June 14 2004 Edition

THIS WEEK IN NCLB:
Teachers' Unions Seize Opportunity To Provide SES (Education Week)
NCLB puts focus on para-educators: Education Week
Feds look into Fresno tutoring (Fresno Bee)
Fresno Unified reprimanded for discouraging expensive tutoring (San Jose Mercury News)
Florida: Getting it all together? (The Education Gadfly)
A test in Florida (Washington Post)
Schools Graded a Success by State, a Flop by Feds (St. Petersburg Times)
Forty percent can switch from failing Dade schools (Miami Herald)
Failing schools may face takeover (Miami Herald)
Academic Watchlist Skyrockets (Chicago Sun-Times)
400 Schools Taken From Failure List (Chicago Tribune)
Title I Funding: Who's Gaining, Who's Losing & Why (CEP) PDF
State Will Perform Transfer Inquiry (Lakeland Ledger)
Kerry wants federal afterschool program (New York Times)
Wisconsin Bucks No Child Left Behind (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Education politics (Eduwonk.com)

NEWS OF NOTE:
Teachers' Job Satisfaction Rises to Highest Level in 20 Years (Harris Poll)
More Children Are Passing Md. Reading and Math Tests (Washington Post)
High schools nationwide paring down (Education Week)
Colleges get flak for teacher training (Stateline.org)
Supreme Court keeps 'under God' in Pledge
The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times
Fraud Charges Cloud Plan For 'Wired' Classrooms (CSM)
In Pilot Project, A New Role For Teachers (NYT)
Some School Districts Balk at Making Cyberschool Payments (USAT)
Tennessee considers online testing for all students by 2010 (The Tennessean)
Wasted time fighting charter schools (Seattle Times)
Figures Show No Drop In National Obesity Numbers (Houston Chronicle)
Sodas removed from school machines (St. Petersburg Times)

AROUND CHICAGO:
Stewart confirmed as new Chicago Teachers Union head (Tribune)
Teachers Union Challenger's Win Confirmed (Tribune)
Lawsuit Seeks To Force Schools To Graduate Eighth-Grade Girl (Sun-Times)
State has a strange way with words (Tribune)

SCHOOL LIFE:
The Killer Gown Is Essential, but the Prom Date? Not So Much (NYT)