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Rating schools 'exposes poor performers' (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
Ranking schools will put poorly performing schools and the governments responsible for them in the spotlight and force improvements, says a leading think tank.
19 Nov 2008, 8:44 pm | click here to view more
English schools 'must do better' (BBC News)
Ofsted's annual report says too many needy kids are further disadvantaged by "inadequate services" including schools.
19 Nov 2008, 8:06 am | click here to view more
Minneapolis to sell three schools to charters (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
In addition, the district will start ambitious partnerships with each of the charter schools.
19 Nov 2008, 8:01 pm | click here to view more
Schools merger plans are approved (BBC News)
Fourteen Shropshire primary schools are to be amalgamated below plans approved by the county council.
19 Nov 2008, 6:37 am | click here to view more
College athletes cluster majors at most schools (USA Today)
When the NCAA adopted new rules in 2003 intended to improve graduation rates of athletes, critics countered that below pressure to keep athletes progressing toward a degree, schools might clip academic corners to help the athletes stay eligible to play.
19 Nov 2008, 6:08 pm | click here to view more
One in three schools failing students, top inspector finds (AFP via Yahoo! News)
More than one third of English schools are failing to give students a good education, the chief inspector of schools said on Wednesday.
19 Nov 2008, 12:27 pm | click here to view more
Linking schools, housing: Developer says that’s key for new communities (The State)
Columbia businessman Don Tomlin is proposing a new way for developers statewide to do business: make sure big-scale residential projects have schools linked to them. Tomlin, who developed Lake Carolina in Northeast Richland, among other projects, pledged that he would never again spearhead a major residential project without making schools a centerpiece of the planning. He urged others to do ...
19 Nov 2008, 11:12 pm | click here to view more
Tax line held for city schools (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
City schools Superintendent Mark Roosevelt proposed Wednesday a $526.3 million operating budget for next year that is nearly $240,000 less than this year's budget and holds the line on taxes.
19 Nov 2008, 11:11 pm | click here to view more
Pilot astronomy program announced for some schools (Bangor Daily News)
Gov. John Baldacci announced on Nov. 15, with state Sen. Elizabeth M. Schneider, the initiation of a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Astrobiology Pilot Program in several Maine schools.
19 Nov 2008, 11:08 pm | click here to view more
Market plunge means less for Texas schools (Austin American-Statesman)
Turmoil in world financial markets has taken a bite out of one source of money for Texas' public schools.
19 Nov 2008, 10:00 pm | click here to view more
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