The Chicago Sun-Times Reports….
on a process the local school district created for parents to appeal their children’s rejections from the system’s most coveted schools.
on a process the local school district created for parents to appeal their children’s rejections from the system’s most coveted schools.
on the state that is going to wind up getting almost 26 million in order to fix low performing schools.
on Cleveland schools that might lay off more than 650 teachers in the teachers union
Yahoo.com has up an article on the new Allen Eagles Stadium that is set to open in 2012. This is for a high school football team and the stadium cost is almost 60 million bucks!!!
I know Texas just loves football, but that money could be better spent on teachers and classrooms.
looks at new report out that showcases that future math teachers only got an average grade of C on a new test comparing their skills with their counterparts in 15 other countries.
with a report looking at the Wichita Kansas area and the hybrid learning schools they have. The students use computer-based courses at dropout-recovery and creditrecovery centers under the direction of certified teachers to get a high school diploma.
The report showcased that the school district saw around 8 percentage point gain in the amount of high school graduates, but also found that around 40% of students in the dropout-recovery and creditrecovery centers did drop out of the program.