Morning Bell: Takeover School Transition, Purdue Presidency, South Bend Layoffs
EdisonLearning makes transition into Gary’s Roosevelt – “EdisonLearning officials were greeted by broken handrails, ramps and crumbling steps, open drains in the floor, missing ceiling tiles throughout the school, some broken bathrooms and missing fire extinguishers. Graffiti covered lockers and some had been burned. A metal detector at the entrance had been removed.” Gary Post Tribune
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Gov. Mitch Daniels, soon to be Purdue's 12th president.
Michael Davis: Maybe a politician is the perfect fit for the academy – “Some of the more enraged Purdue faculty members have expressed a particular disdain for the choice of a politician as president. But it has been my experience, as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and as a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where I later taught as an adjunct professor, and as a Nieman Fellow, that the back-stabbing sabotage in the halls of state legislatures are nothing compared to the internecine politics of deciding tenure.” Lafayette Journal and Courier
Test improvements punctuated with teacher layoffs – “The layoffs amid plaudits for a school that showed major improvements on the ISTEP+ standardized tests underlined the pressure on Indiana’s schools to achieve better results with less money amid a massive overhaul of Indiana’s education system.” Associated Press
Parents pitch in less for college – “The skyrocketing cost of tuition and tough economic times are forcing American families to cut back on college spending. As families retrench, they are getting more creative in how they pay for tuition, student loan provider Sallie Mae found in a study that it’s releasing today.” USA Today
Why the Ticking Time Bomb of ‘Sequestration’ Could Decimate Education – “‘Sequestration,’ a term you will be hearing more about in the coming months, is a fancy legislative word for cutting funding after it has already been budgeted. In practice, what this means is that Congress takes back federal funds after they’ve been disbursed.” GOOD