Though charter schools have been slow to reach military communities, the first privately-financed charter school on a U.S. military installation is set to open on Joint Base Andrews this fall.
Despite America’s struggling economy, companies are hard pressed to find adequately trained workers to fill jobs in manufacturing and other technical sectors as baby boomers retire.
Model legislation opposing Common Core standards recently presented at the American Legislative Exchange Council will likely pass later this summer rather than in May following a media and politica
Kansas legislators are seeking approval for key Medicaid system reforms the state will need to survive federal cuts over the next five years and streamline their program.
Discord amongst state officials and quiet meetings without the state’s top education official may affect South Carolina’s bid for a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind requirements.
Education cuts may be the focus of those generating Gov. Scott Walker’s recall election, but new evidence shows his supporters have the better argument for education saving the state’s budget.
Scoring engines created to grade student essays are not only valid tools, but in some cases outrank their human counterparts in accuracy and reliability, concluded a study by Ben Hamner and M
Denver Public Schools could improve by applying charter school-tested strategies such as specific performance metrics, according to a report published by Colorado’s Donnell-Kay Foundation.
According to a recently released study, President Obama’s expansion of Medicaid, intended to add upwards of 16 million Americans to the program, could actually restrict access to health care for th
This fall, Georgia voters will decide on an amendment to the state’s charter law which would allow charter schools to be created without being subject to a school district veto.
Top young soccer players around the nation will now have to choose between playing a ten-month season with top teams and a shorter season with their public school home team.
Although Ohio is party to the 26-state lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law, an internal split has developed within Republican Gov.
A new Colorado law builds on previous attempts to evaluate teachers, setting six standards for measuring teacher effectiveness and making tenure contingent on continued “effective” ratings.
Wisconsin’s State Assembly passed Assembly Bill 110, which would allow disabled students to take up to $13,376 in state funding to a public out-of district, private, or charter school.
Florida Senate Bill 1852 would require school boards to share federal funding for property costs with charter schools, which often set up shop in churches, empty strip malls, or other alternative l
As reported in the March 3, 2013 Idaho Statesman, a woman who has been designated a vexatious litigant by three western states for filing frivolous lawsuits--as well as by federal courts at the...
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