Calling for renewed community involvement in public education, San Diego school board President Richard Barrera delivered a State of the District address last night that asked residents to rally around local school reforms and fight to reclaim funding that has been gutted by the state.
The new Wake County school board majority's plan to abandon the use of socioeconomic diversity will be fought every step of the way by groups that vow to block efforts to implement neighborhood schools. ...
First, the two young boys' lives were turned upside down when their mother suffered a stroke and fell into a coma ...
A European bank that lent money to five Wisconsin school districts that made risky investments has seized $5.6 million from district-controlled trusts to try to compel district officials to repay the debt ...
No public entity has been affected more by Southern Nevada’s explosive growth than the Clark County School District, which used soaring enrollment to leverage a $3.5 billion capital campaign to build more than 100 campuses, while adding dozens of programs and thousands of employees....
In a groundbreaking effort to give educators and students free access to standards-aligned digital media content, Pennsylvania has announced the launch of its Digital Learning Library (DLL), which aims to bring learning into the 21st century though interactive... ...
Should the legislature be allowed to raise taxes without a vote of the people if the money goes to help education? A coalition of education advocates and Democratic lawmakers thinks so. ...
3.25.10 After hours of public testimony and more than 100 amendments offered to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for social studies, the State Board of Education last week gave preliminary approval to the curriculum standards that will be used in Texas public schools...
School systems all over Illinois are in deep financial trouble. On Wednesday, the state Board of Education identified which ones are hurting the most....
School committee members voted through a sweeping package of cuts and... ...
Senators cleared the path Wednesday for a final vote on legislation to bolster the safety and...
James E. Helmreich's March 21 letter against "new national school standards" rests on multiple false assumptions -- starting with the premise that Washington is driving this historic initiative. The creation...
The National Student Clearinghouse began to build its database of more than 93 million students in more than 3,300 colleges and universities to verify enrollment of students for loan companies. Now it is focused on informing high schools how their graduates are doing. ...
Reading achievement in D.C. public schools has climbed in the fourth grade in recent years, the federal government reported Wednesday, while progress nationwide has stalled despite huge instructional efforts launched under the No Child Left Behind law...
The charter school movement is succeeding because it liberates teachers and principals from rules and regulations and holds them accountable for results...
The Texas Education Agency can keep secret its application for a competitive federal grant that could have netted public schools as much as $800 million, according to a ruling from the state attorney general's office. ...
The nation’s school children made little or no progress in reading proficiency in recent years, according to the largest nationwide reading test. Why math scores have improved faster is much-debated....
SEATTLE -- The mother of a Ballard High School student is fuming after the health center on campus helped facilitate her daughter's abortion during school hours....
3.25.10 - It’s easy to track your preschooler’s growth by measuring his or her height with a yardstick. But how can you measure your child’s development in other areas, such as beginning reading? Do you know if he or she is learning and mastering age-appropriate early reading skills? ...
3.24.10 - As our readers know, I have been generally supportive of the Obama education agenda. But, in my view, one set of decisions in the Blueprint threatens to blot out all the good that may come from the many other worthy initiatives. Further, I fear these decisions could stall or stop altogether the progress we've made in narrowing the achievement gap since the late 90s...