Julia Steiny: Finally, R.I. gets serious about consolidated school busing
9.12.10 - Little Rhode Island has roughly 145,000 public school children and 36 distinct school districts, using 36 unrelated bus systems. Picture half-empty yellow buses crisscrossing the state to carry the kids who go to school out of their home districts, to private, charter or special-needs schools. It's nuts.
Teachers on front lines offer ideas to fix troubled schools
9.12.10 - Once upon a time, "Room 222," a television show about a troubled high school, attracted a national audience. The veteran teacher was handsome. The beginning teacher was perky. The principal was gruff. The theme song had a flute. ...
VIPs drop in on dropouts, and invite them to school
9.12.10 - More than 1,000 Houston dropouts woke up Saturday morning to an unexpected knock on their door from some of the city's top dignitaries. ...
Barack Obama's speech to schoolkids again stirs debate
9.12.10 - President Barack Obama will give his second back-to-school speech on Tuesday, streamed live to schoolchildren in Arizona and across the country. ...
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