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Teachers take over schools in education reform (AP)

Published on November 13, 2010 By rohit

LOS ANGELES – Four years ago, Parkman Middle School in Los Angeles was spiraling downward with plummeting enrollment, abysmal test scores and notoriety for unruliness. Then teachers stepped out of the classroom and took charge of the school

Pa. school nixes Biden’s rally for Democrat Lentz (AP)

Published on October 26, 2010 By rohit

PHILADELPHIA – A Democratic congressional candidate says a Philadelphia-area school district is playing politics by canceling a rally headlined by Vice President Joe Biden. Biden is set to campaign Wednesday for Democrat Bryan Lentz in the home stretch of a close race for an open congressional seat

Deflated bus tires force Ohio school closing (AP)

Published on October 18, 2010 By

MADISON, Ohio – A school district near Cleveland has canceled Monday’s classes because vandals deflated tires on most of the school buses. Madison Local Schools Superintendent Roger Goudy tells Cleveland television stations WJW and WKYC that about three-quarters of the district’s 41 buses were found in a bus garage with air let out of their tires.

LA schools seek layoffs system opposed by union (AP)

Published on October 7, 2010 By

LOS ANGELES – A proposed agreement that would change how teachers are laid off in the nation’s second-largest school district is being hailed as a landmark that could pave the way for changes in urban districts across the nation, but the city’s teachers union said Wednesday that it had “serious concerns.” The settlement, which must be approved by a judge, would shield up to 45 underperforming schools from teacher layoffs for budget reasons.

Obama: DC public schools are ’struggling’ (AP)

Published on September 27, 2010 By

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says his daughters couldn’t get the same quality education at a Washington, D.C. public school that they currently get at their private school

LA environmental school site in toxic soil cleanup (AP)

Published on September 12, 2010 By rohit

LOS ANGELES – Students at a new green themed school named for noted conservationists Rachel Carson and Al Gore don’t have to go far for a lesson in environmental contamination: Their $75 million campus was laden with toxic soil. Los Angeles Unified district officials have spent $4 million to clean up the site of the new Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies, which is set to open Monday

Texas mom says she waved finger, not gun, at team (AP)

Published on September 11, 2010 By

SAN ANTONIO – A Texas mother who witnesses said pulled a gun on a seventh-grade volleyball team that badly beat her daughter’s team told police she merely waved her finger and never threatened the children, officials said Friday.

Race to the Top promises new era of standardized testing (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on September 3, 2010 By rohit

Put down your No. 2 pencils and get ready for the next generation of standardized tests, featuring fewer multiple choice questions and increased use of computers

APNewsBreak: 10 named school grant winners (AP)

Published on August 24, 2010 By rohit

ATLANTA – The U.S. Education Department said Tuesday that nine states and the District of Columbia will get money to reform schools in the second round of the $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” grant competition

Ed Department to name ‘Race to the Top’ winners (AP)

Published on August 24, 2010 By

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Education Department is expected to name the winners of the second round of its $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” school reform grant competition