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211: Baltimore Schools Lose In Court
In 2005, City Neighbors and Patterson Park Public, two charter schools in Baltimore, appealed the Baltimore schools? per student funding formula to the state board. The board ruled in their favor, and the Baltimore schools appealed the board?s decision in the Court of Special Appeals, Maryland?s second highest court. Early this month, the court ruled in favor of the charter schools, requiring Maryland school systems to spend as much money per student at charter schools as the...
212: New Learning Standards For Chicago Schools Kindergartners
Chicago schools educators were surprised during their teacher training session in mid-September with new state learning standards for kindergarten students. Previously, Illinois was one of 11 states that did not have learning standards for kindergarten. The state adopted standards for grades one through 12 in 1997 and even have specific ?early learning? standards for preschoolers.
Setting academic goals for kindergarten students was not a priority, since attending kinderga...
213: Dress Code Is New Hot Button For The Houston Schools
School dress codes have been around for decades, but they gained more prominence in schools and are stricter in recent years in response to the permeation of gangs and violence within the schools at all levels. In addition to maintaining modesty within the schools, dress codes now ban gang paraphernalia, colors and symbols; shirts with writing; head coverings; and other such accessories that have been linked to gangs or school violence.
Though all of the Houston schools ha...
214: Dallas Schools Tackling Tough Issue Of Ethnic Slurs
I am of a generation where Richard Pryor was the only person who ever used the N-word in a public venue. Today, however, rappers and hip-hop music is inundated with the word, and our youth who listen to it mimic their idols. It is considered to be hip, as in ?dude? or ?homeboy?, and it now has become an issue in the Dallas schools, as well as many other schools across the nation.
Recently, a middle-aged, white English teacher in Kentucky used the word toward one of his bla...
215: Foundation Supports Student Achievement In Denver Schools
The Denver Public School Foundation is a ?portal? for community and business philanthropy for the Denver schools. Originally started in 1984, it played a passive role in the Denver schools, until it was revitalized in 2002.
The purpose of the Denver schools? foundation is to raise and manage funds in support of the district?s ambitious plan to improve student achievement. The Denver schools leadership develops the funding areas, and the foundation drives community investme...
216: What Vocational Schools Are
Most companies only want to hire qualified people to be responsible in a certain job. This is because the training provided will be useful in accomplishing a certain task regardless if this managing accounts or fixing a car in the repair shop.
There are many places where an individual can be trained. If the person does not want to spend 4 years in getting a degree, there are other institutions that can provide the proper tools, which can be finished in two years or less. T...
217: Recall Fever Rages In The Michigan Schools
According to an August 14th article in the Detroit Daily News, an unintended consequence of the Michigan schools funding crisis is a growing number of recalls within the Metro-Detroit area. The grassroots efforts attempt to oust school board officials, who make unfavorable decisions within the Detroit school districts.
With the funding crisis within the Michigan schools, many local district school board members have been forced to make many difficult decisions to cut costs...
218: African American Scholarship
The African American population had been the most discriminated race in the country for the past decades. This resulted to fewer opportunities for the Blacks and lesser chances for them to prove their worth. And the worst hit was their opportunity to study.
Meanwhile, the new generation of African Americans is slowly entering the world of the all-White dominated society including the all-White fields such as Medicine, Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, and Business. Howev...
219: New Experience For Some San Diego Schools Students And Their Teachers
This July, Annie Santana, a Spanish teacher at Mission Bay High School, part of the San Diego schools, departed the city and headed for the island of Robinson Crusoe, Chile. In the seventh year of her career, Santana joined the Fulbright teacher exchange program.
For one year, Santana will teach English as a second language at a Chilean school on the island; but her students will not be losing her. A Chilean teacher will be replacing Santana at Mission Bay. While both teac...
220: Ohio Schools Achievement Committee To Review Guidelines For Teaching Controversial Topics
The Ohio schools board has drafted a framework that will set teacher guidelines to be used when teaching controversial topics in the classroom. The proposal is not a lesson plan, but rather an optional template that guides teachers to enable students to form judgments by critically analyzing all sides of a controversial subject.
The Ohio schools board has requested their Achievement Committee review the draft and make recommendations on its final structure. Some Ohio schoo...
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