(Rice university mba) Education officials extend MAP-testing period (The Springfield News-Leader)
March 3rd, 2007
Education officials extend MAP-testing period (The Springfield News-Leader)
Because so many schools in Missouri have missed so many days due to ice and snow, state education officials announced today in a news release they will extend the period during which public schools may give students the mandatory Missouri Assessment Program tests. For the first time, this year’s MAP “testing window” will be extended by one week. Missouri’s 524 public school districts now have the …
Concerns over funding formula dominate education hearing (Legislative Gazette)
Concerns over funding for some districts under Gov. Eliot Spitzers proposed foundation aid formula dominated discussion at a joint budget public hearing on elementary and secondary education last week.
Education secretary defends early-education grant expansion (The York Dispatch)
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s top education official on Thursday defended a proposed expansion of an education-grant program that would have the state spend $100 million more on preschool and full-day kindergarten.