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WASHINGTON - As the Obama administration pushes for more charter schools, a teachers' union is pushing for a bigger role in them. It's a new development for the charter school movement, a small but growing - and controversial - effort to create new, more autonomous public schools, usually in cities where traditional schools have failed. On Tuesday in New York, the ...

[photo:72419] Federal spending meant to jump-start the economy slowed last week, two weeks after President Obama vowed to "ramp up" the pace of that aid. Last week, federal agencies allocated about $5.2billion in new stimulus aid for projects across the country, according to disclosure reports the agencies released Thursday. That's less than at any point in the previous month and less ...

Philadelphia’s high-tech School of the Future (SOF), designed with help from Microsoft, was supposed to revolutionize education, writes Meris Stansbury on eSchool News. So far, we’ve seen the future and it doesn’t work very well. (I had doubts when the school opened in 2006.) "It would teach at-risk students critical 21st-century skills needed for college and the work force by emphasizing ...