By Jason | April 11, 2012 at 9:25 am | No comments
New York Times has an article about how certain Texas schools are so cash strapped that they have stopped providing essential services such as bussing students.
HUTTO, Tex. — School buses passed by 16-year-old Aubrey Sandifer as he walked home one recent afternoon in...
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By kcaskins | March 25, 2012 at 12:36 pm | No comments
Officials with the Valley School District in New Kensington are bracing for a legal battle with an atheist group that's threatening a lawsuit if a Ten Commandments monument is not removed from school property.
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By Jason | February 7, 2012 at 3:23 pm | No comments
LOS ANGELES — The entire faculty at Miramonte Elementary School, where two teachers were arrested last week on accusations of child sexual abuse, will be replaced by new teachers this week, the Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent announced Monday...
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By Jason | December 13, 2011 at 10:17 am | No comments
Timesunion.com has an article about the changes in New York's financial aid reform
ALBANY — The state Board of Regents has proposed changing an education aid formula to a model that would send more money to poor districts.
Under a proposal put forward Monday, 73 percent...
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By Jason | September 21, 2011 at 9:33 am | No comments
A newly appointed chancellor charged with turning around Michigan and Detroit's worst-performing schools was himself the head of a district that failed to meet education standards, officials said Tuesday.
Missouri education officials on Tuesday revoked the accreditation of...
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By kcaskins | August 30, 2011 at 9:40 am | No comments
Roberts, 17, was elected in May to serve as the Student Director for the forthcoming year, which means she will sit on the school board and represent the diverse student voices in the district. Roberts won the position in a race ...
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By Jason | August 30, 2011 at 9:32 am | No comments
West Orange families still don't know their teacher , but they did receive supply lists on the last day of school in June.
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Do You Know Who Your Kid's Teacher Will Be? | Barista...
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By Jason | May 25, 2011 at 6:27 am | No comments
They've been conducting McCarthy-esque trials, forcing teacher -librarians to defend both their personal worth and their district-defined credentials.
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By kcaskins | May 18, 2011 at 12:12 pm | No comments
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By Jason | May 18, 2011 at 12:11 pm | No comments
Frost literary resource teacher David Carter has worked in District 54 for 40 years, and was recently honored by the School Board. (Kate Thayer/Tribune). Just after receiving a service award from the District 54 School Board, ...
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