ABCUSD Teachers, Staff Converge and Look at The Year That Lies Ahead - Patch.com

ABCUSD Teachers, Staff Converge and Look at The Year That Lies Ahead Patch.com Last week more than 1,200 ABC Unified School District staff members, including teachers from the district's 30 schools, childcare and after-school programs along with school board members, faculty and city leaders, gathered on the Cerritos High School ...

Guest Column: Quality after-school programs are critical to boosting child ... - Arizona Daily Star

Guest Column: Quality after-school programs are critical to boosting child ... Arizona Daily Star Nearly one-third of Pima County third-graders in 2011 failed math, and 26 percent failed reading. One can easily see that the trend gets worse not better as these children get older. More than half (51 percent) of eighth-graders failed the math portion ...

FACT CHECK: Secretary Arne Duncan on Education Cuts - Heritage.org (blog)

Heritage.org (blog)

FACT CHECK: Secretary Arne Duncan on Education Cuts Heritage.org (blog) But even if federal education spending were to be cut by 20 percent—a goal worth pursuing—would that mean fewer teachers, fewer resources for poor and disabled students, and fewer after-school programs, as Duncan suggests? Since the 1970s, federal ... and more »