School News

A rare winter storm hit the South Tuesday and left many people stranded on roads for so long that it tested their stamina. Some of them, including 2 busloads of kids, had to be rescued.

We comment on a few remarks made by President Barack Obama in his fifth State of the Union address. We find his rhetoric inspiring but his sense of reality disconnected.

A report released today by the Annie E Casey Foundation shows that in almost every state, the gap in early reading achievement has widened over the last 10 years between poor and affluent kids.

Revisions to the code of student discipline were adopted by the Md. State Board of Education today, as zero tolerance finds itself on the way out in our schools.

Several schools in Illinois have preemptively canceled Monday, anticipating dangerous wind chills near 45 below, which could freeze exposed skin in minutes.

Chicago will get 7 new charter schools next year, which will open on the heels last year of the closure of about 50 neighborhood public schools.

Gov Chris Christie gets behind a superintendent in Newark who recently suspended 4 principals, basically, for disagreeing with her educational philosophy.