of one percentage point from a revised 8.5 percent in December.
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:05:22 GMT
Obama Promises New Education Plans
The Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor's No Child Left Behind law in hopes of replacing an accountability system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:47:40 GMT
Duncan wants 3 ratings for schools in education overhaul
The Obama administration will ask Congress to toss out the two-tiered pass/fail school rating system of the No Child Left Behind education law and replace it with one that labels schools one of three ways: high-performing, needs improvement or chronically low-performing, according to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan .
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:42:26 GMT
|
