schools

House Committee report mirrors state superintendent’s A-F grading revamp

April 12, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The North Carolina House Select Committee on Education Reform has recommended a major overhaul of the state’s school grading system, which currently assigns letter grades to schools based primarily on standardized test scores. The proposed changes […]

Tennessee gov, GOP push more scrutiny of school libraries

February 14, 2022 Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Less than a week after a local Tennessee school board attracted national attention for banning a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Gov. Bill Lee went public with a push for […]

Could others be charged, liable in Michigan school shooting?

December 9, 2021 Ed White, Associated Press

A prosecutor continues to criticize the decision to keep a teenager in a Michigan school before a shooting that killed four students last week, raising questions about whether staff and the school district will face […]

New Mexico sees TV tech as one fix to K-12 internet divide

November 27, 2021 Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press

Santa Fe, N.M. — Internet problems continue to slow down many students in the U.S. state of New Mexico, but a pilot project using TV signals to transmit computer files may help. Last Thursday, state […]

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WHATLEY: During COVID-19, Gov. Cooper made a bad situation worse

March 31, 2021 Michael Whatley

A few weeks ago, Gov. Cooper held his first in-person press conference since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to announce schools will be resuming in-person instruction. Democrats have lauded Cooper’s decision as “leadership.” In […]

Zoom glitches, grinding US schools to a halt

August 25, 2020 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare Monday when Zoom — the video-conferencing service that powers everything from distance learning to business meetings to casual, […]

‘Impossible’: School boards are at heart of reopening debate

August 15, 2020 Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Helena Miller listened to teachers, terrified to reenter classrooms, and parents, exhausted from trying to make virtual learning work at home. She heard from school officials who spent hundreds of hours […]

Schools opening remotely are leaving special needs behind

August 5, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — With Gov. Roy Cooper’s school reopening announcement allowing districts to reopen under Plan C, full remote learning, parents who have children with special needs say they are being left behind. Two families agreed […]

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GINGRICH: Cheating the children or empowering the parents

July 29, 2020 Newt Gingrich

The United States is gradually grinding to an educational collapse as the giant bureaucracies and extraordinarily powerful teachers’ unions ignore children and education in pursuit of power. Many of the wealthiest school systems have decided […]

Pence says schools reopenings ‘best thing for our kids’

July 24, 2020 The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Vice President Mike Pence kept up the Trump administration’s push for reopening schools and universities, insisting Friday that it can be done safely even amid public worries about the health risks posed by […]