The Oakland school board rejected the charter school petitions submitted by the faculties of ASCEND and Learning Without Limits, public elementary schools in the Fruitvale area that want to secede from the school district.
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1/29/2012
The curved glass and metal front of the Alamance-Burlington School System Career and Technical Education Center isn’t quite futuristic enough to be described as Jetsons-style architecture.
1/29/2012
Asking families to buy their own educational technology runs counter to the normal way of doing things in public education.
1/29/2012
Hitting the books has become as hard as the current economic situation.
1/29/2012
Thousands of parents waited in line Saturday morning for an education fair aimed at Hispanic families hosted by the Austin Independent School District.
1/29/2012
The Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School is almost always among the nations highest-ranking schools.
1/29/2012
Representatives of environmental crusader Erin Brockovich and an accompanying group of reporters were ordered off the grounds of LeRoy Junior-Senior High School on Saturday in an episode connected to a cluster of students there with unusual neurological symptoms.
1/27/2012
DYMO/Mimio released its most innovative educational software yet– MimioStudio 9 software featuring the ground-breaking MimioStudio ActivityWizard at the 2012 FETC tradeshow.
1/27/2012
Marzano Research Laboratory (MRL), RMC Research Corporation and Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, Inc. are pleased to announce that they have received a contract from the Department of Education to form the Regional Educational Laboratory – Central at MRL.
1/27/2012
Employees of the Burleson Independent School District, a small urban district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have improved teacher practice with School Improvement Network's PD 360.
1/26/2012
This week is National School Choice Week -- a well-orchestrated PR event to celebrate "school choice."
1/26/2012
Superintendent of Danbury (Wash.) Schools Sal Pascarella has proposed a "work in progress" spending plan for 2012-13 of $122.1 million, which is $7.2 million or 6.33 percent more than current spending.
1/26/2012
After years of trying, Connecticut representatives of teacher unions, superintendents and school boards Wednesday reached consensus on the controversial issue of teacher evaluations.
1/26/2012
Utah education leaders plan to ask the feds to waive many No Child Left Behind requirements for the state in exchange for new school achievement programs and rules regarding teacher evaluations, according to a proposal the State Office of Education released Thursday.
1/26/2012
State Board of Education members pressed the Texas education commissioner on Thursday about whether an abundance of high-stakes standardized testing is warping classroom teaching to ensure students spend more time preparing for the exams then actual learning.
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