Alternative Education To Get Boost

Baltimore school administrators unveiled a plan yesterday to reduce violence and the dropout rate by overhauling alternative education, nearly doubling the number of alternative school slots by August and creating morning and evening programs for working students.
The plan calls for the creation of two new alternative schools and the redesign of existing alternative schools, where [...]

Head teachers to get powers to #8216;stop and search#8217; for drugs

Schools are set to to be given further powers to search pupils for drugs, alcohol and stolen goods to help head teachers to enforce discipline among the most disruptive students.Ed Balls, the Childrens Secretary, wrote yesterday to Sir Alan Steers, the head of a review of behaviour in schools, asking for advice on how such [...]

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