Morning Bell: State To Contest Ruling On Takeover School Funding

State to challenge court ruling on takeover schools – “The Indiana Department of Education plans to appeal a court ruling in which it was found to have improperly counted students as attending five troubled schools taken over by the state when they had actually transferred elsewhere before the school year began.” Indiana Business Journal

Demands of teacher evaluations are taking a toll on principals – “Although progress has been made, it has not been fast enough to meet the original goal: To have one long and one short observation for each teacher by the end of the first semester.” Lafayette Journal & Courier

No, the Common Core Curriculum Does Not Ban The Catcher in the Rye – “Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, the new Common Core curriculum coming to Ohio and most other states by 2014 does not mandate that schools toss books like… To Kill a Mockingbird from what they teach.” StateImpact Ohio