Arika Herron, Dec. 2, 2018 Radio spots. Billboards. Ads on the sides of public buses. These are just a few of the places that the marketing efforts of schools — public and private — are starting to crop up as competition for students and the money that follows them heats up. Some in education see the new…
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Oklahoma GOP county chair says public education should be abolished
Andrew Lopez, chair of the Canadian County Republican Party, says public schools should seek endowments. CASEY QUINLAN DEC 3, 2018, The head of the Republican Party for a large suburban county in Oklahoma, Andrew Lopez, signed a letter last week arguing for end of public school systems. According to the Associated Press, Lopez, chair of the Canadian…
#ProtestasEnColombia | Fighting for public education in Latin America
5 December 2018 The public university strike in Colombia has reached its 7 week mark as will continue until further notice. This mobilisation throws the crisis of public education in the country into the spotlight. Español It’s calculated that Colombia has a historic deficit of more than 1000 million dollars, and that’s only the tip of…
3 ways New Orleans public schools can change the status quo
By Wilborn P. Nobles III December 3, 2018 New Orleans is home to one of the first public school systems in the South, but the city has historically educated certain segments of the city rather than the public at large, an extensive new report by The Data Center describes. In order to provide a high-quality education that’s…
How President George H.W. Bush helped pave the way for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
Valerie Strauss December 4 at 7:00 AM If you were to create a list of the most influential presidents when it comes to education policy, it isn’t likely that George H.W. Bush would be on it. His son, George W. Bush, would be, with his 2002 No Child Left Behind Act. And Barack Obama might…
Are KC public schools on the verge of a breakthrough? Full accreditation within reach
BY STEVE KRASKE November 25, 2018 Kansas City Public Schools Superintendent Mark Bedell and student Naima Wilson Jill Toyoshiba Charlie Shields is the president of the Missouri State Board of Education. So he’s got a lot of pull when it comes to the plight of Kansas City Public Schools. The district’s challenges center on one…
SC public schools just got graded. How did your child’s Beaufort County school stack up?
BY MAGGIE ANGST November 29, 2018 05:46 PM A third of Beaufort County public schools are performing below S.C. standards — and two schools are among the bottom 9 percent in the state, according to a new report released Thursday. For the first time in four years, the S.C. Department of Education released school…
Boston Public Schools plan bumps off middle schools
170-page document dump outlines district’s future plans Taylor Pettaway Friday, November 30, 2018 Phase two of the BuildBPS plan was released at the School Committee meeting Wednesday night, with the 170-page document confirming the elimination of middle schools, outlining building renovations and providing a neighborhood analysis of each area. It outlines the district’s plan…
Alabama public school enrollment down, Hispanic student population growing
By Trisha Powell Crain Enrollment in Alabama’s public schools has declined for the fifth year in a row, to 722,212 statewide, down from 726,924 last year, according to 2018-2019 enrollment numbers posted on the Alabama State Department of Education’s website. Hispanic students, while representing only 8.4 percent of the student population statewide, are the fastest-growing student group,…
Thurmond widens lead over Tuck in race for California schools chief
In latest tally, Thurmond leads Tuck by 74,000 votes as counting continues November 15, 2018 LOUIS FREEDBERG In what may be a pivotal moment in the race, Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, D-Richmond, has maintained his lead over Marshall Tuck in the contest for California’s state superintendent of public instruction based on the ongoing tallying of millions…
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