More than 1,200 families, teachers and lawyers sent a petition on Monday calling on the state's Department of Education to permanently remove the Regents exams as a graduation requirement – a policy signatories say can be discriminatory.
After taking the helm at Allenbrook Elementary School in 2020, she quickly turned the school from a below F level to nearly a B, making it the number one growing elementary school in the district.
According to the department's Office for Civil Rights, Fairfax County Public Schools cut essential services for its 25,000 disabled students and told teachers they did not have to meet educational standards while schools were closed.
A group of families sued the state in 2020, alleging that their children had been discriminated against because they were denied public money to attend religious schools.
Based on criteria such as hands-on program training, privacy and ethics, and government and national security, Carnegie Mellon University, DePaul University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University rank among the top three.
Akron Public Schools' educators union says the schools are "not safe" after a student stabbing of another student, a fight and a bomb threat at three separate schools in the district this week.
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