Teachers believe a great many myths about brain science, such as that learning styles matter and enriching preschool environments boosts learning, according to
The federal government’s strategy of spending billions to fix failing public schools has accomplished nothing significant, according to figures from a newly released U.S.
Forty-one percent of New York school superintendents believe they will not be able to finance their budgets within four years and 77 percent say they will not have the money to comply with state an
A district judge has ruled Louisiana’s new voucher program is unconstitutional because of how the state funds it, leaving the education of 5,000 voucher students uncertain. Gov.
The board of a conservative legislator network has decided it will remain neutral on Common Core standards rather than endorse model legislation encouraging states to drop the nationwide K-12 requi
School districts cannot sue parents who use state funds to send their special-needs children to private schools, the Oklahoma State Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in November.
Michigan K-12 students would become free agents, able to attend any in-state public school that will enroll them and even take different classes at different schools, under a proposal Gov.
Most states begin legislative sessions in spring 2013, and several lawmakers have already indicated they will introduce Parent Trigger or school voucher legislation. Here’s a list.
President Obama’s reelection with no change of leadership in the House and Senate means he and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will maintain current policies: multiple federal grants for favored in
Although Kentucky is one of just nine states that do not offer charter schools, a new 2012 law does allow school districts the freedom to operate similarly to the autonomous public schools.
Although denying it “acted wrongly,” Grand Valley State University in Michigan has agreed to pay student Kendra Velzen $40,000 for refusing to allow Velzen to bring her “therapy guinea pig” into...
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