Disabled-student vouchers fraud in Florida
Chavon Peoples, former administrator of Success Academy in Jacksonville, Florida, was arrested Wednesday in connection with charges that she defrauded the state of $400,000 by claiming that prospective or former students were attending the school on disabled-student vouchers when they were really in public schools. (See the short AP story from the St. Pete Times […]
Flag flap in Denver
A Colorado teacher was suspended this week for displaying foreign flags in a geography class. Colorado law says you can’t display another country’s flag on a public building, but there’s an exception for transitory displays for educational purposes. Geography teachers can’t display flags? A day later, the district reversed itself. Something tells me the administration […]
Graduation-rate report, just out, is already obsolete…
Seastrom et al.’s technical report on graduation rates, volume 1, was just released this week. (Hat tip: edspresso.) Kudos to the authors on it. And, unusual for an area in my research expertise, it’s already out of date. Warren’s 2005 paper was released while the report was in peer review and was addressed briefly in […]
Your next faculty meeting
By Sherman Dorn on August 26, 2006
Profgrrrrl has an absolutely dead-on description of a common faculty meeting dialogue structure. It definitely brought a grin to my face this morning.
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