Report Calls Education a National Security Issue

"The U.S. educational system is facing 'a national security crisis,' an independent task force from the Council on Foreign Relations warned in a report Tuesday."

Record Decline in Spending by States, Cities, and School Districts

"States, cities and school districts trimmed spending at the end of 2011 by more than any time in a decade, a USA TODAY analysis finds."

Education Panel Head Rips No Child Left Behind Waivers

"The U.S. House Education Committee chairman accused the Obama administration of forcing its education policies on states through No Child Left Behind waivers."

10 States Freed From Some 'No Child Left Behind' Rules

"Ten states are being granted waivers to free them from parts of the No Child Left Behind law, the White House said Thursday."

States Weaken Tenure Rights for Teachers

"America's public school teachers are seeing their generations-old tenure protections weakened as states seek flexibility to fire teachers who aren't performing. A few states have essentially nullified tenure protections altogether, according to an analysis being released Wednesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality."

Education Makes a Political Comeback in Washington

"Long on the political sidelines, education is making a comeback in Washington, driven in large part by Democrats."

Indiana School Voucher Program Cheered, Criticized

"In April, the Indiana Legislature provided another option — vouchers that allow low-and middle-income families to use public funds to help pay private school tuition."

18 States Have Changed Their Teacher Tenure Laws This Year

"Lawmakers in 18 states have passed bills changing the tenure laws for teachers in public schools this year, according to a new report from the Education Commission of the States."

U.S. to Grant Waivers for No Child Left Behind

"With a growing number of states rebelling against the No Child Left Behind law and stalled efforts in Congress to reform it, the Obama administration says it will grant waivers to liberate states from a law that it considers dysfunctional."

Newark School Woes Transcend Money

"Six months after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Oprah to give $100 million to improve Newark's strapped and struggling schools, $99 million is still sitting in the bank. . ."

Teachers, School Leaders Gather in Denver

"The nation's education chief chastised teachers and their bosses in equal measure Tuesday as he launched what the Obama administration is touting as the first-ever national summit between union leaders and administrators."

U.S. Plan to Replace Principals Hits Snag: Who Will Step In?

"The aggressive $4 billion program begun by the Obama administration in 2009 to radically transform the country’s worst schools included, as its centerpiece, a plan to install new principals to overhaul most of the failing schools. That policy decision, though, ran into a difficult reality: there simply were not enough qualified principals-in-waiting to take over."

Schools Get Shortchanged in Federal Impact Aid

"The Lawton School District is among the more than 1,300 school systems nationwide eligible to receive Impact Aid, and among the majority that each year receives less aid than it qualifies for."

Early Childhood Education Benefits Both Kids, Taxpayers, Study Says

"Investing in early childhood education can yield impressive economic benefits — both for children and taxpayers, according to a National Institutes of Health study that followed participants until age 26."

Obama Issues Call for Education Reform

"President Barack Obama is asking Congress to extend a $10,000 college tax credit and pay for thousands of new science and math teachers as part of a broad rewrite of the nation's education system."

House of Representatives Passes $26B Teachers Bill

"The House has passed a $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers from election-year layoffs."

A Popular Principal, Wounded by Government’s Good Intentions

"Ms. Irvine was removed because the Burlington School District wanted to qualify for up to $3 million in federal stimulus money for its dozen schools."

Cost of Progress at a Failing School

"Locke High represents both the opportunities and challenges of the Obama administration’s $3.5 billion effort, financed largely by the economic stimulus bill, to overhaul thousands of the nation’s failing schools."

No Child Left Behind Could Get a Makeover

"Senior House Republicans and Democrats plan to announce Thursday that they will team up to http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/18/politics/washingtonpost/main6219771.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionsArea;cbsnewsSectionsArea.3, a rare show of bipartisanship in the polarized Congress."