July 20th 2011
Derrick Lewis, a former player and assistant coach under Ed McCarthy at West Haven, has been named the next head football coach at Bassick, the school announced today.
Lewis, 29, was an all-state guard and a 2001 graduate at West Haven.
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July 19th 2011
NEW YORK – A New York City program that distributed performance bonuses to teachers will be permanently discontinued.
According to The New York Times, the Department of Education on Sunday said the decision was made after a study found the bonuses had no discernible effect on the way teachers did their job or on student test scores.
The study was commissioned by the city.
Tags: Bonuses, New York City, Performance Bonuses, York City
July 19th 2011
Late Thursday, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and 13 other senators introduced a bill that proposes the federal government fulfill a decades-old promise to pay 40 percent of the cost of educating students with disabilities, the Council for Exceptional Children’s Lindsay Jones tells me.
The proposal suggests the federal government would reach the 40 percent mark by 2021. For years, advocates of students with disabilities have pushed for the federal contribution towards the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The 40 percent marker was part of a pledge by Congress when that law was created in 1975. But current federal spending specifically for students with disabilities stands at about 16 percent.
Tags: Students, Students Disabilities
July 19th 2011
For the second year in a row, UT Southwestern Medical Center is the top-ranked hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, according to U.S. News World Reports annual ranking of the nations best hospitals.
UT Southwestern earned its No. 1 ranking by being nationally recognized in six specialties: urology, cardiology/heart surgery, diabetes/endocrinology, gynecology, nephrology and neurology/neurosurgery. The medical center previously had been recognized as No. 1 in 2010 based on U.S. News World Reports rankings.
These ratings are the latest acknowledgement of UT Southwesterns University Hospitals and Clinics place among the nations leading medical institutions in providing care to patients while remaining committed to ground-breaking research, said Dr.
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