News Briefs
Several teachers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., school district face discipline for posting images and material on the social-networking site Facebook that school leaders find objectionable, including one teacher who wrote, “I hate my students!”
November 17, 2008
North Carolina’s community college system last week began turning away undocumented immigrants wanting to enroll in credit-bearing classes.
May 20, 2008
Larger expenditures on regular classroom instruction do lead to better performance, with higher teacher compensation showing the single largest effect, a study finds.
April 22, 2008
Voters in Houston narrowly approved an $805 million bond issue last week that will pay for building 24 new schools, renovating 134 others, and upgrading safety and security in all schools.
November 13, 2007
School board members say they need more time to debate a policy that aims to minimize the concentration of poor students in one school.
October 16, 2007
Teachers in the Tar Heel State will get a 5 percent salary increase, and $70 million will be set aside for bonuses for educators in schools that meet or exceed state targets for student achievement.
August 14, 2007
Project-based learning is a hallmark of many of the nation’s new small high schools, but teachers are finding that it takes a lot to get it right.
September 18, 2007
A new report surveys the use of students’ socioeconomic status in pursuit of diverse and high-achieving school populations in a dozen school districts.
July 2, 2007
The 128,000-student district, which includes the city of Raleigh, is worried it won't have enough seats for all its students.
May 18, 2007
North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system got new leadership in August, but it wasn’t the superintendent or the school board. A civic group, Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education, was launched with the aim of becoming a major player in district policy.
November 28, 2006
Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.
November 14, 2006
Voters in Wake County, N.C., approved one of the largest school construction bonds on local ballots last week, giving the green light to build schools that will house an exploding student population.
November 9, 2006
A North Carolina university has stepped into a major breach at a high school on the state’s list of low performers, lending some dozen faculty members from its ranks to head up science and mathematics classes that lacked qualified teachers.
October 3, 2006
The Guilford County, N.C., school district has joined with a coalition of local foundations to offer an incentive program designed to lure some top-flight math teachers to eight of the district’s low-performing high schools.
September 19, 2006
In a push to provide more children with free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Department of Education officials have announced the expansion of two pilot programs that allow school districts to offer the extra assistance a year earlier than usual, and to serve as tutoring providers even if they themselves have been deemed poor performers.
July 27, 2006
