(Washington Examiner) — Maryland and D.C. schools won a combined $325 million in federal funding on Tuesday for their efforts to enact educational reforms pushed by the Obama administration. The money will be used in part to collect enormous amounts of data to more effectively evaluate teachers’ performance, to create tests aligned with new national […]
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Georgia’s second largest teachers’ group said Wednesday it will send a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan formally opposing the state’s bid for new federal school reform grants. The announcement by the 43,000-member Georgia Association of Educators comes on the heels of a legislative victory it shared last week with […]