Connecticut is the 14th-most segregated state in the U.S. in terms of public-school education. … At the school where the vote was being held, there were activists who were congregating to ensure that people had voted for Obama. …
Louisiana students were set to take the PARCC test starting this upcoming school year, but educators have been in limbo since Jindal … can’t be crossed and it clearly bars the federal government from ‘directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school…
Meanwhile parents, fed up with sending their children to dangerous, falling apart schools, abandoned Detroit’s public school system … The never-ending chaos of DPS is a prime example of why school choice is necessary. … It comes as no surprise that proponents of public school are fighting hard against charter schools in Michigan.…
better than median living and you are willing to sacrifice until you scrape by at the median, you can send two of your children to school … In so doing, you also give up the bus service and sacrifice a good 7 hours per school week driving your children around to those to … This is why a voucher-driven school choice program is so important.…
rationale of one’s beliefs, and hurling insults that shift the tenor of the debate into a machismo register better suited for high school … Referring to his early days at a boarding school in Salisbury, he recalled how one of the (unnamed) masters “pulled me on his knee … He said other children in his school peer group had been molested by the same teacher but concluded: “I don’t think he did any of us…
A U.N. school in Gaza was recently hit by some Israeli shells. … An Associated Press release reports:
The White House condemned the shelling Wednesday of a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip that was … Israeli’s military said it fired back after soldiers were targeted by mortar rounds launched from the vicinity of the school.…
killed and the second wounded and left to bleed out on the pavement justifies combat fatigues, MRAPs and the Dallas Independent School … of SWAT teams and if you have something you’ve really gotta use it:
Peter Kraska, a professor at Eastern Kentucky University’s School…
Across the country, arbitrarily drawn school district lines radically distort real estate markets. … Anyone who has shopped for a house in the United States knows one sad truth: Better school districts command a steep premium. … based on school district would be greatly lessened.…
Brown, who worked his way through a bleak high school education in Ferguson, MO, would be in a college classroom. … He defied the odds of many young black men, graduated from high school, and would have started college last week had he been alive. … In Dallas, TX, the independent school district has a SWAT team.…
I was in Grad School at UCLA getting vastly over-credentialed for the job market and educated far beyond my limited frontiers of cognitive … They will send their wonderful children back to a school system that rates 2 on a scale of 1 to 10 according to GreatSchools.org.…
In Macon, Georgia, a gay teacher at a Catholic private school decided to marry his partner. … Once the teacher decided to marry his partner, the school dismissed him for corrupting the Catholic Church’s sacrament. … But now the teacher has filed a discrimination complaint against the school.…
