Largest School Districts Hire More Security Officers Than Counselors
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Many of America’s largest school districts are hiring more security officers than they are counselors. In four of the top ten largest public school districts in the country, More...
Oklahoma School Funding Lawsuit Looks to Right 20-Year Wrong
(Photo: Ilea Shutler, Oklahoma Watch) A state law in Oklahoma that would help to fund public schools was passed 23 years ago but never implemented – and now, 48 school districts are looking to the Oklahoma More...
12 Detroit School Leaders Accused in Bribery, Kickback Scheme
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Twelve current and former principals, administrators, and a vendor have found themselves enmeshed in Detroit’s campaign to eliminate school corruption after being charged More...
Islamic school tells pupils British customs are anti-Muslim
A PRIVATE Islamic school is under investigation after it was revealed that teachers were telling pupils Jewish people were trying to take over the world and that musical instruments should be destroyed. Daily Express More...
North Carolina School Turnarounds Failed, Report Says
(Photo: Robert Couse-Baker, Creative Commons) A report from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research examines the effects of school turnaround in the public school system More...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to Open Charter School in Harlem
(Photo: Shamsuddin Muhammad, Creative Commons) Rapper, producer, and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs has become the newest celebrity to invest his money into primary education as the founder of a More...
Court Rejects Student Claim That Law School Lied Over Employment
(Photo: Peggy Peattie, San Diego Union-Tribune) A jury has decided that one of the lowest-performing law schools in America did not mislead one of its recent graduates who sued the school, charging that they made More...
Colorado School at Center of Religious Materials Controversy
(Image: Center for Inquiry, Amherst, NY) The Delta County School District in Colorado has announced plans to make literature from atheist and Satanic organizations available to students in public middle and high More...
Birth of a Nation’s Parker Announces Drama School in Texas
(Photo: Essence) The direct of the 2016 film “The Birth of a Nation,” Nate Parker, has officially announced the launch of a School of Film and Drama in his name at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. The More...
Sen. John McCain Proposes School Choice Act for Native Americans
(Photo: Jim Greenhill, Creative Commons) US Sen. John McCain has explained that he is tired of watching the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) fail over and over again, and now the Senator is taking action by More...