Tag Archives: Schools
Venezuela Shuts Schools and Tells Workers to Stay Home After Big Power Cuts
I got into 39 colleges without cheating: What applying to schools looks like in 2019
Jordan Nixon got into 39 colleges without any celebrity parents or $ 500,000 bribes. But that doesn't mean it wasn't "stressful to say the least."
Pakistan seizes religious schools in intensified crackdown on militants
The move represents Pakistan’s biggest move against banned organizations in years and appears to be targeting Islamic welfare organizations that the United States says are a front for militant activities. Pakistan is facing pressure from global powers to act against groups carrying out attacks in India, including Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), which claimed responsibility for the Feb. 14 attack that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police. Pakistani officials say the crackdown is part of a long-planned drive and not a response to Indian anger over what New Delhi calls Islamabad’s failure to rein in militant groups operating on Pakistani soil.
Parents of bullied CPS students seek to make changes in schools
Fox Business Network presenter blames schools teaching ‘fairness’ as poll shows support for higher taxes on multi-millionaires
L.A. school board seeks pause on charter schools, after teachers' strike
The Los Angeles school board voted on Tuesday to ask state lawmakers for a moratorium on new charter schools in the area, as demanded by a union for more than 30,000 teachers in a six-day strike that ended last week. The 5-1 vote by the school board represented a dramatic shift for a panel on which at least half the members had previously supported charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately managed. Charter schools operate in most of the United States with teachers who often are not represented by a union.
Trump boosts bills to teach his favorite book — the Bible — in public schools
The March for Life is a different kind of field trip for schools like Covington Catholic
Los Angeles teachers strike, claiming 'existential battle' over schools
More than 30,000 Los Angeles teachers demanding pay raises and smaller classes walked off the job in America’s second-largest school system on Monday, marching downtown in the rain after negotiations over a new contract broke down. Students arriving for classes at some 900 campuses across the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) were met by their teachers carrying picket signs in the city’s first teachers’ strike in three decades. “It’s an existential battle for the future of public education,” teacher Mike Finn told Reuters outside John Marshall High School in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz.
'You Can't Teach Dead Kids.' Safety Report Warns Florida Schools to Do More After Parkland Shooting
