For the first time this week, the Occupy LA protesters weren’t the most radical presence at City Hall agitating for change and social reform. Instead, that honor goes to the folks at City Year Los Angeles, who celebrated their fifth year of service with the Los Angeles Unified School District with an opening ceremony on [...]
Michigan’s state Senate narrowly passed a bill Thursday that allows the expansion of charter schools in the state. The bill now goes to the state House after the 20-18 Thursday vote resulting from some Republicans joining Democrats opposing the legislation. It’s part of a seven-bill package titled the Parent Empowerment Education Reform Package that aims [...]
After a surveillance video in 2009 documented Virginia school bus driver Alice Davis Holland and special education aide Mary Alice Evans hitting, kicking, and choking Timothy Kilpatrick, a severely autistic , Bedford County student, the pair was convicted of criminal charges earlier this week, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The shocking video shows Holland and Evans [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A judge has upheld the firing of a central Ohio public school science teacher who was accused of preaching religious beliefs in class and of keeping a Bible on his desk. Knox County Common Pleas Judge Otho Eyster said in his two-page ruling Wednesday that he found clear and convincing evidence that [...]
North Forest High School in Houston is on lockdown after a student reported that another student brought a gun to school, KRIV FOX 26 in Houston is reporting. No gunshots were fired and the student suspected of bringing the gun has been arrested, but police believe the student gave the gun to another student, according [...]
It all started one day at the beginning of last year when she forgot to pack her lunch. Mrs. Q — a pseudonym that this elementary school teacher used for a year online — had to, for the first time, eat a meal from the school cafeteria with her students. She wasn’t happy with what [...]
In a time of educational debate and shuffling nationwide, a college dropout, businessman and paragon of technological innovation emerged as an inadvertent, but forceful, momentum for an educational revolution around the world. Steve Jobs wasn’t the best student in the traditional sense, as he dropped out of college within six months of enrolling. But in [...]
Lake Zurich High School’s proposal to randomly test students for drug use has angered a group of parents, who showed up to voice their opposition at a community forum on the issue Wednesday evening. Calling themselves ‘Lake Zurich Parents of Kids Rights,’ a group of 13 parents who have vocally opposed the proposed policy in [...]
After Steve Jobs stepped down from his post as Apple’s CEO, his innovative career was enthusiastically celebrated by the media and public alike. Starting with his founding of Apple Computer when he was in his early twenties, Jobs has left his mark on the personal computer, the laptop, the mobile phone, the tablet computer, recorded [...]
Black and Latino students are disproportionately more likely to experience harsher punishments by schools for infractions and misbehaviors, according to a new report by the National Education Policy Center. At times, the punishments are unrelated to student safety. While past research has suggested that zero-tolerance discipline that removes troublemakers can improve the learning environment for [...]
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