For a generation of Newark, N.J. students, every education decision, including choices on curriculum, spending and superintendent, has been made by state officials in Trenton.
Policy & Compliance
12/11/2011
Preparing for her daughter’s graduation in the spring, Tuli Chediak received a blunt message from her daughter’s charter high school: Pay us $600 or your daughter won’t graduate.
12/11/2011
Elementary students in a California school district recite the Pledge of Allegiance in both English and Spanish, a move that is making some teachers unhappy, KGET.com reports.
12/11/2011
As schools across California bemoan increasing class sizes, the Alliance Technology and Math Science High School has boosted class size — on purpose — to an astonishing 48. The students work at computers most of the school day.
12/11/2011
The Orleans Parish School Board may be much diminished since the state took over a majority of the city's public schools six years ago, but the old board still pulls some of the most important strings: the purse strings.
12/11/2011
Three months into a federal grant program designed to improve some of the country’s lowest-performing schools, New York City’s Education Department has instead moved to close two troubled high schools and replace them with new schools.
12/8/2011
Over 500 new public charter schools opened their doors in the 2011-12 school year, an estimated increase of 200,000 students.
12/7/2011
The state of Montana is not going to seek a waiver from parts of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
12/7/2011
There's agreement that too few children in Connecticut have access to quality early education programs, but the Malloy administration and advocates are butting heads on how to get to a near-universal system.
12/7/2011
LANSING – State Board of Education members say they don't want the cap on so-called cyber charter schools lifted until the two existing schools can be studied and there are guarantees the schools follow the same rules as brick and mortar programs.
12/6/2011
Talk about your shows of unity.
12/6/2011
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a Bronx church's case on whether it can hold worship services in New York City public schools.
12/6/2011
Chicago Public Schools have signed a charter school compact agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in an effort to increase funding for charters and improve collaboration between charter and neighborhood schools.
12/6/2011
The former chief executive of Intel wants to essentially blow up everything in public education in Arizona, from how teachers are trained to how they are paid.
12/5/2011
Governor John Kitzhaber says he'll hire an education czar to oversee all education in Oregon.
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