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The quality of education being delivered varies across private and public schools. Teachers can use movies about historical events to teach students how to critically view films and compare facts with the often-fictionalized versions depicted in Hollywood movies, writes Pennsylvania high-school history and government teacher Benjamin Barbour.

The EWG recommended that the state of Texas increase funding for public education, but that was met with stern disapproval from many on the Commission. With the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board scheduled to vote Thursday whether to give Superintendent Warren Drake authority to lay off employees, the two teacher unions are suspicious of what they’re hearing.

The West is generally envied by the East for its quality of education, the reason why a number of students from the East choose colleges in the West (only the rich are able to do so). In this blog post, Barbour suggests that teachers rely on other resources for facts about historical events and assign students to rewrite movie scenes to more accurately portray historical events.

The most cogent comment was made by Gina Perez (El Paso), who questioned why TEA would be included with the entities encouraging high standards for teacher preparation when it allows charter districts and DOI districts to exempt themselves from those same standards.

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For more than 30 years, Education Week has been the most respected voice in education journalism. Santelises and some other members of Chiefs for Change are advocating for knowledge in their states or districts, but most education leaders aren’t focused on the issue (including some members of Chiefs for Change). The purpose of the public school finance system and the relationship between state and local funding.

Until Wednesday, Republican House Speaker Dennis Bonnen has said he would prefer to give school districts flexibility on how to use additional funding and that he does not favor a key Senate proposal for $5,000 teacher pay raises. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization committed to covering one of America’s most important stories: the effort to improve schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education.

After a lengthy debate, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday agreed to give Superintendent Warren Drake authority to lay off employees, but not before hearing it from some of those 6,000 individuals whose jobs are potentially in jeopardy.

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The Seattle Times Education section covers schools at the district, state and federal level. Estacado High is one of 64 public middle schools and high schools in 32 states awarded a total of $67,000 to aid sports programs affected by tight budgets. Baton Rouge Magnet again clocked in as the top public school in its area and came in at fifth statewide behind four New Orleans area schools and No. 377 in the nation.

The Texas State Teachers Association said in a press release that updated research by the National Education Association shows the average teacher salary in Texas is dropping farther behind the national average. Brister, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, also indicated he prefers incentives, such as merit-based teacher pay, over recommending a general increase in school funding.

Amid growing concerns about its financial viability and the possibility of further state reviews of its operations, the board of directors of American International School of Utah voted unanimously Wednesday to close the K-12 public charter school. The adapted version of the show was designed specifically for middle school students and joins Disney’s Aladdin JR. and The Lion King JR.

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Christianity has been of the greatest importance to the USA since the time when the first settlers stepped on the Plymouth Rock. Richard Peña Raymond, D-Laredo, has also proposed five amendments that would give classroom teachers, counselors, librarians and nurses across-the-board $3,000 to $5,000 raises, while Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the top Republican on the House education committee, expressed skepticism about restoring access to Pell Grants for incarcerated students.

More than 300 Coppell Middle School West students are off sick with flu or flu-like symptoms, Coppell ISD has confirmed, some 25{861a28a83dbc1b7b1b987fadc42b035b6421658f94937813ec8062e268c0f75a} of its students. It’s celebration time for thousands of high school and college students in the Pikes Peak region. Since its inception in 2011, more than $738,000 has been awarded to some 630 schools across the nation.

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As more and more low-income families move into neighborhoods that once catered to the middle or upper class, one must be on the lookout for his own personal safety and report any criminal activity going on in their surroundings. According to data from the National Education Association, Texas teachers are paid $7,300 below the national average. Backpack Full of Cash takes an urgently needed look at how charter schools, vouchers and the privatization movement are threatening public schools.

Among the several amendments, the House will consider cutting school district’s tax rates even more, increasing funding for special education students, restoring a special pot of money set aside for gifted and talented programs, establishing a school safety allotment in the formulas, and automatically adjusting for inflation each year the base amount of money school districts get per student.
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