The Sixth Circuit has ruled that a Tennessee school district’s student assignment plan does not violate African-American students’ Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights.
Continue reading...State-appointed managers will take over the El Paso Independent School District after the U.S. Department of Justice said it won’t oppose ousting the locally elected school board in the wake of a testing scandal at several of high schools.
Continue reading...Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, says teachers need at least a year to master the new common core before schools should be held accountable for results.
Continue reading...The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit against the California Department of Education (CDE) alleging CDE has ignored its obligation to make sure that thousands of students learning English receive adequate and legally required assistance.
Continue reading...The White Plains, New York school system has entered into an agreement with U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that requires the district to encourage and provide more opportunities for nonwhite students to take AP and honors courses.
Continue reading...Teachers have filed suit in federal court charging Florida’s sweeping merit-pay law unfairly resulted in many teachers’ evaluations being based on the test scores of students or subjects they did not teach in violation of the equal-protection and due-process clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
Continue reading...Proposed legislation in Florida would give parents of special needs kids the final say about their child’s education.
Continue reading...Beverly Hall, the former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools (APS), and 34 others have been indicted by a Fulton County grand jury looking into the APS cheating scandal.
Continue reading...The California Teachers Association (CTA) and the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) have filed a motion in L.A. County Superior Court to intervene as defendants in a lawsuit that would radically alter tenure for public school teachers.
Continue reading...In a 5-0 decision, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s private school voucher law, the “Choice Scholarship Program”, passes muster under the state constitution.
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