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Tom Corbett Budget: 5 Painful Cuts in Pennsylvania
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsNext in line for a leaner, meaner budget: Pennsylvania. Republican Gov. Tom Corbett just unveiled his 2011-12 budget proposal for the commonwealth, and sure enough, the $27.3 billion plan contains a number of steep cuts. For the past two years, Pennsylvania has benefited from a $2.6 billion federal stimulus package; that money runs out in June, and the commonwealth is grappling with a $4 billion deficit. The proposed budget "resets Pennsylvania's fiscal clock to 2008-2009 levels," The Morning Call reports. And while it's largely in keeping with current conservative thinking about state ...
Opinion: Can Michelle Rhee Save Public Schools?
By Richard Whitmire - AOL NewsIf school reformer Michelle Rhee hasn't yet parachuted into your hometown, chances are she soon will. You'll recognize her immediately -- she's the blunt-talking, young Korean-American woman praised by governors, scolded by teachers unions and pursued by the press. Alex Wong, Getty Images Former Washington, D.C., public schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is taking her successful reform ideas nationwide. As someone who spent the better part of a year researching a book about Rhee, allow me to set the scene for what made her famous in Washington, D.C.; why she's visiting your state; ...
New York Budget: The 5 Most Painful Cuts
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsNew Yorkers, prepare for a fresh round of belt-tightening. On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo derided the state's budget system as "a sham," saying that a tangle of loopholes and arcane regulations prevented meaningful reductions in spending. He added that the secretive budget process and influence of special interests reminded him of the corrupt Wall Street practices he once fought as New York state's attorney general. "This all must end," he said. Today Cuomo issues his first budget, which is designed to close the state's $10 billion deficit. Although several of his "cuts" are actually ...
Charter Schools: An Experiment With Mixed Results
By Sarah Butrymowicz - Politics DailyINDIANAPOLIS -- Principal Marcus Robinson strides down the hallway of Indianapolis' Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School, past a wall that proclaims in huge letters "COLLEGE OR DIE." His maroon polo shirt and khakis match the uniforms of middle-schoolers standing in line for the bathroom, their noses buried in books. In a booming voice, Robinson praises them for their diligence then continues with his rounds. He picks up pieces of trash, chastises students who are talking as they switch rooms, and singles out a girl for being too loud, telling her, "I need your leadership." Robinson's ...
Tea Party Candidate: Abolish All Public Schools
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 14) -- School's out ... forever? Tea Party candidate David Harmer, who is running as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 11th District, thinks the nation's public education system should more closely resemble the way it looked in 1825. In other words, Harmer would abolish public schools altogether. In an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000, Harmer wrote the following: To attain quantum leaps in educational quality and opportunity, however, we need to separate school and state entirely. Government should exit the business of running and funding ...
'Race to the Top' School Funding Has States Rethinking Education Reform
By Danny Yadron - Politics DailyWASHINGTON -- When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan picked only two states as winners in the first round of a national competition for education money, he meant to spur unsuccessful states into action. Demonstrate the bar is high, he said, and people will try to reach it. Two weeks later, as some of the finalists prepare their second attempts for Race to the Top money, it's unclear if that's the case. Several of the finalists publicly declared that they might not reapply, and others plan to resubmit slightly tweaked or even pared down versions of their original applications. "I have not ...
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