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Common Core Standards Announced

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June 4th, 2010

On Wednesday, the final set of common academic standards was released by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to a crowd of supporters at Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee, GA. The United States is one of the very few industrialized countries with no...

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RTTT Round 2

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June 2nd, 2010

35 states and DC submitted applications yesterday in Round 2 of Race to the Top to win a share of the remaining $3.4billion provided by Obama’s administration for educational reform. The total grant amount is $4.35billion out of which $350million will be used for a separate competition to improve quality of assessments, and $600 million of...

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SB 263

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May 21st, 2010

Senator Sokola introduced legislation last week to support one of the commitments that Delaware made in the Race to the Top application, to ensure that only effective educators receive tenure-like protections.  Technically Delaware does not have a tenure law, but educators receive a Continuing License after three years and get basically the...

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