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New Jersey State Test Scores Released: Majority of High School Students Do Not Pass Math at Any Level
Results for 2018 PARCC standardized test scores followed a trend of improvement for the past several years even while the…
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Texas Superintendent Asks Board to Declare ‘Financial Exigency’ after Revenues Were Overstated by $5.3M
Crosby ISD's board faces a series of difficult decisions in the coming months as the district scrambles to remain financially…
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Colorado District Votes to Allow Teachers to Carry Concealed Handguns at Schools
The five-member Peyton 23-JT Board of Education voted unanimously last week to designate teachers and other volunteer staff as security…
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Portland District Receives $11M Grant to Help Send Low-Income Students to College
Portland Public Schools has won a grant worth $11 million over seven years to help students in grades six through…
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ROMERO: Important Lessons from a Local Charter School
Policymakers are bemoaning the fact that California isn’t doing well and looking for suggestions for underperforming schools.
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Illinois State Board Recommends an Easier Path to Teaching for Qualified Professionals
The recommendations stem from a yearlong study involving focus groups, data analysis and research review. The findings were released last…
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Arizona District Buys Five-Acre Lot to Build Tiny Homes for Teachers
The district will charge $125 a month for the land and utilities, but the teachers will own the homes, paying…
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After 30 Years of State Oversight, Jersey City District Takes Final Step to Return to Local Control
At Thursday's school board meeting, Schools Superintendent Marcia V. Lyles and Board of Education President Sudhan Thomas signed the final…
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New Mexico Schools to Get $16 Million Worth of Security Upgrades
Forty-seven school districts applied for security improvements at 288 campuses.
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NYC Teacher Fired Following Investigation into Slavery Lesson, Attorney Says Union Will Pursue an Appeal
The city has officially fired a white social studies teacher for her ill-conceived lesson on slavery to Bronx students.
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New Georgia Law Requires Schools to Educate Kindergartners about Sexual Abuse and Prevention
In a growing number of metro Atlanta classrooms, as the world outside grapples with high-profile sexual assault allegations and the…
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School Closures and Consolidations a Familiar Story in Rural Corners of the Country
In many cases, rural schools are burdened by afflictions that also strain urban education systems: declining enrollment, teacher shortages, decaying…
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IN Teachers Union Spends Big on Indianapolis School Board Candidates Who Oppose Innovation Schools
It’s not unusual for teachers unions to spend on school board elections. In 2016, the union contributed $15,000 to an…
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CO Teacher Placed on Leave after Allegations about Him Were Left on Anonymous Reporting System
A Milliken Middle School teacher has been placed on administrative leave for unprofessional conduct following multiple reports made to the…
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Video Shows South Carolina Teacher Forcibly Removing, Kicking Student Out of Classroom
"I can't blame anybody. I can't blame the teacher. And I really don't know what's going on with the student,"…
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Candidates Try to Use the Closing of Ohio’s Largest Online Charter School to Knock Down Opponents
Democrats are trying to pin the ECOT scandal on Republican candidates for governor, attorney general, auditor and the legislature.
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A Four-Day School Week Becomes the Norm for Many Colorado Students
Pueblo City Schools District 60 became one of the latest Colorado school districts to adopt a four-day school week for…
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Tennessee Sides with Memphis and Nashville Boards in Rejecting Four New Charter Schools
Voting with recommendations from its staff, the State Board unanimously denied the appeals based on shortcomings in the groups’ plans…
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Analysis: Where Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Candidates Stand on Education Funding
Wolf is casting himself as the "education governor," and Republican nominee Scott Wagner is using the issue as a campaign…
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Former Newark Councilman Ron Rice Returns to Newark to Advocate for Charter Schools
Rice was a councilman under Cory Booker’s administration and now lives in the Washington D.C. area working as a senior…
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Ohio Lawmakers Consider Ed Funding Revamp after Schools in Low-Income Areas Perform Poorly
As Ohio’s latest report card scores yet again show a strong correlation between poverty and low achievement, state lawmakers are…
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Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank Tackles Education at Two-Day Conference This Week
Maximizing employment is part of the Federal Reserve's mandate. And there's a correlation between workforce education levels, employment and economic…
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Colorado Parents Demand Answers after Video Surfaces Showing Teacher Taping Boy to Chair
Prairie Heights Middle School sent an email to parents Friday saying a teacher was placed on administrative leave after police…
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KELLY: Why the DOJ Should Investigate Chicago Public Schools’ Massive Sex Abuse Scandal
The 520 cases of child rape and sex abuse in the Chicago Public Schools since 2008 should move President Trump…
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SMITH: The Need for Charter Schools
For 133,000 children across Pennsylvania, charter schools do more than provide an education. Charter schools provide an alternative for kids…
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