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 More...
Mississippi School District Ordered to Desegregate
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) A federal court has ordered a town in Mississippi to desegregate its high schools and middle schools, thus ending a fifty-year long legal battle over integration. The United States More...
Virginia to Change High School Graduation Requirements
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has signed legislation that will overhaul his state’s high school graduation requirements in an attempt to make high school more relevant to More...
Urban Institute Report Aims to See Why High School Progress Stalls
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Despite the considerable increase in the academic achievement of elementary and middle school students since the 1990s, efforts to improve the academic quality of schools across More...
EXPLAINED: The law on taking your child out of school for a holiday
AFTER John Platt victory at the High Court regarding term time family holidays. Daily Express :: Travel Feed More...
Experts say parents are ‘held ransom’ as family holiday prices DOUBLE during school breaks
THE COST of a family holiday doubles outside of term-time. Daily Express :: Travel Feed More...
Three Teens Charged in School Beating Death of Delaware Student
(Photo: AP) This week, Department of Justice prosecutors and a detective from the Wilmington, Delaware Police Department met with Amy Joyner-Francis’s mother and older brother to share with them the charges More...
Newark, New Jersey Parents File Suit Over Lead in School Water
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) A proposed class-action suit by parents of four students who attend New Jersey’s Newark Public Schools has been filed with a claim that district, city, and state officials More...
School Crime Down Overall, But Sexual Assaults Rise
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Overall, crimes at schools in the United States have fallen over the past decade, but these encouraging statistics, however, stand in contrast to a substantial increase in the More...
Tannery Cookery School in Emerald Island is a real class act
IRISH cuisine is rapidly gaining ground on the best that Europe has to offer. Daily Express :: Travel Feed More...