Students eating in Cobb County school cafeterias next year will see healthier meal options, but at a higher cost.
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3/11/2012
3/11/2012
Tens of thousands of students, most of them disabled, are strapped down or physically restrained in school, and disability advocates hope that a new Education Department report detailing the practice of "seclusion and restraint" will spur federal action to end it.
3/11/2012
Chiquita Hall has purchased her first home in the city of Detroit and wants to support her surroundings as much as she can.
3/11/2012
The word "choice" in education is traditionally associated with private schools, home schooling or other alternatives to the public school system, but the Washington County School District is pursuing its own version of choice starting next school year.
3/9/2012
Educators learn about project-based learning by spending four days immersed in their own project creation while supported by a world-class faculty of education pioneers and punctuated by conversations with acclaimed experts.
3/9/2012
The Florida Legislature has finally figured out how to destroy public education — under the guise of "school choice." After all, everybody likes choice, unless it involves abortion, contraception or gay marriage.
3/9/2012
Glastonbury, Conn. teacher Scott Minnick compared the educational system to a tripod. One of the legs, he told the governor Tuesday night, is a "socioeconomic problem that ... teachers cannot fix." Then why, Minnick asked, does the education reform bill in the state legislature focus on teachers?
3/9/2012
It came down to the final day and an unusual closed-door meeting by the entire House of Representatives, but the Legislature approved an education overhaul bill continuing Wyoming’s effort to help better prepare its public school students.
3/9/2012
Several Ridge (New Haven, Conn.) Road School parents asked the Board of Education to restore seven special education-related positions that were cut from the 2012-13 budget.
3/9/2012
The Florida Senate will have an opportunity to vote on Senate Bill 1718, the Parent Empowerment Act.
3/9/2012
Some think this bill puts control of a child‘s education back into parent’s hands, others have said that it takes away parental choice.
3/9/2012
The Oregon Board of Education will continue to take steps toward adopting rules that could ban Native American mascots from schools across the state.
3/9/2012
Racial disparities in school discipline – including suspensions, expulsions and arrests – remain alarmingly high in districts and states across the country.
3/9/2012
In between back-to-back speaking engagments in Texas, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan met with sometime political adversary Gov. Rick Perry to discuss a possible waiver on the No Child Left Behind Act.
3/9/2012
Louisiana State Senator Karen Carter Peterson pre-filed Senate Bill 374 (PDF), to repeal the state’s ill-advised Science Education Act of 2008.
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