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The parents wanted them to come to their home on a Sunday to help sell it. The School Board recently reassigned their neighborhood from Seven Springs Middle and Mitchell High to River Ridge middle and high schools.
Recently, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate the use of affirmative action in elite university admission. The extent to which this policy helps minority students has diminished to the point that the simultaneous disadvantage to white and Asian students is unmerited.
Prominent charter school supporters are dishing out campaign money, as key gubernatorial races in several states have now begun in earnest. June primary contests set up a number of state battles for governor in the midterm elections this November, with both Democratic and Republican candidates that could change how public resources flow into charter and private schools in the coming years.
While Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been the source of several negative and polarizing news stories since her appointment, there have actually been very few major news items about what the Department of Education is doing. We have some idea of what the future of the Department will be, given that it is part of a larger Trump Administration plan to consolidate government.
A federal judge breathed new life into a lawsuit over the Federal Aviation Administration's race-based hiring practices for air traffic controllers. The D.C. federal judge's ruling not only allows plaintiff Andrew Brigida's suit to move forward, but reignites the controversy over what critics call the Obama administration's decision to put "diversity over safety" at FAA.
But a new study , published last week, has cast the whole concept into doubt. The researchers-NYU's Tyler Watts and UC Irvine's Greg Duncan and Hoanan Quan-restaged the classic marshmallow test, which was developed by the Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel in the 1960s.
The other day Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. chief and well-known candidate for Worst Person in Washington, tossed some reporters out of a public conference on water contamination. Pruitt has been in a long-running battle with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for the title of most terrible Trump minion.
A new study offers data to support the commonly-held notion that elite media organizations draw from elite universities in hiring staff, likely contributing to an insular worldview. A recent study offers data to support the commonly-held notion that the news media are staffed largely by Americans from "elite" educational backgrounds-likely placing serious limits on the perspective top news outlets are able to offer about the nation and people on which they are tasked with reporting.
It has never been more difficult to keep up with national politics. Between ongoing investigations, tweets, tensions with foreign powers, and disputes over immigration, taxes and health care policy, it is easy to lose sight of what matters in our daily lives: decisions that impact our quality of life and paychecks.
Simmering hot-button issues - such as imposing tougher abortion restrictions and authorizing taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend private schools - could approach a boiling point as the Republican-led Legislature pushes toward adjournment.
Top Kansas Republican lawmakers moved Saturday to break their impasse over how much to increase spending on the state's public schools, feeling growing pressure to pass a plan that would satisfy a court mandate. The state House approved a bill that would phase in a $534 million increase in education funding over five years.
David Hogg, one of the most famous gun control advocates in the country, is having a tough time getting into the colleges and universities he wants. Hogg is fresh off the success of the March For Our Lives rally in Washington DC.
On March 7, Rep. Jim Banks introduced the Military Education Savings Act of 2018 to divert funding from a long-standing federal program, Impact Aid, into a voucher-like program to pay for private school tuition, tutoring, or homeschooling materials for military families. The bill is modeled off a Heritage Foundation proposal, which is supported by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, to create education savings accounts for certain military-connected students-or students who have a parent on active duty.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments a week ago today for a case with big repercussions for public-sector unions and their political influence across the country. The case at hand is Janus v.
Romania's president Klaus Iohannis named Viorica Dan... . Romanian Prime Minister designate Viorica Dancila speaks to media in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018.
California Democrats are toying with a brash scheme to skirt a new federal cap on state and local tax deductions: Instead of paying taxes to the Golden State, Californians would be allowed to donate the money to the state's coffers - and deduct the entire sum from their federal taxes. The hastily drafted proposal - to be unveiled as soon as Wednesday, when lawmakers return from a monthslong recess - strikes back at one of the least popular elements of the GOP's tax overhaul, one that hit California and other high-tax, high-cost states the hardest.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks through Statuary Hall for final passage of the Republican tax reform bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday. Republicans muscled the most sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax laws in more than three decades through the House.
One of the most celebrated educational experiments in history was performed by James Mill, the British historian, on his eldest son, John Stuart Mill, who was born outside London in 1806. John began learning Greek when he was three, and read Herodotus and other historians and philosophers before commencing Latin, at the age of seven.
Early results Tuesday night showed the anti-school-voucher slate of candidates leading in a contentious race for the Douglas County School Board. The winners will not only take control of the seven-member body but also could set the stage for the future of school vouchers nationwide.