Submitted by Courtney Williams on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 2:33pm
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says his proposed education overhaul will address Connecticut's fluctuating four-year graduation rate by improving the state's low-performing schools.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 2:30pm
South Carolina school systems are fearful they are about to be handed a bill for tens of millions of dollars by the state legislature.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 2:06pm
As educators, policy makers, and other leaders gathered in Washington on Monday for the Building a Grad Nation Summit, it’s no surprise that one of the first people they heard from was AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 2:02pm
L.A. school officials have a chance to apply directly to the government for education grants. They shouldn't squander it.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 9:52am
The last straw for 17-year-old Alton Burke was a note left on his door. The high school dropout picked up the phone and re-enrolled at South Hagerstown High.
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Submitted by Marion Herbert on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 11:04pm
It's been a confusing few months for Calif. families with children who are turning 5 in November -- kids who, until this year, would have been eligible to start kindergarten.
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Submitted by Marion Herbert on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 10:58pm
Rialto (Calif.) Unified School District has responded to a request seeking the number of complaints of teacher misconduct, becoming the second of 19 school districts to provide such a list for a special project by the Daily Bulletin, The Sun and the Redlands Daily Facts.
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Submitted by Marion Herbert on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 10:54pm
The N.C. Pre-K program has become the focus of a statewide debate over early education, but it represents only a portion of state taxpayer-funded pre-kindergarten classes.
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Submitted by Marion Herbert on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 10:51pm
The Cupcake Wars came to Public School 295 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in October.
The Parent-Teacher Association’s decision to raise the price of a cupcake at its monthly bake sale — to $1, from 50 cents — was supposed to be a simple way to raise extra money in the face of city budget cuts.
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Submitted by Marion Herbert on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 10:46pm
Among the nation’s young people, those in the South suffer the worst rates of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, according to a new study that finds little resistance among parents in the region for age-appropriate sex education in schools.
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