“A new study may help older people and their doctors decide how to treat a very common and dangerous problem - a bulging abdominal artery threatening to burst. Fixing these weak spots by inserting a fabric sleeve into the artery, like a new tube in a bicycle tire, led to fewer deaths and complications than […]
“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give more than $10 million to help convert three underperforming Chicago high schools into teacher training centers, officials plan to announce Thursday. News of the donation comes on the heels of a proposal to close a half dozen Chicago schools because of low enrollment and to turn around […]
“School superintendents in the Washington area will collect salaries ranging from $157,200 to $279,340 in the fiscal year that ends June 30. Factor in benefits and perks, however, and the average annual compensation package swells to $351,730. Compensation for the school chiefs goes well beyond the salaries reported to the public, according to a review […]
“I was amazed to read that the Albany Board of Education members have not yet figured out why there is an enormous ‘exodus’ from the city school district to the charter schools that are cropping up and flourishing throughout the city. If the problem is simply one of a negative ‘perception’ as one school board […]
“Bipartisan agreement on a proposed bill may have paved the way for peace between the state of Wisconsin and the burgeoning virtual schools industry — or at least, for now, an uneasy truce. This is good news for the 3,000 children who have found a way to excel and learn outside of the traditional […]
“The state’s endangered free-standing public charter schools would get a financial windfall from the school districts their students come from under a bill filed Wednesday. The House Rules Committee relaxed its deadline to accept HB 1642 as a means to save tiny public schools like Cocheco Arts and Technology Academy and Seacoast Charter School in […]
“Lawmakers bristle over dictates to the hinterlands from the state folks in Atlanta. Except, of course, when the lawmakers themselves are the ones in Atlanta trampling local control. And that’s exactly what the House Education Committee did this week when it endorsed a charter school law that allows applicants to bypass local school boards and […]
“Foundry readers should check out the Wall Street Journal’s editorial on President Bush’s proposal for a national Pell Grants for Kids school voucher program. The Journal asks a question that Heritage posted last year: ‘If unrestricted federal education grants are kosher for college students, why not for grades K-12 too?’ Pell Grants allow students to […]
“In the United States of America, a very common feature is the charter schools. It is to be noted that while charter schools are a variant of public schools, there are certain essential differences. The charter schools are those which do not have to resort to the necessary rules and regulations that are essential for […]
“Will Tata Motors’ Nano be the Third World’s Model T Ford? Sixteen million Ts were produced during its 20-year lifespan from 1908 through 1927. It initially sold for $850, about $15,000 in today’s dollars. By 1915, due to the advantages of mass production, the price dropped to $440. It had a 2.9-liter engine, ran on […]
