Afternoon Announcements: July 13, 2012

It’s Friday! Hooray! Please accept both our afternoon announcements and our wishes for a fantastic weekend. We’ll see you Monday!

The Washington Post leads off today with a story on the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit against the state of Michigan, which alleges that the state is violating the “right to learn” of children in the Highland Park School District. The suit says, “hundreds of students in the Highland Park School District are functionally illiterate,” according to the article. This sets up an interesting legal battle about education as a right for students.

Afternoon Announcements: July 5, 2012

Hi and happy Mond- err, Thursday. It just feels like Monday here at the Alliance. How about where you are? We hope that you enjoyed the fireworks and festivities wherever you were yesterday. Today we’ve got a couple of announcements for you, and we’ll have some belated Stats That Stick a little later!

Let’s get right down to it.

Education Week reports that a part of Georgia’s Race to the Top grant has been put on high-risk status by the U.S. Department of Education. $33 million of the state’s $400 million grants is in jeopardy because the Department think that Georgia has “strayed too far from the vision it originally outlined in its winning application,” specifically in the area of their plan dealing with teacher evaluation.