Skip to main contentRemainders: The arrival of Obama's 2012 budget
By | February 15, 2011, 1:26am UTC - Obama’s budget is out and it includes a modest increase in education spending. (EdWeek)
- Though he’s requesting a lot less money for the “teaching and learning” fund. (EdWeek)
- The budget includes $900 million for a Race to the Top for school districts. (NYT)
- Rotherham says he’s skeptical the Race to the Top funding request will survive. (Eduwonk)
- Alison Stewart talks school turnarounds and phys ed with three education thinkers. (PBS)
- A new school librarian gets stuck in an unbelievably bad graduate class. (Education on the Plate)
- One UFT member says the union’s new ad attacking Mayor Bloomberg is too soft. (Chaz)
- Another thinks it’s just right. (Accountable Talk)
- Norm Scott: Why won’t UFT president Michael Mulgrew defend seniority layoffs? (Ed Notes)
- A college counselor travels to the Teach for America summit and reports back. (GS Community)
- How did PCBs end up in public schools and what do they look like anyway? (WSJ)
- Always putting “children first” could mean putting teachers last. (More Thoughtful)