CA Dept of Education: Los Angeles Schools Spent Improperly
(Photo: Youtube, Creative Commons) Los Angeles Unified school district has been ordered by state officials to redirect their spending of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to bring aid to those students who would most benefit from extra academic help. In a May 27 report, the California Department of Education determined that LA […]
From San Francisco to Chicago, Urban Farming Schools Appear
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) A school in San Francisco is about to become the first urban farming public education setting in the country as students at the Golden Bridges School learn about the role that urban farms can play in the community. Katie Pohlman of EcoWatch writes that the new campus will combine indoor and outdoor learning areas […]
Chicago CEO Claypool: Schools Won’t Open Without Funding
(Photo: ABC) Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool has said that CPS will not be able to open in the fall if state lawmakers cannot approve an education budget: “Chicago schools would not open, and I suspect most of the schools in the state would not open.” The divisions among Democratic legislators who have control over […]
Philadelphia Schools to Add Two Muslim Holidays to Calendar
(Photo: Joe Warner, NJ.com) The Philadelphia School District is one of the first school systems in the country to add two Muslim holidays to the school calendar, and Mayor Jim Kenney says he is ready to add the same holidays to city workers’ calendars. The mayor has established the Mayor’s Task Force on Cultural Inclusion to […]
Fraudulent Tutoring Program Grifts $1.2mil from Detroit Schools
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) A former Detroit Public Schools director is being accused of stealing $ 1.2 million from the district after receiving the money in return for tutoring services which were never actually offered to students. The charging document states that Carolyn Starkey Darden, 69, of Detroit stole the money between 2005 and 2012. In […]
GAO Report Suggests US Schools Are Resegregating
(Photo: AP, Rudolph Faircloth) Sixty-two years after the Supreme Court ruled that America’s schools must be integrated, schools nationwide show increasing evidence of resegregating along lines of race and income. The Government Accountability Office released a report that showed the number of schools that were segregated along racial and financial lines more than doubled over […]
Spate of Bomb Threat Hoaxes Shut Down UK, US Schools
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Dozens of schools in the United States and the United Kingdom have fallen prey to a spate of bomb threat hoaxes that have caused evacuations and forced school shutdowns. On Monday, it is estimated that schools in 21 states received phone calls claiming there were bombs on site. Alison Dirr of […]
Controversial Psychoeducational Schools Persist in Georgia
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) Six years ago, Georgia’s state Board of Education adopted a series of regulations restricting the ways that Georgie schools manage some of their most challenging students — those with behavioral disorders. The state has largely ignored these regulations, however. An investigation launched by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) found that many of […]
REVEALED: How the cost of family holiday SOARS when school’s out
PARENTS are forced to pay up to twice as much for a package getaway as soon as the school holidays begin, shows research, as a father who refused to pay a fine for taking his daughter away during term time won a High Court ruling in his favour. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
NYC’s de Blasio Asks for 7 More Years of Control Over Schools
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio visited lawmakers in the state’s capital in Albany on this week to ask legislators to renew control of city schools to the mayor’s office. But his visit gave one lawmaker an opportunity to criticize the mayor’s fundraising pursuits. “Convince me. Convince me why I should […]