VIDALIA — Even though there was no final exam at the end, Concordia Parish School Board members put on their thinking caps for two informative presentations Thursday night regarding the ad valorem tax and common core standards. Concordia Parish Common Core State Standards specialist Rhonda Wilson presented the board with a basic overview of what [...]
Its one thing for school officials to role-play and lecture to students about bullying. Its another for students to see graphic images of it on the big screen. But students and others will have that chance starting today with the opening of the documentary Bully, which portrays the lives of three bullying victims during the [...]
Spring means prom season, and this year some schools in the Metroplex are creating restrictions as to what students can wear. At Sunnyvale High School east of Dallas, the administration there has tried to be proactive when it comes to prom night. For weeks, excitement has been building at Sunnyvale High School for this years [...]
Chicago schools CEO: I pushed to roll back longer school day BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter rrossi@suntimes.com April 12, 2012 11:35AM
Ohio public schools will likely get a year?s reprieve from a tougher academic rating system on annual report cards, a state education official said Thursday. Instead of grading schools from A to F on school report cards this August, as planned, Ohio may delay the new grades by a year, said Stan Heffner, state superintendent [...]
A primary school that employed a sex offender wants its name kept secret to avoid re-traumatising its pupils. Te Rito Henry Miki, 40, worked at six schools despite a supervision order that prevented him from coming into contact with those under age of 16. He was discovered by a parent at one of the schools [...]
Half of the free schools opening this autumn are still negotiating over premises, an education minister has admitted. Despite many having made provisional offers of places for September, only about 35 of the 70 schools have written confirmation from the land or lease owner that they can use their proposed building, and a few have [...]
When state investigators demanded last year to see personal tax returns filed by Eddie Calderon-Melendez, the founder and chief executive of a troubled network of charter high schools in Brooklyn, he produced them. One problem, according to the investigators, was that those state tax returns were falsified and had never been filed. Connect with NYTMetro [...]
Many people know the old adage, often attributed to Churchill, that the two things one best not see being made are law and sausage. Indeed when it comes to education policy there is no better truism. Twenty-one years ago when the states first began enacting charter school laws, the intention — and the hope — [...]
Schools Budget Talk of 100 Years Ago A look back at the striking similarities and differences in Middletown schools budget negotiations a century ago compared to now.
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