As school districts are facing massive budget cuts across the country, school programs, teachers and students are taking the hit. According to a report released today by the Campaign for America’s Future, evidence suggests that cuts to education funding are leading to cutbacks from early childhood education programs, increases in class sizes and termination of [...]
A Florida school board turned town a nearly $55,000 grant with Boy Scouts affiliation for the first time in 11 years. A majority of board members agreed that Boy Scouts discriminates against LGBT people, WTSP reports. Pinellas County School Board member Linda Lerner has been fighting against accepting the money for 10 years, and yesterday [...]
The same week a study revealed record high vacancies in U.S. industries for skilled technical workers, the Chicago Public School system has announced plans to open as many as five experimental, six-year schools that will graduate students with specialized training and even an associate’s degree. Funded by a $400,000 “challenge grant” from IBM, the pilot [...]
About a dozen Atlanta educators implicated in the district’s cheating scandal find out Thursday whether Georgia education officials will strip them of their teaching certificates, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Thursday’s decisions will mark the first round of punishments being handed to any of the 180 APS employees implicated in one of the largest scandals [...]
NEW YORK — Big Bird’s problems getting into “The Good Birds Club” are at the center of an anti-bullying effort being launched by “Sesame Street.” The venerable PBS show will air a special episode Monday that aims to teach preschoolers how to recognize and combat bullying. The show said Thursday that studies say bullying behavior [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Layoffs hit nearly 3 percent of teachers in New York this year, according to a survey released Tuesday by the state Council of School Superintendents. That translates into more than 7,000 teacher layoffs, said Richard C. Iannuzzi, president of the New York State United Teachers union. Another 4,000 unfilled positions were [...]
LOS ANGELES — A 19-month civil rights investigation of the Los Angeles Unified School District found that the district failed to provide an equal education to English-learners and black students, resulting in wide academic disparities, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. The district, the nation’s second-largest, agreed to remedy the disparities through a variety [...]
AUSTIN, Texas — A coalition of more than 150 Texas school districts said Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit against the state over a school funding system it says is unfair, inefficient and unconstitutional. The coalition represents more than one in 10 Texas districts. It accuses lawmakers of turning a blind eye to the state’s [...]
Did you know that up until last month you could be kicked out of the army for being gay, and in a lot of states people can still get fired for being gay? So, what about high school? Can you be kicked out if you come out? It’s a scary thought, but some recent stories [...]
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Viki Knox, union township new jersey teacher, investigated for alleged anti-gay facebook posts
A New Jersey teacher is under investigation for anti-gay remarks she allegedly posted on her Facebook that criticize a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history month display at her school. Viki Knox, a 49-year-old special education teacher at Union High School and adviser to the school’s student prayer group, reportedly posted on Facebook that homosexuality [...]