The Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Monday that they’ve reached a partial settlement in a court case involving an Islamic public charter school that blurred the lines between church and state.
The case, which has been going on for more than two years, has drawn More…
Broward County pubic schools would consider operating charter schools in an effort to “stem a drop in enrollment spurred by a growing number of charter schools,” according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
An editorial in the Los Angeles Times implored state education officials to re-instate an erasure analysis of standardized public school tests.
Senate Republicans have introduced legislation that would eliminate the cap on the number of charter schools in Michigan.
State Sen. Phil Pavlov (R-St. Clair), chair of the Senate Education Committee, describes the move as part of an overhaul of the state’s education system.
In a statement today More…
As education reformers grow increasingly at odds over what successful public policy and tweaks to improve school performance should look like, a pair of charter schools in Louisiana has brought undue attention to supporters of school choice alternatives financed by public dollars.
Texas public schools’ accountability ratings were released over the last two weeks — the federal ratings last week, statewide numbers on July 29 — and while are changes in store at both levels, one trend within the test data remained steady: charter schools were more likely than traditional public schools to More…
The Louisiana Department of Education released Tuesday a preliminary School Performance Score (SPS) for traditional and Recovery School District (RSD) schools that were deemed an “Academically Unacceptable School.”
The AUS label means a school is open to state-level sanctions that follow the precepts laid out by No Child Left Behind. This More…
John, an eighth grader at the time, gives another student on school grounds a candy bar. He is spotted by a security guard and told he now faces suspension. Frightened, John runs, getting caught twice and slapped with handcuffs as many times, acquiring bruises along his wrists in the process. A More…
Georgia Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers called the state’s school system “abysmal” this week, proposing a slew of remedies that curiously did not address the high rate of poverty among Georgia students.
rss