Education

Recent Education News

1 day 12 hours ago

Arlington County Public Schools is planning to build two new elementary schools -- the first new schools since the 1990s -- to handle the booming enrollment that's straining the small district.

2 days 44 min ago

An elementary school teacher in Prince William County was arrested for allegedly assaulting a student, police said.

2 days 14 hours ago

Approximately 85 of Maryland's religious organizations, schools and neighborhood groups are banding together to fight for state legislation known as the Dream Act, which would allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition.

2 days 14 hours ago

Maryland officials voted Wednesday to spend an additional $161.5 million on school construction projects, bringing the total to $349.2 million for the upcoming school year.

2 days 14 hours ago

The District is changing the rules governing its teacher evaluations, encouraging public schools to reduce the emphasis on standardized test scores when rating their teachers.

3 days 12 hours ago

D.C. officials are considering moving school security in-house, after running into continual problems with contracting companies over the years.

4 days 12 hours ago

Montgomery County teachers and other school employees are set to receive pay raises of 3.4 percent next school year, including some of the paychecks they missed when salaries were frozen in the past few years.

5 days 11 hours ago

Just down the hall from the reference desk at Emory University's law library in a room housing antique legal texts is Stanley the golden retriever puppy, barking his head off.

5 days 12 hours ago

The admissions director for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is investigating how the admissions process at the elite Alexandria magnet school allowed so many struggling students into its freshman class,

5 days 12 hours ago

Federal education officials say they have "significant concerns" about the District's efforts to get out from under a law requiring all public school students to be proficient in math and reading by 2014.

Tue, 2011-11-01 15:52