News Briefs
As Roman Catholic schools and parishes across the Gulf Coast region struggle to recover from Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, the National Catholic Educational Association has launched a fundraising campaign to help out.
October 7, 2008
Students in a rural Arkansas district have found a way to put their long bus rides to good use: work on math and science enrichment.
October 7, 2008
John E. Deasy, the superintendent of the 128,000-student Prince George’s County, Md., school district, is leaving to become the deputy director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s education division early next year.
October 7, 2008
The Clark County, Nev., school district is revising mathematics tests used to gauge middle and high school students after they overwhelmingly failed the tests last year.
October 7, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed two bills making it tougher for teachers who commit sex crimes to remain in California’s public schools.
October 7, 2008
A state appeals court in Massachusetts has upheld the reinstatement with full back pay of three teachers who were fired by the Lowell school district for “failure to demonstrate fluency in English.”
October 7, 2008