TACOMA, Wash. — A judge said Monday he’s considering giving Washington state’s third-largest school district the option of replacing teachers on the picket line as a strike continued despite the judge’s order to return to work. “That came as quite a surprise,” district spokesman Dan Voelpel said. “We didn’t ask about that in court. He [...]
Public schools in Wisconsin will have to make do with $800 million less from the state over the next two years, under the budget passed by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-led Legislature. But state spending on programs that provide public dollars to private schools will see a net increase of nearly $17 million. And, [...]
A 14-year-old from Stafford, Va. is being suspended from school for 10 days after being handcuffed and placed in a cop car for what he says was a “harmless prank.” Brian Thompson, a student at Colonial Forge High School, ran down the sidelines at a school football game last week wearing a banana costume — [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district has won a prestigious prize in public education, which will provide $550,000 in college scholarships for needy students. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools landed the Broad Prize for Urban Education, an award the Eli and Edythe Broad (BRODE) Foundation gives annually to urban districts that show the most gains in [...]
A 9Wants To Know Investigation into YouTube videos of Thornton High School students fighting hit harder than expected Monday after 9News uncoveredsimilar fighting clips from Cherry Creek, Douglas County, Jefferson County, and Denver Public Schools. Many of the videos appear to have been recorded on cell phones and uploaded to YouTube under the real names of students [...]
The tug of war between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Teachers Union over the mayor’s strong pushes for instituting a longer school day has gone public with the launch of a new page on the Chicago Public Schools website that campaigns for the change. Filed under “District Initiatives” on the main CPS website and [...]
WASHINGTON — Young people immersed in the online world are encountering racist and sexist slurs and other name-calling that probably would appall their parents and teachers. And most consider it no big deal, a new poll says. Teens and twentysomethings say in an Associated Press-MTV poll that people feel freer to use hurtful language when [...]
A federal proposal to alter the makeup of school lunches has a few of Colorado’s political representatives playing hot potato. Senator Mark Udall fears the proposal, which aims to reduce starchy vegetable servings to one cup weekly, will unfairly present potatoes as less healthy than other vegetables. According to 9News, Colorado is the fourth largest producer [...]
The mother of a 16-year-old southwest suburban high school student who lost his left eye during a chemistry demonstration has filed a lawsuit against the teacher she claims is responsible. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the lawsuit, filed Friday, alleges that students at Oak Lawn’s Harold L. Richards High School were not given safety goggles before the [...]
Most four- and five-year-olds who take an English proficiency exam before kindergarten are bound to fail the test, according to a new study. Taking the California English Language Development Test ”almost guarantees” a student will be classified as an English learner, the University of California, Berekely’s Center for Latino Policy Research, study reports. Just 12 percent [...]
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