SEATTLE — Faking her pregnancy was the high school project that keeps paying off for one Washington state teenager. Gaby Rodriguez of Toppenish was 17 last April when she told a high school assembly that she’d faked her baby bump for the past six months to see how the community would react. The project earned [...]
A Texas student is upset with school officials, saying administrators went too far when they used a permanent marker to fill in lines shaved into his hair. Marshall Junior High student Sheldon Williams has two areas on his head where the shave is closer than the rest of his hair. School officials said it was [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A 16-year-old atheist said Thursday she is confident the law is on her side in her fight over a prayer mural that she wants removed from the auditorium of her high school. Jessica Ahlquist said her side is “very strong” after attorneys for her and the city of Cranston made their case [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Opponents of a California law requiring that the contributions of gays and lesbians be taught in public schools failed Wednesday in their attempt to qualify a ballot referendum to repeal the law. The groups wanted to force a vote on Senate Bill 48, the nation’s first law requiring that public schools include [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Teachers in the San Francisco Bay area picketed Thursday outside an education conference that features News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch as a keynote speaker, saying they believe he and other business leaders want to profit from reforms discussed at the summit. More than 100 demonstrators marched outside the Palace Hotel, which was [...]
NEW YORK — It’s been more than a decade since Michael Rebell filed a lawsuit that led to increased school funding in New York. Now, the lawyer and Columbia University Teachers College professor is on to his next crusade: closing the achievement gap by providing services both inside and outside schools. The achievement gap refers [...]
WASHINGTON — A majority of states intend to take President Barack Obama up on his offer to let them get around unpopular requirements in the “No Child Left Behind” education law, the Education Department said Thursday. Obama said last month he was frustrated that Congress didn’t act to change the law that he has said [...]
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett unveiled a four-part education reform proposal Tuesday morning that has since received mixed reactions. At a news conference Tuesday at the Lincoln Charter School in York, Pa., Corbett said acting on an education reform agenda is a state priority. The announced agenda focuses on improvements to the charter school system, offering [...]
ATLANTA — A Georgia state commission decided Thursday to revoke the teaching licenses of eight teachers and three school administrators in the Atlanta Public Schools, imposing the first sanctions in one of the nation’s largest school cheating scandals. The Georgia Professional Standards Commission voted on the first batch of cases from a state probe released [...]
An ambitious experiment created by Harvard economist Roland Fryer to export and scale the practices of high-performing charter school chains to public schools in Houston appears to be bearing early fruit, according to Fryer’s findings in a recent report. But the results are preliminary, and the method has its critics. The three-year project, called Apollo [...]
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