Curious about the big splashy new NPR education
story about education funding that just rolled out this week, telling us how massive the funding inequalities are between states and among districts in the same states?
Not exact matches
A
story in the Aug. 13, 2008, issue of
Education Week
about the federal Teacher Incentive
Fund gave the wrong name for the Santa Monica, Calif. - based National Institute for Excellence in Teaching.
The detailed
story of her son, who is now grown and living in another state, must be saved for a different day, but the myriad questions that even the synopsis raises
about accountability over federal special
education and disability services
funds is important to keep front and center during the current reform conversation.
During the 2014 budget session, we joined forces with other
education advocacy groups and organized a campaign to share student
stories about school
funding shortfalls and ensure the legislature restored school investment to more adequate, pre-Recessionary levels.
According to a recent article in the Nation magazine entitled, 9 Billionaires Are
About to Remake New York's Public Schools — Here's Their
Story, both the Chair and Vice Chair of the Families for Excellent Schools Board of Directors are among the super elite that are
funding the extraordinary effort to undermine public
education in the United States.