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Seattle schools won't charge PTAs a fee on donations
A few days after Seattle Public Schools told parent groups they would be charged for giving money to schools, district officials said Monday that won't happen after all.
Schools failing to guide young women into careers in science, math and technology
3.23.10 - Stephanie Rosenthal's elementary school teachers in Potomac, Md., gave her plenty of encouragement to pursue her interests in math and science but when she developed a passion for robotics early in high school, she had to chart her own course....Parents say special-ed kids falling victim in charter battle for space
Special education students are falling victim to the fierce battle to find space for charter schools inside city school buildings, parents and advocates say....Green Dot to close high school
Green Dot Public Schools, one of California's largest and most respected charter management organizations, plans to close one of its 16 Los Angeles campuses, officials announced Monday. ...
Big-City Test Scores on Rise, Report Says
3.23.10 - A new report from a Washington-based advocacy group for urban districts sees progress among big-city students on state tests and NAEP. ...Irregularities emerge in Dallas ISD textbook selection process
Dallas school officials set out in the fall to buy more than 500,000 new reading and literature textbooks, using a selection process that is supposed to be competitive and fair for publishers vying for the lucrative textbook deals. ...Fees considered for middle school sports
Athletics director Vicki Hamilton and some school board members are seeking ways to save a scaled-back middle school sports program without forcing cuts in other Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools programs....
Miss. officials defend canceling prom after same-sex date request
ABERDEEN, Miss. — School officials who canceled a prom after a lesbian student asked to bring her girlfriend told a federal judge yesterday that there were issues with the event even before that. ...Archdiocese of Baltimore plans bilingual school
The Archdiocese of Baltimore will open its first bilingual immersion program at a Highlandtown elementary school this fall, officials announced Monday. ...Kids get the message on veggies, exercise
Milton Delgado oozed enthusiasm into a hand-held microphone Monday as more than 400 children at Lancashire Elementary School in Brandywine Hundred sat on the floor of the multipurpose room in front of him...
Supremes: Music can be banned if it even sounds religious
A public school has banned performance of an instrumental version of "Ave Maria" at its high-school graduation simply because the superintendent fears it might sound religious – and the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the ban to stand by refusing to hear the case....
Cowardice on vouchers and the plantation values of liberals!
PARENTS LOVE IT. Students benefit from it. But neither the White House nor most Democrats in Congress had the backbone to support a unique program that provides vouchers to low-income D.C. families in search of better educational opportunities....
Willingham on Obama's vision for education
Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham reviews President Obama's new vision for rewriting No Child Left Behind. He says that interventions proposed for the lowest-achieving schools will result no in a race to the top, but a scramble from the bottom. ...
Fixing No Child Left Behind
3.23.10 - The Obama Administration wants to revise the No Child Left Behind education law, which is understandable because the law has flaws. But it's too bad many of the proposed fixes would weaken the statute ...
Caleb, embattled HISD principal, looks to retire Aug. 31
Mable Caleb, the embattled Houston ISD principal accused of overseeing cheating on state tests, financial fraud and stealing equipment, submitted on Monday her notice to retire effective Aug. 31....Teacher fired from Houston private school for egging on assault
A teacher has been fired from a Houston private school for encouraging her students to punch a 5-year-old classmate during a field trip, the school's director said. ...
Teacher's ‘God’ banners at heart of legal dispute
Images of majestic mountains, cascading waterfalls and pastoral fields fill the walls of Brad Johnson’s math class at Westview High School in Rancho Peñasquitos. ...
Districts need short-term power to raise taxes without voters' approval, Minnesota Rep. Greiling says
School administrators are staring down a triple-barreled threat. ...
