Most of the dozen states that have already gotten wiggle room from the No Child Left Behind Act don’t have very good plans in place when it comes to a key piece of the U.S. Department of Education’s requirements for turning around low-performing scho…
Continue Reading →Published Online: April 12, 2012
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Protesters yell at Gov. Scott Walker as he exits V.F.W Post 2778 in Appleton, Wis., on April 4. Walker was in town to sign veterans legislation.
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By Daarel Burnette II, Star Tribune , Minn. (MCT)
Students who used to self-segregate in the school cafeteria sit at the same tables now, joking and laughing. After school, in the lecture hall down the hallway, minority students and teachers are deep…
By Daarel Burnette II, Star Tribune , Minn. (MCT)
Students who used to self-segregate in the school cafeteria sit at the same tables now, joking and laughing. After school, in the lecture hall down the hallway, minority students and teachers are deep…
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Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable.
He was failing in his neighborhood public ele…
By Daarel Burnette II, Star Tribune , Minn. (MCT)
Students who used to self-segregate in the school cafeteria sit at the same tables now, joking and laughing. After school, in the lecture hall down the hallway, minority students and teachers are deep…
By Megan Boldt, Pioneer Press , Minn. (MCT)
As expected, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a Republican-backed plan to dip into reserves to start paying back the billions of dollars owed to Minnesota’s public schools, calling the plan a ploy and fiscally irres…
By Megan Boldt, Pioneer Press , Minn. (MCT)
As expected, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a Republican-backed plan to dip into reserves to start paying back the billions of dollars owed to Minnesota’s public schools, calling the plan a ploy and fiscally irres…
By Megan Boldt, Pioneer Press , Minn. (MCT)
As expected, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a Republican-backed plan to dip into reserves to start paying back the billions of dollars owed to Minnesota’s public schools, calling the plan a ploy and fiscally irres…
By Joy Powell, Star Tribune , Minn. (MCT)
The impersonator posed as a real Cottage Grove sixth-grader, created a Facebook page and posted threats that he would bring a gun to school and shoot three students.
Fights broke out in school as students arg…