new data that is going to be released today at a national conference says that schools in the state that have increased the length of the school day have seen increases in MCAS test scores across all grade levels.

from the Boston area packed into a cafeteria at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Roxbury to give Superintendent Carol Johnson ideas to stop the dropout rate.

Idea included internships and job training.

at the changes in racial balance in Howard County school. One decade ago only four schools had a white minority, now 27 schools do.

are scrapping an idea to start the school year at the start of August.

a new report that says that second and third generation adult USA Latino people speak fluent English way more than first generation Latino people. Around 23% first generation Latino people are fluent in English compared with around 90% for both second and third generation Latino people.

school districts in the state have been told in a letter they are in danger of being abolished, taken over or stripped of administrators and schools under their jurisdiction due to not meeting goals in the NCLB bill.