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HENRY COUNTY SCHOOLS MCDONOUGH , GA December 9, 2013. Just hours from now at 7 p.m. the Henry County Board of Education will decide how or if it will change the Attendance Zone for Union Grove Parents, living along the east side of the GA Hwy 42 corridor just north of McDonough.

Students, teachers, and community groups are launching coordinated marches, town hall meetings, and teach-ins Monday in over 60 cities across the United States, demanding an end to the austerity, standardized testing, privatization, and union-busting they say is gutting public schools nationwide.

Today parents, educators, students and activists around the country are staging a "Day of Action" with scores of coordinated events in more than 60 cities that sponsors hope will draw national attention to the problems of corporate-influenced school reform and to build a national movement to change the public education conversation and to increase ... (more)

Monday is being billed as a national "Day of Action" among teachers and community groups who are worried about the state of education.

New York City Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio is considering a number of candidates to be his new public schools chancellor - a decision that is one of the most visible and important he will make as he staffs his new administration - and it seems like every day there is a new rumor about who is still on his list and who isn't.

PSAT scores will arrive for anxious high school students this week. These scores mark the time when sophomores and juniors can begin to target colleges that are in range.

I'm neither straight nor white, but I'm frequently mistaken for both -- and it's taught me a lot about privilege I first became aware of my passing as a young child confronted with standardized testing.

"Male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel" - Man Booker prize winning novelist Eleanor Catton.

American students are struggling in the rankings of an international test released Tuesday, and the battle is on over how to interpret that: While U.S. teenagers were average in reading and science, their scores were below average in math, compared to 64 other countries and economies that participated in the 2012 Program for International Student ... (more)

Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Brian Schatz of Hawaii plan to submit the legislation next week.

The American Bar Association sanctioned and fined Rutgers University School of Law in Camden this week for violating admission standards.

Teresa Davis, president of the 800-member Robeson County Association of Educators, isn't surprised with the increasing number of teachers in Robeson County and statewide who are leaving the profession or taking teaching positions in other states.

He said Montana's rich postseason history and stature as one of the FCS level's top programs would not be a factor for his players.

Saying it's really a legal contract between the state and parents, School Superintendent John Huppenthal is urging the Arizona Supreme Court to uphold the legality of what amounts to a voucher program for students.

Articles about the possibility that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio will pick D.C. Schools Superintendent Kaya Henderson as New York City's new schools chancellor are popping up in the New York press, apparently fueled by a recent phone conversation that de Blasio initiated with Henderson.

It's not every day Democrats and Republicans get to shake their fist in the same direction.

Where will they go next if such freedom is denied? An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is the latest dramatic chapter in an effort to save an Evangelical Christian family from being deported back to their home country of Germany where religious liberty was being pounded away by the government.

Why Are Students Being Pushed Toward College ? Follow the money! The Associated Press reported that over 53% of people with degrees are jobless or underemployed while Texas legislators and the Texas Education Agency push college readiness standards.

Former U.S. homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano, two months into her new job as president of the University of California system, expressed skepticism Friday about the workability of a college rating system the Obama administration is developing.

They posted perfect scores on two sections of state standardized tests, have exemplary attendance records and, according to a Hayward Unified official, are just "good kids."