- The National Council on Teacher Quality officially announced their newest project, monumental but oh-so-necessary: reviews of all 1,400 of America’s education schools. For a sneak-preview of what to expect, check out their Illinois and Texas reports.
- Are the teachers unions finally caving? Probably not. But the AFT has education reformers hoping with the release of a new plan, meant to be used for future collective-bargaining negotiations. The plan would expedite the teacher dismissal process and revamp teacher discipline.
- Marguerite Roza explains on NPR just what new school funding formulae should look like in the modern era. Hint: They’d be a whole lot more flexible.
- Parents who are annoyed with pre-dawn wakeup calls from school districts announcing snow days: Take a page out this Maryland father’s playbook. To avenge his lost sleep at the hands of a district’s automated caller service, the parent created a robocall of his own, set to telephone district leaders at 4:30 one morning, thanking them for their snow day reminders.
- When students act up, or disrupt or cut class, Texas school districts discipline them not with detention slips but with class C misdemeanor tickets. Tickets can cost the family as much as $500 a pop.
