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Jejak Panda Senantiasa Menyambut Kedatang Anda Untuk Membaca bandarqq Do you remember Schoolhouse Rock?   I can still sing along with “I’m Just a Bill.”   Remember the poor bill who had to sit there in committee waiting to become a law?   I loved those old commercials, but one thing I learned years ago was that prior to sitting in committee something that is “just an idea” can’t move along the legislative chain unless a bunch of senators and representatives endorse it by signing what’s called a Dear Colleague letter.   And that’s what I have been doing all day today.   I and well over a hundred other teachers from writing project sites from all over the country have been visiting our legislators, asking them to sign Dear Colleague letters that will allow the National Writing Project to continue to compete for funding from Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (otherwise currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act), which...

Jejak Panda Jumpa Lagi Kita Diblog Kesayangan Anda ceme 99 online   Two interesting bits of information were reported on March 27.   The Hartford Courant reported that the legislature’s education committee had removed a moratorium on charter school expansion.   And The New Haven Register reported that New Haven’s Board of Education president Carlos Torre had accepted a position on Achievement First’s Board of Directors only days after Torre had helped squash a new partnership between Achievement First and the New Haven Public Schools. Quite a banner day for charter supporters, I’d say. I know a lot of teachers who work in charter schools, and I have done observations of teachers in charter schools.   There are good, hard-working teachers in charters just like there are everywhere. My concerns and objections are not with teachers or even individual charter schools.   Teachers are teachers and several studies have demonstrated that across t...