Education News

Dr. Billy Reagan is 83 years old and even though his days as superintendent of the Houston ISD are long behind him, he still keeps a careful watch over the largest public school district in the state.

For the third year in a row, the Chattanooga All-Star Band donated their Riverbend performance fee to the Orange Grove Center, bringing the total raised to over $3,000.

Michigan State University's Scott Imberman and colleagues found that marginal students in a middle school gifted and talented program -- despite learning alongside the "best and brightest" -- performed no better on national tests than a similar group of students who didn't qualify for the program.

The Muscogee County School District improved its high school graduation rate by 5.3 percent this year and continued to surpass the state average, according to data released Wednesday.

Advocacy groups representing parents and public education are suing North Carolina officials after the General Assembly passed a law this year allowing taxpayer money to help pay private school tuition.

Gov. Mike Pence is asking Indiana lawmakers to approve more aid for charter schools, school vouchers for preschool-aged children and a host of other measures that build on the sweeping education changes approved in 2011.

Across the state, parents and teachers have been speaking out against the new learning standards called Common Core, but when state education officials came to the city, they got a different response.

Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis are already trading barbs over public schools, despite neither yet unveiling an education platform - signaling a potentially more intense education debate ahead than in past gubernatorial elections.

The Ad Hoc Goals and Objectives Committee worked throughout the summer to identify some of the needs within classrooms at different levels with the hope of setting some new district wide goals.

In classes of no more than 15, students are given one-on-one attention, voice-to-speech technologies, learning spaces with minimal distractions, hands-on-activities and printed lecture notes, says Shelly Chandler, Beacon's vice president for academic affairs.

The lead sponsor of an ambitious proposal to overhaul how the Pentagon handles allegations of sexual assault and rape says she's pushing to hold a vote on the plan before the end of the year.

News 4 was contacted by a concerned parent who believes the Ken-Ton Board of Education is trying to censor parents at PTA meetings.

Advocates of Common Core State Standards love to point out how 45 states and the District of Columbia have voluntarily adopted this new national public school regimen.

Generally speaking, students that have the option of taking the LSAT exam at an administration other the February date should take that opportunity.

Socorro Independent School District educator Jennifer Davila waited for Arielle Gallegos to choose between two books during a book giveaway at the Campestre Elementary School library Monday.

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.