Several groups that are against charter schools urged the Birmingham Board of Education to pass a resolution opposing legislation that would allow the independent schools to operate in Alabama.
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2/15/2012
2/15/2012
The Sweet Home (Ore.) School District is looking at a big schedule change, they're switching to a four-day school week.
2/14/2012
After nine suicides, a federal lawsuit, and the glare of the media spotlight, Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin school district has at last rid itself of the policy that helped create a virulently anti-gay environment in its schools.
2/1/2012
With iPads making their way into kindergarten classrooms from Maine to Tennessee, it may seem like a given that American education is embracing technology for the rising generation.
1/30/2012
Two bills in the Florida legislature would give parents overarching power to demand sweeping changes at low-performing schools.
1/29/2012
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.
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.
1/26/2012
Pearson announced the launch of PowerSchool for Parents and PowerSchool for Students, two new free apps for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
1/24/2012
"We need your help." That is the Clark County School District's stance. The district launched the Watch Us Grow campaign this month in conjunction with Superintendent Dwight Jones' State of the District address Jan. 5 at Chaparral High School.
1/17/2012
There’s an interesting controversy going on in the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, a middle-class school district in Western Wayne County. It has to do with banning books.
1/11/2012
Missouri could be the next battleground in a nationwide fight over tougher immigration laws.
1/11/2012
Gov. Jerry Brown hopes to convince Californians to vote for tax hike to support schools.
1/10/2012
Young elementary school students should use the proper names for body parts and, by the end of fifth grade, know that sexual orientation is "the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender," according to new sexual education guidelines released by a coalition of health and education groups.
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