Nashville school officials have rejected a proposal to open a charter school in a middle-class part of the city, highlighting a broader national battle over efforts by operators of such publicly financed, privately run schools to expand into more affluent areas.
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6/27/2012
When parents send children to school or camp, they may worry about many things, from bullies to bus accidents. But unauthorized sunscreen use?
6/27/2012
The number of regional school superintendents in Illinois will drop from 44 to 35 by 2015 under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Pat Quinn.
6/27/2012
Prince George’s County school officials are scrambling to ensure there isn’t a dearth of leadership in the wake of the announcement by Prince George’s County schools superintendent William R. Hite that he is being considered for the top education position in Philadelphia.
6/27/2012
A coalition of Texas business leaders announced Wednesday that it would oppose future hikes in education funding if Texas officials weaken standardized testing standards, a step the group contends would hurt the state's efforts to hold public schools more accountable.
6/27/2012
The United States should aim to fix its income inequality problem by improving education for disadvantaged students and raising taxes on the wealthy, according to a new report from a consortium of developed countries.
6/27/2012
Follett Software Company announced a first round of partnerships with leading providers to sell reliable and relevant third-party digital content.
6/27/2012
PEAK12, which stands for Personalize, Engage, and Achieve with K12, is an intelligent management center for online learning that enables schools and districts to manage and personalize their online learning program solutions from one place.
6/26/2012
Each year we have readers nominate the products that have made a positive difference in their school districts, including hardware, software, books and materials, Web sites and facilities products. Now is that time!
6/26/2012
Educational technology directors at the state level continue to provide guidance and research related to the effective uses of technology in designing, identifying, and implementing innovations in teaching and learning. This report provides data and information on three different types of programs.
6/26/2012
The national education reform group StudentsFirst, which has set out to transform U.S. schools by introducing more free-market principles to public education, raised $7.6 million in its first nine months - and spent nearly a quarter of it on advertising - according to partial tax records released on Monday.
6/26/2012
Entertainment Properties Trust (EPR) is learning a tough lesson from its ambitious investment in charter schools.
6/26/2012
A Pennsylvania state lawmaker whose proposal for a voucher-like tax credit that is designed to help students leave the state's worst schools said Monday that those schools would benefit, too.
6/26/2012
Tuesday either is or isn’t the next-to-last day of school for public school students, depending on which version of the end-of-year schedule their school has adopted.
6/26/2012
School staff and students who see a child bullying another would be required to report it, and accusations of such behavior would have to be investigated within 10 school days under a proposed Chicago Public School Student Code of Conduct that includes a crackdown on the hot-button problem.
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