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		<title>Education Legislation introduced in Wisconsin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a new education reform Bill was introduced by the Wisconsin education legislative chairs, Representative Kestell and Senator Olsen and is based on the work of the Read to Lead, Educator Effectiveness, and Accountability Task force work which took place during 2011.
The major elements of the bill include:

Establishing a Read to Lead Development Council
Identifying struggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 2012 Issue of Your ACCESS to the Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Lakes West Comprehensive Center has released the January 2012 edition of our e-newsletter, Your ACCESS to the Region. As always, the newsletter updates recent progress on state work in Illinois and Wisconsin. This issue highlights the national landscape of Elementary and Secondary Education Act waiver considerations and programs and plans related to Illinois [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Receives Race to the Top Round 3 Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as 2011 ended, the U.S. Department of Education announced that seven states—Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania—will each receive a share of the $200 million Race to the Top Round 3 (RTT3) fund to advance targeted K–12 reforms aimed at improving student achievement.
Illinois is now one of 22 Race to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Illinois Learning Standards Online Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resources to support the new Illinois Learning Standards online tool are now more convenient and accessible. The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) has been working to help districts plan for and transition to the new Illinois Learning Standards. With support from the Great Lakes West Comprehensive Center, ISBE created an online tool for regional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 2011 issue of Your ACCESS to the Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Great Lakes West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Lakes West Comprehensive Center has released the October 2011 edition of our e-newsletter, Your ACCESS to the Region. As always, the newsletter updates recent progress on state work in Illinois and Wisconsin. This issue of the newsletter highlights charter schools and includes a feature article on current charter school developments, with a special focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress on the Assessment Consortia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Great Lakes West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New assessments are coming—word of the new assessments has been spread throughout the cities and countryside. Today we have news outlets and online media to spread the word with a speed that would shame even the best town crier. However, the effect of the message is the same as it would have been in days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annual Advisory Council Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.learningpt.org/greatlakeswest/wordpress/?p=721</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Great Lakes West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Lakes East and Great Lakes West Comprehensive Centers recently came together for their annual combined advisory board and council meeting. The meeting was held on August 16 in Washington, D.C., and included participants from all five states. During the meeting, each center engaged participants in focused state- and center-specific conversations on the work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 2011 issue of Your ACCESS to the Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Lakes West Comprehensive Center has released the July 2011 issue of our e-newsletter, Your ACCESS to the Region. As always, the newsletter updates recent progress on state work in Illinois and Wisconsin. This issue of the newsletter highlights the Common Core State Standards, with a feature article on regional and national initiatives working to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services jointly announced the new Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) program. The RTT-ELC program will help highly committed states provide low-income families with access to high-quality early learning and development programs from birth to age 5.
Throughout the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Resource! Alternative Measures of Teacher Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality had recently release the Policy-to-Practice Brief Alternative Measures of Teacher Performance. This new brief introduces five current examples of measures of teacher performance. Recent national policy initiatives have led to many states and districts re-thinking their teacher evaluation systems. Alternative Measures of Teacher Performance was created to assist [...]]]></description>
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