For nearly six years, Sandy Evans has urged the Fairfax County School Board in Virginia to move the start of high school to a later date. Evans decided to run for the vacant 12-member student council seat and won the election. It…
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs disguised as charitable initiatives are reforming the American education system. Grant support allows IT leaders to change school schedules, choose pedagogical methods and techniques for teaching children. The New York Times has figured out how hidden education reform works. In recent years, the founders ...
In 1991, the children's book The Lovables in the Kingdom of Self-Esteem was published. Written by Diane Lumans and illustrated by Kim Howard, the message is simple yet powerful: you kid reading ...
Charter school supporters won control of the Los Angeles Teachers' Union. This is a watershed moment with profound implications for how students now learn in America's second largest school district. 1. More charter schools in Los Angeles? The union has more private schools ...
The Los Angeles School Council has unanimously approved a number of innovations that will provide students and school staff with greater protection from federal immigration raids. According to the decision, no immigration agent, even if he has a search or arrest warrant, will have ...
New York Mayor Bill De Blasio announced that in order to protect immigrant students, immigration officers will not be allowed into the city's schools without a court-issued warrant. This will be another step for the city to protect illegal immigrants, according to UFT. “Our schools are not only responsible ...
Three schools in New York and New Jersey were evacuated and closed after a series of unrelated threatening calls on Wednesday December 7th. John Witherspoon High School in Princeton was simply closed, students at Village Elementary School in Holmdel were loaded onto buses ...
Chicago Public Schools won't open this fall unless officials allocate funds from the education budget. CPS CEO Forrest Claypool said. “Chicago schools will not be open, and I suspect that will be the case for most schools in the state,”...
Children of immigrants who are in the United States without legal status are not allowed to study in some American schools, according to researchers at the Georgetown University Human Rights Center. It is reported that most of the time students are waiting for a decision on admission, after which they receive from ...
The Philadelphia School Reform Commission plans to vote to build 39 charter schools due to financial problems and poor student achievement. There are already 86 charter schools in the area that offer an alternative to schools under the auspices of the local school district. American Federation ...