News & Issues

Dedicated school nurses were honored earlier this month by the Healthy Schools Campaign, which supports education, health, and good food in our schools.

The role parents play in school is shown nowhere in the country better than in Maryland, where representatives from every district were honored.

High school students in Md. could soon be starting high school a little later and getting a little more time for sleep.

Some accusations and emails are flying around in one Md. county, as candidates for the school board jockey for votes this fall.

A bill in the IL Gen Assembly could change all there is to change about the way the state funds schools. Not likely in an election year.

A bill that would eliminate a charter school commission in Illinois that impedes local control is stalled. School leaders want it back on the calendar.

The US Depts of Justice and Education, hearing that schools discourage undocumented immigrants from applying, have issued guidelines once again.

A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center says right-wingers are clouding the debate over the Common Core with misinformation.

A grand jury has indicted 4 teachers and a principal from Philadelphia on charges that they altered students' answers on a statewide test.

The Chicago Teachers Union voted to oppose the Common Core State Standards. We agree in part and disagree in part.