Heartland Newspapers - Education

New Hampshire Tax Credit Safe—For Now

Ashley Bateman
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May 02, 2013
State Senate Republicans blocked a bill to repeal New Hampshire’s new tax-credit scholarship law, but pending court cases and repeal language in the state’s education budget have left the program,

Greg Forster: The Research Conclusively Supports School Vouchers

Joy Pullmann
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May 02, 2013
School choice opponents frequently claim vouchers don't improve recipients' academics, hurt public schools, cost taxpayers, increase segregation, and even reduce civic unity.

States Explore Alternatives to Standardized Testing

Evelyn B. Stacey
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May 01, 2013
Online schools, mobile technology, and independent students are beginning to bring promising innovations to the heart of modern education: Standardized testing.

Kansas Law Lets Teachers Choose Political Donations

Ben DeGrow
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April 30, 2013
A labor expert is praising a new Kansas law for promoting teachers' freedom to make informed political choices, and opinion polls show strong public support for it, including union members and gove

Little Charter School Bill Passes Kentucky Senate, Fails House

Mary Petrides Tillotson
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April 29, 2013
A limited bill to introduce charter schools in Kentucky passed the state’s Senate, but failed in the House.

North Carolina Questions Common Core

Rachel Sheffield
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April 26, 2013
North Carolina legislators have introduced a proposal that would require their state to examine national Common Core education standards.

Michigan House Blocks Common Core Implementation (updated)

Joy Pullmann
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April 25, 2013
The Michigan House passed a budget bill prohibiting the state department of education from using state money to implement the Common Core national education standards and associated tests.

‘State-Led’ Common Core Pushed by Federally Funded Nonprofit

Joy Pullmann
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April 24, 2013
A central defense of the new national education standards, now generating spirited public debates, is that the federal government did not mandate or create them.

How Tennessee Voucher Momentum Splintered

Ashley Bateman
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April 23, 2013
Years of voucher proposals, polls showing parent support for vouchers, and a governor-sponsored voucher bill did not culminate in a new Tennessee voucher law this spring.
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