Governors Take Varied Paths in Boosting K-12 Aid
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As states consider increases to K-12 spending amid better economic conditions, governors on opposite sides of the partisan divide are proposing significantly different plans and arguments for the best ways to use new education aid. Two prime examples: ...

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K12 Inc. Reaches Tentative Settlement in Investor Lawsuit
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The for-profit education provider K12 Inc. has reached a tentative settlement in a class-action securities lawsuit brought by investors who said they were misled by the company's business practices and academic performance. The online schools provider ...

Tracing Technology's Unintended K-12 Effects
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The truth is that the face of K-12 education is in a constant state of change. Educators who have been in the field for several decades may notice that the pace at which changes in methodology and student demographics occur today is much faster than in ...

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Scott in state address: $1.2B more for K-12, new breaks for businesses
Central Florida News 13
After once slashing education spending, Scott highlighted his plan to give Florida public school teachers a $2,500 pay raise and increase K-12 education funding by $1.2 billion. He noted that the total education investment of $10.7 billion for K-12 ...
Governor: 'We Don't Want A War On Teachers; We Want A War On Failure'StateImpact Florida
Scott's message to Florida: Policies to improve jobs, education are workingNaples Daily News
Scott pushes boost to education in State of the State addressWOKV
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Kroger Announces Education Funding
Inside INdiana Business (press release)
s Central Division continued a comprehensive, multi-year strategy focused on strengthening K-12 education at a 10:00 AM news conference this morning at Kroger Central Division Headquarters in Indianapolis. Local officials and leaders from many K-12 ...

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GOP K-12 Leader Gets Earful on Policy
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John Kline, head of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, meets with school board leaders and superintendents at a round-table session in his Minnesota district. The congressman often tests local sentiment on how federal policies are playing ...

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Academic Performance and Educational Quality Claims in Securities Class ...
Business Wire (press release)
BUSINESS WIRE)--In federal court documents filed today, the Lead Plaintiff in a class action securities lawsuit against K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN) voluntarily and permanently dismissed the claims it made about the academic performance and educational quality ...
K12 Inc. Appoints Adam L. Cohn of Knowledge Universe to Board of DirectorsThe Herald | HeraldOnline.com

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K12 INC. : Academic Performance and Educational Quality Claims in Securities ...
4-traders (press release)
In federal court documents filed today, the Lead Plaintiff in a class action securities lawsuit against K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN) voluntarily and permanently dismissed the claims it made about the academic performance and educational quality of K12-managed ...

Albany Tribune
The 5 States Most Vulnerable to Sequestration's Education Cuts
Stateline
Automatic federal budget cuts will slash more than $1 billion in K-12 education dollars this year, paring everything from Title I money for low-income students to school improvement initiatives. The reductions in K-12 spending, part of the 5 percent ...
Is Sequestration the New Normal for Federal K-12 Aid?Education Week News (blog)

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NCLB Waiver States Want Reauthorization, Sort Of
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A new report out today by the Center on Education Policy shows that while states are eager for a congressional rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act, they are very apprehensive about what it would mean for the accountability redesigns that they've ...
Federal K-12 RegulationsKFYR-TV
KIRSTEN BAESLER ET ALIA: ND Senate's vote on preschool bodes wellGrand Forks Herald

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JFAC approves K-12 funding boost, online education expands
IdahoReporter.com
Despite Gov. Butch Otter's call for only a 2 percent increase in K-12 education funding for the next fiscal year, Idaho's public schools are in store for a slightly bigger funding increase. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna said ...
A big hearing on Idaho's K-12 budget: a preview …The Idaho Statesman (blog)
Idaho Budget Writers Vote To Boost Education SpendingBoise State Public Radio
Idaho Education Budget To Be SetLocalNews8.com

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Why This $100 Million Student Information Database Is 'A Godsend' For ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Local education officials will have all legal control over their students' information, and will be able to share that information with private companies selling educational products and services. It's "a godsend for us," Jason Lange, CEO of education ...

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K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents
Chicago Tribune
March 4 (Reuters) - An education technology conference this week in Austin, Texas, will clang with bells and whistles as startups eagerly show off their latest wares. But the most influential new product may be the least flashy: a $100 million database ...

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K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents
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"You can start to see what's effective for each particular student," said Adria Moersen, a high school teacher in Colorado who has tested some of the new products. The sector is undeniably hot; technology startups aimed at K-12 schools attracted more ...

K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents
Reuters
"You can start to see what's effective for each particular student," said Adria Moersen, a high school teacher in Colorado who has tested some of the new products. The sector is undeniably hot; technology startups aimed at K-12 schools attracted more ...

Arne Duncan Stands Firm: Sequester Would Squeeze Schools
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However, it's really too early to know exactly how many layoffs, furloughs, or programmatic cuts will result from sequestration (which would represent the largest cut to federal K-12 aid in recent history). School districts—not to mention states, and ...

Pennsylvania, Texas, Wyoming Apply for NCLB Waivers
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Frankly, I can't wait to read Texas' application. The Lone Star State, which has shunned most federal education initiatives, had indicated it would apply for a waiver without agreeing to a lot of the strings U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was ...

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Q&A: Federal K-12 Policy Chief Shares Outlook
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As the U.S. Department of Education's point person on K-12 policy, Deborah Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, draws on expertise from a career spent as a teacher, principal, district superintendent, and state ...

House OKs massive K-12 bill
Bismarck Tribune
Kim Koppelman, R-West Fargo, questioned Sanford on HB1319. He asked if the state may be putting itself in a risky situation by providing a set percentage of funding for K-12 education. Sanford said the percentage of state funding wasn't the most ...

Arne Duncan's Education 'Sequester' Claims Questioned
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Yesterday, the Washington Post put Duncan through the fact-check ringer—giving him "Four Pinnochios" for his statements about pink slips already going out to teachers, which is what the education secretary told Politics K-12's Michele and other ...