http://www.edvoters.org Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:17:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Democratic National Convention, August 25-28, Denver, CO Republican National Convention, September 1-4, St Paul, MN http://www.edvoters.org/events/132 Washington Post Editorial August 20, 2008 Barack Obama and John McCain have some useful ideas on education. But something bolder is needed. EDUCATION HAS had a cameo role in a campaign dominated by foreign policy and the economy. What little discussion there's been by the two presumptive major-party nominees has fallen along the ... http://www.edvoters.org/news/an-i-for-incomplete To address rising property taxes, Governor Paterson has been pushing for a property tax cap that would severely limit local spending and have a devastating impact on public schools. Property taxes are a real issue, but Governor Paterson’s ‘tax cap’ plan is the wrong solution. That’s why Education Voters of New ... http://www.edvoters.org/news/public-schools-in-new-york-state-are-the-latest-victim-of-sheer-political-expediency Moving to sweep away the tangle of inaccurate state data that has obscured the severity of the nation’s high school dropout crisis, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will require all states to use one federal formula to calculate graduation and dropout rates, Bush administration officials said on Monday. The requirement would ... http://www.edvoters.org/news/us-to-require-states-to-use-a-single-school-dropout-formula