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Quitman schools could see accreditation downgrade
A dispute between the Quitman school district and a school board member who feels her twin autistic sons aren't getting the services they need could lead to a downgrade in accreditation for the district. A hearing on the district's accreditation status opened Wednesday in Jackson. A hearing officer will make ...
Bryant signs laws affecting students and veterans
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill Wednesday that requires kindergarteners or first-graders to be tested for dyslexia, a reading disorder that can sometimes go undiagnosed for years and leave children struggling to learn. The matter is intensely personal for Bryant. He was in fourth grade before a caring teacher ...
Romney promotes education agenda, defends Bain
Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, welcoming scrutiny of the private equity firm he co-founded and declaring he's a far more qualified steward of the economy than President Barack Obama. At the same time, Romney said that if ...
Huntsville students in grades 4-12 getting laptops
All students in grades four through 12 in the Huntsville public school system will have laptop computers when they return to class in August. The school system has agreed to lease 11,000 computers from Hewlett-Packard for about $2.3 million a year. Huntsville's director of support operations, Aaron King, said it ...
Riverton girls soccer coaches call it a career
Rick Bergstedt is the only head soccer coach the Riverton Lady Wolverines have ever had and his wife, Peggy, has been his assistant since the second year of soccer at Riverton High School. Back in 1986, after the Wyoming High School Activities Association had made the decision to make soccer ...
2 percent hike in students reaching 'basic' level
State education officials say the percentage of Louisiana public school students reaching "basic" achievement levels on standardized tests grew from 66 percent to 68 percent this year. Superintendent of Education John White said at a Wednesday news conference that the 2 percent increase means roughly 10,000 more students are performing ...
Calif school board votes to lay off 1,500 teachers
The San Diego school board has voted to lay off more than 1,500 teachers because of the district's budget crunch. U-T San Diego (http://bit.ly/JnEpvo) reports the board voted 4-1 on Tuesday to authorize all but 132 of the 1,666 pink slips issued to teachers in March. Hundreds of other employees ...
NC Senate head pushes $440M education package
An education reform package pushed by the North Carolina's Senate leader is estimated to cost nearly $440 million over the next five years if it becomes law. Sen. Phil Berger explained the legislation Wednesday to the first legislative committee considering it. The Rockingham County Republican's bill is being revised following ...
Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials
St. Cloud Times, May 22 JP Morgan loss fuels reform calls With JP Morgan Chase now facing three different investigations because of its $2 billion (or more?) derivatives trading loss, a familiar debate is resurfacing about regulations, especially involving banks considered too big to fail. And have no doubt, JP ...
Suspensions for bike-riding Mich. high schoolers
Sixty-five students at a West Michigan high school were suspended for riding bikes to school on the last day of their senior year without informing administrators. The Kenowa Hills High School seniors had police escorts during the ride. And parents lined the 3-mile route, taking pictures and cheering for their ...
Parents want tougher middle school classes
Center Grove schools lag behind others in central Indiana in offering advanced courses to high-ability middle school students, a group of parents has found. About 10 parents, including Thomas Ferris, whose son will attend middle school at Center Grove next year, have been examining the district's high-ability courses and comparing ...
NYC gets first elementary school Arabic classes
An elementary school in Harlem is the first in New York City to offer regular Arabic-language instruction. City officials are joining founders of the program at Public School 368 for an official announcement Wednesday. The program is sponsored by the educational nonprofit Global Language Project and by the Qatar Foundation ...
Phoenix school employee found dead on campus
Authorities say a Phoenix high school employee was found dead on the school campus. Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Troy Caskey says fire crews responded Wednesday just after 6 a.m. to the discovery of a man on the track of Desert Vista High School. Caskey says the man, who appeared to ...
Seattle principal cleared in student sex complaint
A Seattle School District investigation has cleared an elementary school principal who asked students to demonstrate how a boy inappropriately touched himself. The district says Lafayette Elementary Principal Jo Lute-Ervin did not violate policy but also did not follow best practices last month when she responded to reports a third-grade ...
South Texas district will have new ed board rep
With a 30-year incumbent stepping down, the State Board of Education will have a new voice representing Crossroads classrooms. After District 2 representative Mary Helen Berlanga, a Corpus Christi attorney, announced she would not seek re-election, five contenders stepped up to nab a party nomination. The 15-member board oversees Texas' ...
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