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  • House panel starts rewrite of No Child Left Behind

    06/19/13 09:26 AM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers are beginning work on a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law that would give states more authority and Washington less. Members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee on Wednesday considered a replacement to the law that...

  • Supreme Court set to reveal major ruling

    By Mona Charen | 06/17/13 07:55 PM

    In the weeks before the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of Obamacare, the country trembled with anticipation. No such eagerness is evident now -- yet the court is again poised to rattle our world. The case of Fisher v. Texas could upend the system of racial preferences in use...

  • Teachers union head: We must have new gun regulations

    By Sean Higgins | 06/14/13 03:40 PM

    American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten co-authored an op-ed today with Tom Kuroski, president of the Newtown Federation of Teachers in the News-Times of Danbury, Conn., to plead for new gun control regulations. The column marks the 6-month anniversary of the...

  • Maryland approves new Prince George's County teacher evaluation system

    By Rachel Baye | 06/13/13 08:00 PM

    Maryland has approved new teacher evaluation systems in Prince George's County Public Schools and 20 other Maryland school systems, clearing the way for the state to receive $250 million in federal funds, the Maryland State Department of Education announced Thursday. Schools in Montgomery and...

  • Teachers union gets money managers to cut ties with conservative think tank (CORRECTED)

    By Sean Higgins | 06/12/13 06:35 PM

    American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten has been targeting hedge funds with ties to right-leaning groups. Her main tactic has been to mount PR campaigns against these funds in the hopes of getting them to cut off funding to the groups. Weingarten collected three scalps...

  • Montgomery County teacher charged with sex abuse of students

    By Scott McCabe | 06/12/13 06:25 PM

    A Silver Spring middle school teacher has been accused of sexually abusing three students on campus. Montgomery County police began the investigation last month after administrators at the A. Mario Loiederman Middle School reported that two 11-year-old girls said they were inappropriately...

  • Montgomery schools consider tightening out-of-district transfers

    By Rachel Baye | 06/12/13 06:15 PM

    Attending high school outside of a student's neighborhood would become more difficult under a new policy being considered by the Montgomery County school board. The change would, for the first time, require students who attend middle schools outside their neighborhoods to apply to attend high...

  • 86 percent of kids in closing D.C. schools haven't re-enrolled

    By Rachel Baye | 06/11/13 07:15 PM

    Only 14 percent of the students who attend closing DC Public Schools have re-enrolled in the school system for the fall, schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said Tuesday. By comparison, roughly 40 percent of the school system's overall enrollment had submitted the paperwork to re-enroll in the...

  • Op-Ed: A school for tomorrow being built in today's Ward 8

    By Donald L. Hense | 06/11/13 03:10 PM

    Last week, the board of trustees of Friendship Public Charter School and I broke ground at the site of what will become the campus of the Friendship Technology Preparatory Academy. Construction of the academy will be complete when the new school year begins in August 2014. This $22 million...

  • D.C. superintendent resigns, cites husband's health

    By Rachel Baye | 06/11/13 01:50 PM

    D.C. State Superintendent of Education Hosanna Mahaley Jones is resigning, Mayor Vincent Gray's office announced Tuesday. Mahaley Jones, who has held the position since 2011 and will step down July 26, attributed her decision to her husband's health. "I appreciate the support that has been...


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