Boston Public School Students Walkout to Protest Cuts – Again
(Photo: WBUR) Earlier this week, another protest by Boston students took place to spotlight the school budget cuts being ordered by the City Council. The second such demonstration in the last few months has shown that Boston students feel compelled to speak their minds. “I think that the first priority of the entire world should be […]
Report Finds School Choice Benefits Public Schools, Too
(Image: Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons) The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to researching and promoting school choice for children, has released a new report touting the benefits of school choice programs on the development of public schools. Titled “Pursuing Innovation: How Can Educational Choice Transform K-12 Education in the […]
£9bn spent on pro-EU leaflets ‘ABUSE of public money’ that will make people ‘vote leave’
FURIOUS MPs last night accused the Government of squandering taxpayers’ cash and breaching pledges to play fair in the European Union referendum campaign by producing a pro-EU leaflet to send every household in the UK. Daily Express :: News Feed
500 Kids Mistakenly Accepted to Top Chicago Public School
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) An “unidentified internal error” in enrolling transfer students in Chicago has ended with Chicago Public Schools telling hundreds of families that their children had been accepted for a seat in the exceptional North Side school this week when, in fact, they had not. LaSalle Elementary magnet school campus, located in the Old […]
Santander cash machine ALERT: Police warn public NOT to use cashpoints over security risk
POLICE have issued a serious warning to members of the public not to use Santander cash machines after hundreds were ‘compromised’. Daily Express :: News Feed