Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 12:13pm
As hearings start this week on a Columbus school-district reform bill, an earlier proposal allowing for a state takeover of the state’s largest district is likely to vanish.
Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 11:35am
Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement plans.
Submitted by Matthew Zalaznick on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 11:19am
Legislation backed by Gov. Bobby Jindal to enforce new accountability standards for early childhood education programs passed Wednesday in the House Education Committee, putting it only two steps away from becoming state law.
Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 4:06pm
Charter schools are operated by many types of organizations with many different orientations. But many tend to espouse a “boot camp” type of ideology, offering long days, lots of homework, intense studying, and tests, tests, tests.
Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 3:58pm
Leaders of the city in the impoverished Delta region — known as the crossroads of the blues where Robert Johnson once lived — hope improved education will help stanch a hemorrhaging population that now stands at 18,000.
Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 3:08pm
Independent hearing officers enlisted to review plans to close 53 Chicago Public Schools at the end of the school year have opposed at least 13 of the proposed closings.
Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 1:17pm
The Louisiana state Senate Education Committee rejected a move to repeal the state's Science Education Act on Wednesday, handing a defeat to opponents who have criticized the law for essentially allowing the teaching of creationism in science class.
Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 2:28pm
Democratic senators from rural areas are seeking a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law to give their constituents a better chance of competing for federal funding, a touchy subject among politicians. A debate over education policy will likely split lawmakers along the same regional lines that divided them during the recent debate over gun control legislation.
Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 04/30/2013 - 2:40pm
New Jersey's poorest school districts cannot design or acquire land for any new schools to be bankrolled by the state, an appeals court ruled today, dealing a setback to advocacy groups pushing for more local control.
