Alternative Education To Get Boost
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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 [...]
New CTA fare cards able to track students
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Later, school administrators said they still need to check on the legality of collecting information about students off school grounds before using the transit cards to help deal with truant students.
“If there is a way that we could use this tool to improve attendance, we will take advantage of that,” said Michael Vaughn, a Chicago [...]
Lake County schools consider sales tax for education
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Millburn Community School District 24 backed the plan in January. In Ingleside, Big Hollow School District 38’s board members plan to vote on the proposal next month. Others from Antioch to Deerfield have taken a wait-and-see approach. The proposal takes advantage of a [...]
An education in terror is no small matter
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It’s easy to pick on school administrators.
In 25 years, I’ve probably contributed 100 columns to
the effort. And none was without merit.
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Amid housing tumult schools try to draw line on residency
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Data from local school districts showIllinois had about 18,000 homeless students in 2006, but the state estimates the number could actually be as high as 60,000. And the figure may be rising as the sub-prime mortgage crisis sent Illinois foreclosures soaring to 64,310 in 2007, a jump [...]
Parents in Morton Grove district demand explanation for resignations
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Board members took questions and comments for more than an hour, but, to the ire of many in the crowd, they would not answer questions regarding Girard’s resignation or the search for her replacement, citing advice from the board’s attorney. “We have [...]
Pay raise turning complicated
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It seems everybody on Capitol Hill wants to give educators a nice raise.
But how to go about it?
The question turned into a drama of sorts Friday morning in the House Education Committee, with the starting pay-raise bill upstaged and, ultimately, stripped of [...]
Schools become storm shelters
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HIGHLAND As the storm finally broke and roads in northern Utah County began to clear Thursday, worried parents rushed to Ridgeline Elementary School in Highland to pick up their sleepy children.
The stranded students spent the night at the school, playing games and watching movies, finally [...]
Exlegislator to fill education post
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Christmas is coming in February for Joanne Milner.
The former Salt Lake City councilwoman and state legislator was announced Wednesday as Mayor Ralph Becker’s choice to fill the new position of education partnership coordinator in the mayor’s office.
Milner, who has spent the past [...]
