With Gov. Bobby Jindal's public education overhaul package getting its first hearings in the Legislature this week, some school districts are canceling classes so that teachers can go rally at the State Capitol.
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3/13/2012
Apple's is reducing the price of the iPad 2 with the release of the new iPad, boosting the company's educational initiatives by making tablets more affordable for schools.
3/13/2012
A 12-year-old Minnesota girl was reduced to tears while school officials and a police officer rummaged through her private Facebook postings after forcing her to surrender her password, an ACLU lawsuit alleges.
3/13/2012
The damaged stone veneer at the entrance of Camden's Lanning Square School at Fetters is enough of a hazard that repairing it is among 76 projects designated a high priority Monday by the state Schools Development Authority.
3/13/2012
In November 2010, the Illinois State Board of Education took virtual control of one of the worst school districts in the state, North Chicago School District 187.
3/13/2012
Pennsylvania’s largest teachers union wants lawmakers to increase public-school funding through charging more fees for gas drilling and by imposing new taxes.
3/13/2012
Recent articles and editorials touched on some of the relationship between school hours and suspension rates and teenagers' biological clocks and the benefits of keeping kids in school. But they omitted any discussion of how high school students should be spending their afternoons.
3/13/2012
From 2006 to 2011, the St. Mary Parish (La.) Public School System posted double-digit gains in fourth grade proficiency levels on the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program test with the use of Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant.
3/13/2012
Coordinator of Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate Program Graig Meyer will describe how this successful program has changed the lives of hundreds of at-risk children and illustrate how SIIS attendees can achieve similar success.
3/13/2012
The Kids In Need Foundation announces the second year of a teacher grants program sponsored by Elmer’s Products Inc. Teachers nationwide can apply to win an Elmer’s Teacher Tool Kit grant that can range from $100 to $500.
3/13/2012
Newton Public Schools recently adopted the innovative learning platform from itslearning, allowing the district to encourage greater collaboration in producing and delivering high-quality, personalized curriculum and learning in a whole new way.
3/12/2012
Gov. Bobby Jindal opened the first legislative session of his second term Monday afternoon, telling a newly elected Legislature that his effort to remake primary and secondary education in Louisiana is a moral issue.
3/12/2012
In the 1840s, Horace Mann, the great champion of public education, insisted that each and every Boston child – not just the wealthy or the talented – should learn how to draw. Today, Boston is renewing this promise by reestablishing high quality arts education for all students as a core part of excellent schools.
3/12/2012
With barely 100 students, this patch of eastern Williamson County makes up a tiny piece of the "crazy-quilt pattern of small school districts" that, according to the Texas Supreme Court, blankets the state.
3/12/2012
Are teachers aware of their students' outside interests? Nearly 92 percent of Northwest (Texas) School District teachers think so. Only 28 percent of students agree, according to a survey both groups took last fall.
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