Teachers unions are girding for a tough fight to defend tenure laws against a coming blitz of lawsuits — and an all-out public relations campaign led by former aides to President Barack Obama. The Incite Agency, founded by former White…
Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a series of changes on Tuesday to make it easier for special-needs students in New York to receive private schooling at public expense, a practice that has led to frequent litigation as the city has…
The Minneapolis School District is moving toward a shift in how it divvies up at least $200 million of its budget, giving even more to struggling schools and less to those better off. The effort to create equity among students…
feeling the collective shock of Columbine, Virginia Tech and the Sandy Hook massacres, not to mention the profusion of other school shootings that did not receive the media attention and national empathy they deserved, has continued to fuel my desire…
As part of ongoing efforts to find alternatives to harsh discipline, CPS plans to stop suspending students for using cellphones in class, prohibit almost all suspensions in prekindergarten through second grade and make out-of-school suspensions for older students a "last…
For the past four years, the U.S. Department of Education has been able to withhold—or threaten to withhold—a piece of a winning state's Race to the Top grant if officials weren't following through on their promises. This happened in Hawaii, which eventually…
Groups representing teachers, schools and libraries are frustrated with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) new plan to boost their Wi-Fi access. While the FCC is looking to put Wi-Fi in schools and libraries, the agency should also be working to…
Resentful that a massive wave of common-standards adoptions four years ago bypassed their chambers and subjected them to intense political heat, state lawmakers are taking steps to claim some of the authority that state boards of education have traditionally held…
There were hiccups. Monday was the first day of training for dozens of teachers at Gulf Beaches and Kings Highway elementaries, and though the new schools have been vaunted as technology magnets, the wireless went down at Kings Highway, where…
The political food fight over rolling back school nutrition standards is at an impasse for the moment. But advocates on both sides aren't backing off, and there are new players in the game. When first lady Michelle Obama spoke up…
The SAT scores for Dallas ISD high-school students fell this year, with only 13.3 percent of them receiving a grade considered to be college ready, according to data obtained by The Dallas Morning News Of the 7,663 DISD students who…
If your child's next visit to the pediatrician includes a clear emphasis on reading, don't be surprised. On Tuesday, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued its first-ever policy statement focused on literacy promotion, calling for pediatricians to advise all parents…
In a move that seemed almost unthinkable before a change in leadership at the House of Representatives, Rhode Island lawmakers have suspended the use of standardized test scores as part of a high school diploma until at least 2017. Lawmakers…
n the stuffy, little gymnasium at Richard Kluge Elementary in Milwaukee, 16 boys and girls are stretching, jumping and marching to music. Two years ago, the school had no gym, art or music classes due to budget cuts. But now,…
From a hilltop west of this Ozarks town, trees stretch to the end of the world and only the low rumble of far-off thunder breaks the morning quiet. That is about to change. “On the command of ‘gun’!” the chief…
One school bought useless wetlands. Others overpaid — by a lot — for their school property. And another gave its administrator a severance worth more than a half million dollars. The Free Press used the Freedom of Information Act to…
