State's top teachers offer advice on education policy
Source: timesargus.com Posted By: Benny Penito..5364 days ago
Educators have long used their "teachers' voices" to command attention from rowdy children. Now, a few of Vermont's finest are angling for similar authority in a national debate over the future of public education.
On Tuesday, under an open-air pavilion on a small farm in Waitsfield, about 30 past winners of Vermont's "Teacher of the Year" award gathered to discuss the future of the controversial No Child Left Behind act.
The landmark legislation is up for federal reauthorization; and as Congress....