This Week In Education: AM News: House Committee Chief Has Common .

Schools Is SupportedNYT: A bit of prominent Republicans, including Representative John Kline of Minnesota, chairman of the House Education Committee, believe in local control, are wary of the standards movement and seem probable to fight the common-curriculum proposal.Teacher Layoff Plans in Los Angeles Pose Broad ImplicationsNYT: If the opinion is upheld for the apparently inevitable layoffs this summer, Los Angeles, the second-largest district in the country, will be among the beginning to dismiss teachers using criteria other than seniority. PLUS: Pressure Mounts To Ax Teacher Seniority RulesNPR].No evidence mayoral control led to D.C. schools' better test scores, report saysWP: There is no evidence that the alteration in government has been a gene in improved standardized test scores, according to the first major independent subject of D.C. school reform.Memphis Voters To Decide School Merger ProposalNPR: After Shelby County officials asked the nation to differentiate the county into a new taxing district, the city school board dropped its school charter and strained the merger vote.Longer school year: Some schools see test scores rise with more classroom timeLAT: The Los Angeles Unified School District has shaved days off the calendar to deal with its budget crises.Miami's Education Success StoryAP: The traditionally low-achieving school has replaced its head and lots of its staff, and saw academic standing improve dramatically.The Way You Learned Math Is So Old SchoolNYT: If you're a raise of a certain age, your kids' homework can be confounding. Blame it on changes in the way children are taught math these days €" which can make you smell like you're not really well with numbers.British TV chef in food fight with LA schoolsAP: The six-episode show was to rotate around one of Oliver's favorite causes - making school lunches healthier - but ran under a rolling pin when the Los Angeles Unified School District objected to the chef's key ingredient - TV cameras.

Obama to meet students, faculty at Boston schoolAP: Known as a pilot school, it serves students in grades 6-12. According to its Web site, the train has an 85 percent graduation rate and 93 percent of graduates go to college. Common Programme for Public