by David SafierAccording to commmenter CCUSD Watch, Basis Scottsdale pays its teachers $100,000 per year in part from a grant from Intel's Craig Barrett and in part from its own master teacher fundraising program. The Basis schools in Tucson and Scottsdale are charter schools, meaning they can't pay their teachers 100 grand each on their … Read more
by David SafierHarold Levy, who used to be chancellor of NY City Schools, has come up with a list of Five Ways to Fix America’s Schools. He could've done much better. I'm not sure how he decided these are the most pressing issues we need to address. Only the first is interesting, but at best, … Read more
by David SafierA New York charter school opening in September will be paying its teachers $125,000 a year. I wrote about this months ago when the story first appeared in the NY Times, but now they've hired the teachers and are ready to go. The school will give preference to neighborhood kids — and it's … Read more
by David SafierA local group, Opening Minds Through the Arts, has this crazy (meaning well researched) idea that children benefit from art education in the schools, especially when it's an integral part of the curriculum, not something stuck on at the end of the day. I know little about the program myself, but it looks … Read more
by David SafierAccording to ASU News: Although this budget is intended to remain in compliance with the qualifications for federal stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the result of such fund seizures – along with a rollover of $100 million in university funding from the fiscal year 2009 to … Read more