Education Dept. offers more time to reach goals
WASHINGTON — States can ask for another year before being required to use student test results to decide whether to keep or fire teachers, Education ...
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Bipartisan proposal on student loans circulating
WASHINGTON — Students applying for financial aid for the coming school year could find some comfort in a bipartisan student loan compromise taking ...
Schools bill to give states more control
WASHINGTON — The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday finished its sweeping rewrite of No Child Left Behind that eases coast-to-coast ...
Education Notebook: Mann Middle student to attend leadership academy
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Democrats reject GOP No Child Left Behind option
WASHINGTON — The good intentions of No Child Left Behind have not yielded good policy, the Democratic chairman of the Senate education panel said ...
OVERNIGHT MONEY: Spending bills moving
The House Appropriations Committee will slog its way through another fiscal 2014 spending measure on Tuesday.
Senate introduces No Child Left Behind successor
WASHINGTON — The one-sized-fits-all national requirements of No Child Left Behind would give way to standards that states write for themselves under ...
Five Questions as NCLB Reauthorization Moves Forward
Well, forwardish. There's going to be a lot more action in Congress this year than we've seen at any time since way back in 2001, when the No Child ...
Republicans: Give governors more school say
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors would be relegated to cheerleaders for the nation's schools, and governors would be ...
NECAP will have cost state $48M by 2017
When Rhode Island stops paying for the New England Common Assessment Program test in 2017, it will have spent more than $48 million over the course ...