The District’s traditional public school system is sending principals out to knock on doors in a campaign to sell itself to city families, an aggressive move to boost enrollment and maintain market share after years of ceding ground to charter…
Charter schools are seeking to change the narrative that they’re part of the problem when it comes to segregation in public schools. Two New York City charter school organizations, Brooklyn Prospect and Success Academy schools, and Brooklyn’s Community Roots Charter…
Florida's 15-year-old test officially gave way Monday to the Florida Standards Assessment, with the launch of a new website that gives a first look at the state's new accountability exams. "We wanted parents and students and teachers to see the…
Earlier this year, Washington state became the first to lose its No Child Left Behind Act waiver, which had allowed the Evergreen State to get out of many of the mandates of the outdated law. The loss of the waiver…
New York's top court struck down a law that made cyberbullying a crime, in what had been viewed as a test case of recent state and local statutes that target online speech. The New York Court of Appeals, in a…
Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina defended the hiring of uncertified teachers recruited by subway ads to teach in the city’s pre-kindergarten program.
School counselors have one of "the most underappreciated jobs" in the country but are key to in the White House's goal to have more students pursue education after high school, first lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday in Orlando. But counselors,…
The District has made progress toward complying with federal special-education law, the U.S. Education Department reported last week, but the city continues to be one of a handful of jurisdictions that lag far behind expectations for serving children with disabilities.
The school vending machine is no longer an easy place to satisfy a snack craving. Under new national nutritional guidelines that kick in Tuesday, schools that are part of the national school lunch program can no longer sell treats such…
Robert Garrett was walking fast. The social studies teacher had traveled from Birmingham to hear two visionaries talk, and their techno-education session on the far side of the sprawling Georgia World Congress Center was about to begin.
When the Obama administration in 2012 announced long-awaited changes to require more fruits and vegetables and less sugar and salt in government-subsidized school meals, no group celebrated more than the School Nutrition Association.
Two national principals' group said they are generally pleased with the changes that may affect school leaders' training and preparation included in the Senate Democrats' draft reauthorization bill for the Higher Education Act, but, at the same time, they are…
Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed a bill that backers say will offer special education students a vital new route to a high school diploma. “It is a good thing that we are providing this pathway, and it is not a…
A hearing examiner affirmed the suspension of an Anne Arundel County boy who chewed his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun in what many have come to know as “the Pop-Tart case.” In a 30-page opinion, hearing examiner…
The state comptroller's office released its first public school construction survey today, which measured costs for Texas schools that opened between 2007 and 2013. Data shows that Dallas-Fort Worth is the Texas metro area with the most expensive schools, second…
The Indiana Department of Education submitted its plans today to correct a series of shortcomings that jeopardize the state's waiver from strict federal education requirements. If federal officials pull Indiana's waiver, school operators would lose flexibility in how to spend…
