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The debate rages on over how high the stakes should be for standardized tests being developed to assess students' progress with respect to the Common...

The application for a virtual charter school that might open in suburban Chicago was denied by 18 separate school districts, and the company will have...

A report in yesterday's Des Moines (Iowa) Register shows how Maryland's school improvement efforts have left other states, including Iowa, in the dust. [...]Read More......

The country's second-largest school district has banned suspensions for students who are responsible only for "willful defiance" such as failure to wear a school uniform....

Annette DiMaggio of Queen Anne's County has been named statewide winner of the sixth annual Maryland Parent Involvement Matters Awards program. [...]Read More... from Md....

A new law in Maryland will make it easier for students to earn a degree in college and to leave high school ready for college...

A rise of voices in support of public education, against corporate reform and public school privatization efforts, notably in Chicago, is becoming difficult to ignore....

Lawsuits filed by parents and the Chicago Teachers Union aim to delay or stop the closure of 54 public schools in Chicago at the end...