Christie Pushes to Re-write New Jersey Education Funding Formula
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s administration is arguing in court that the state needs the ability to overrule teacher contracts, rather than receiving additional funding, in order to improve struggling school districts. The governor is asking the Supreme Court to give the state the authority to override More...
Students Left Without Teachers, Health Services at LIU
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) An entire university teaching faculty has been barred from entering campus until a pay dispute is resolved, leaving students sitting in class rooms with teachers who are not More...
Conditions Will Be Attached to Ohio Charter School Grant
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) If the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) wants to keep a $ 71 million grant that is to be used for charter expansion, the state will have to comply with the US Department of More...
ECOT, Others Continue Attendance Controversy in Ohio
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow has been a contender in the most publicized fight over online school attendance, but it is by no means the only school in Ohio that is struggling More...
Malala Yousafzai Advocates for Refugee Education
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate and advocate for girls education, has been urging world leaders to guarantee a 12-year education to all refugee children. More...
School Bus is Safest Way to Get to School, Group Says
(Photo: Public Domain, Creative Commons) The American School Bus Council (ASBC), an alliance of private and public transportation suppliers, school bus manufacturers, and state officials who accept the responsibility More...
FAFSA Changes to Help Incoming Students
(Photo: GW Today) The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is currently undergoing several changes that will take effect within the next academic year. Administered by the US Department of Education, More...
High School Athletes Protest National Anthem
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) High school football players across the country are following San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s lead in his protest of social injustices by kneeling More...
Obama Administration Touts Early Childhood Ed Expansion
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Today, hundreds of thousands more US children have access to high-quality early learning programs than when the Obama administration began. It was 2013 when President Obama More...
Los Angeles Magnet School Offers Robotics Focus
(Photo: Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News) A first-of-its-kind robotics middle school in Los Angeles offers a hands-on curriculum for its students as well as the ability to gain the skills they will need to More...