Tuesday Reading List: More Funds For Tennessee Schools Under Proposed Budget
- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s budget includes nearly $48 million in growth for the state’s education funding formula. (Times Free Press)
- Two bills that would expand Georgia’s voucher program could be headed to the floor of the Senate for a vote. (AJC)
- A new rating of state science standards calls Mississippi and Arkansas’ standards more clear than Tennessee’s. (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
- Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu criticized Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to expand vouchers, but supports other key elements of his reform proposals. (Times-Picayune)
- Jindal criticized the Louisiana Association of Educators’ Michael Walker-Jones for questioning whether poor parents can hold their schools accountable. (Times-Picayune)
- Compared to Indiana’s voucher plan, Jindal’s reform plan seems more moderate. (Monroe News Star)
- Birmingham residents will learn the results of a study of air toxins on the site of a proposed elementary school this fall. (Birmingham News)
- Georgia school districts are waiting for news about whether federal officials will waive No Child Left Behind’s accountability system and let the state replace it with a new “College and Career Ready Performance Index.” (WMAZ)
- Alabama’s career and technical educators are worrying that lawmakers will cut funds for their program. (WHNT)
- More than 600 parents and other Atlanta residents sounded off about the city’s first school redistricting plans in nearly a decade. (AJC)
- Five teachers implicated in the Atlanta cheating scandal will learn next week whether the state will strip them of their licenses. (AJC)
