The Best of a Bad Week (Best of the Week)

How to Make the Most of Your Vacation GinnyBonk
Back to school construction? Sara Mead in EW
How to save public education Edutopia via PEN
Father of vouchers foresees 'breakthrough' USAT

Table: Awareness of Federal LawEW
Split Over Schools . . . WashPost
--And responsibility WashPost
A student speaks up in praise of testing N2P

States fudging dropout rates Stateline.org
Pentagon creating student database WashPos
House restores $300M ed tech cut eSchool News
Dems propose $3.4B for new teacher aid eSchool News
Public engagement in school finance PEN (PDF)
Education Carnival #20 (thanks for the link, Jenny)