Most of the nation’s 48.2 million public K-12 students are assigned to their schools based on geographic school districts or attendance zones, with few options for transferring to another public school district. This method of school assignment intertwines schooling with property wealth, limiting ...
“Concluding that the governor’s executive order both “violates and is preempted by federal law,” the court permanently enjoined theattorney general from “enforcing or giving any effect to the provisions of [the order] prohibiting school districts from requiringmasks.” Federal courts in other...
For example, the board may be responsible for hiring or firing the superintendent. They may be in charge of approving contracts, setting a budget, setting a school calendar, or expanding or closing schools. Board of education meetings are usually open to the public. You can search for your ...
Among the things to be avoided (in addition to hiring an LD teacher who doesn’t have any idea about how to remediate reading problems) listed in the SHRO’s conclusion of law: 1. The school system failed to develop an IEP appropriate to James needs. (That was the biggy) 2. The ...
The award is for school districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement in efforts to provide music access and education to all students. School officials answered detailed questions about funding, graduation requirements, music class participation, instruction time, facilities, support for the music prog...
sometimes a lot of leg work was involved in order to get a single bus sold and financed. During the 1950s more money became available for school transportation and many school districts began operating their own fleets, buying their own buses and hiring their own drivers on a non-profit abs...
The policies many school districts are adopting that make it nearly impossible for low-performing students to fail—they have a grading floor under them, they know it, and that allows them to game the system. Several teachers whom I spoke with or who responded to my questionnaire mentioned ...
But you say, “My district is gerrymandered so that my vote doesn’t count.” I say, “Vote in every election and for every local and state office because it’s at the state level that districts are gerrymandered. Choose candidates who will district fairly or, more cynically, who will ...
“schools must open in the fall” and later the same week threatenedschools would lose fundingif they didn’t open. Our inept Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, whohates public education, is alsothreatening school districtsto open, or else. These two want us to not onlyignore scienceand ...
Instructions for Lea near vision cards Charge Syndrome Website for parents of children with Charge Syndrome. “CHARGE syndrome is a recognizable (genetic) pattern of birth defects which occurs in about one in every 9-10,000 births worldwide. It is an extremely complex syndrome, involving extensiv...