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City Panel Approves Special Education Inclusion Plan

A plan to restructure the city’s special education program by funneling thousands of learning disabled children into mainstream classrooms -- an increasingly popular practice around the country -- was given the go-ahead Wednesday night when the Panel for Education Policy voted to finance it. Said Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott after the vote: “We’re pure, at least with regards to the goals we are ...

SchoolBook: City Panel Approves Special Education Inclusion Plan

A plan to restructure the city’s special education program by funneling thousands of learning-disabled children into mainstream classrooms — an increasingly popular practice around the country — was given the go-ahead Wednesday night when the Panel for Education Policy voted to finance it. Following some criticisms to the plan, Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott said after the vote, “We’re pure, at ...

Romney’s education vision

Anybody who thinks President Obama’s education policies have been unfriendly to public education should pay close attention to Mitt Romney’s newly announced school reform vision. Because what you don’t like about Obama’s, you may like even less about Romney’s. Read full article >>

On Education, Romney Seeks Distance from Obama -- and Bush

In a speech at the Latino Coalition's Annual Economic Summit in Washington DC on Wednesday, Mitt Romney called the U.S. education system a failure. Every child deserves a quality education, he said, particularly minority students who are consistently under-served. Fixing it, according to Romney, is the "civil rights issue of our era."

Education Honors: Published May 25, 2012

Kaitlyn M. Bessey receives Outstanding Finance Award