Education

Our referral logs led me back to the following comment to a Kmareka post: The fact of private schools is that parents can reign in or nullify the academic freedoms that make public and tenured institutions great opportunities to open young minds. I couldn’t have put it better, myself. Even the incorrect usage of “reign”…

Gloria S. Redlich of the Block Island Times has her ear to the ground on a number of education trends that will be reaching all Rhode Island communities very soon. 1. Apparently, Rhode Island school committees are already hearing that flat funding of education aid, or perhaps even an aid cut, is being planned for…

Let us not forget that in this area can be found yet another dubious “Rhode Island, We’re Number One!” rating. From a February 8 Providence Journal article by Jennifer Jordan: Rhode Island already claims the highest percentage of students in special education in the country – 21 percent compared with the national average, 13.7 percent…

I know it’s de rigueur to advocate for those who require additional help in school in an effort to bring them as near to the average line as conceivably possible, but something just seems wrong (in certain lights, immoral) about opposing this change, as described in the Rhode Island Catholic, in a state with as…

Both Jennifer D. Jordan‘s funding formula advocacy in the news pages of the Projo…An audience of 500 educators, politicians, child advocates and business leaders met at the Rhode Island Convention Center yesterday to discuss one of the most pressing education issues facing the state — developing and enacting a fair school funding formula.…and Russell J…

Hurrah for the community newspaper! Unlike the news department of the Projo, which uncritically builds into its coverage the assumption that a new “funding formula” can somehow magically solve Rhode Island’s education problems, the editorial board of the Warwick Beacon takes a more questioning view…Problems in Rhode Island’s educational system indicate the state doesn’t need…

The following aspect of the Rhode Island Department of Education’s approach to dealing with dramatically tightening budgets is wrong-headed for two reasons: The $1.16-billion budget proposal also doubles fees for teacher certifications and permits, from $100 for a five-year professional certification to $200, for example, in an effort to generate about $400,000 in revenue. The…

The Utah voucher plan that would have made a $500 to $3000 voucher available to every child in Utah, applicable to the school of their choice, was defeated in a voter referendum yesterday. The Salt Lake City Tribune has a nuts and bolts election report…Voters decisively rejected the will of the Utah Legislature and governor…