Nation’s Wealthy Places Pour Private Money Into Public Schools, Study Finds
By MOTOKO RICH
With funding formulas that cap or redirect local property tax revenues to state coffers, some places are looking for other ways to capture local money.
Despite guidelines, schools districts are requiring documents that are often difficult for parents to obtain, forcing children to stay at home.
“Yes means yes” means checking in with your partner during sex, but many young men say they don’t know how to have that conversation.
With funding formulas that cap or redirect local property tax revenues to state coffers, some places are looking for other ways to capture local money.
Several schools have allowed humanitarian exceptions to restrictions on trips to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the countries most affected by the virus.
Though the Council has very limited power over public schools, the bill’s sponsors say they do have the ability to increase the volume of the conversation.
The major personnel reshuffling was the first since Chancellor Carmen Fariña took over in January.
Professor Mazrui, who had taught since 1989 at Binghamton University, set off national criticism with his 1986 television documentary, “The Africans: A Triple Heritage.”
The new graduation rules would offer a variety of alternative subjects, including language, accounting, humanities or one of 13 vocational assessments.
The investigation may be complicated by conflicting accounts from witnesses and some of the freshman football players targeted by older members of the Sayreville War Memorial High School team.
More young people are moving to the very heart of cities, even in economically troubled places like Buffalo and Cleveland.
The organization has spent years moving away from its roots in camping and crafts to embrace more modern-day themes. Now some are pushing for a return to tradition.
The first products from a partnership between the nonprofit producer of “Sesame Street” and the children’s speech recognition company ToyTalk could be available early next year.
A study released this month says that by 2024, Britain will add 83,000 foreign graduate students to the nearly quarter-million it hosted in 2013.
The guidance came after complaints that children who are in the U.S. illegally had been barred from public school classes in Hempstead.
John E. Deasy, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, had clashed with the school board, and drawn flak for a flawed $1.3 billion plan to give iPads to students.
The student, who had recently returned from Liberia and was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital with a fever, was said to be improving.
Dozens of faculty members asked the school to withdraw its new sexual misconduct policy, saying it violated basic principles of fairness and would do more harm than good.
As the first black superintendent of schools in Selma, Ala., Dr. Roussell aspired to equalize educational opportunity, only to be fired amid racial animosities, protests and a school boycott.
The state-appointed board that oversees the city’s school district canceled the teachers’ union contract and required them to contribute to health care premiums.
The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court unanimously voted on Tuesday to allow for a major expansion in the heart of Greenwich Village.
Dozens of the schools have sprung up around the country to teach computer programming, offering students a fast-paced curriculum and the promise of jobs.
A charter school training program reflects the belief that teachers, like doctors, need to practice repeatedly with experienced supervisors before they can take the reins in classes of their own.
Police and court records and interviews with witnesses show that the Tallahassee police on numerous occasions have soft-pedaled allegations of wrongdoing by Seminoles football players.
The government wants to rewrite textbooks to make wartime history more “patriotic.” But at the same time, it wants to project an open, international image.
Secularism in schools has been undergoing a transformation that signals a reticence on the part of the government to separate religion from politics.
Bernard Gassaway, the principal of Boys and Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, offered Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Education Department one of its sternest public rebukes yet.
The Army War College rescinded a master’s degree awarded to John E. Walsh of Montana after determining that he had copied large portions of a paper.
Donations to educational institutions are increasing. What to consider when your contribution is significant.
Sean Shaynak, a Brooklyn Technical High School teacher who faces 36 charges including sexual abuse and forcible touching, appeared forever stuck in high school to those who knew him.
The decision by a state committee substantially increased the size of Success Academy, one of the city’s largest and most polarizing charter networks.
Witnesses said that students from a teachers college were apprehended by police officers, killed and buried in Iguala, Mexico, but their accounts fuel further questions.
Inside the Obama administration’s standoff with Republicans, the food industry and the nation’s lunch ladies over the future of the cafeteria.
The government strategy to subsidize higher education is failing at its core task: giving less privileged Americans a real shot at a college degree.
Emory University has acquired an important — and huge — trove of the Georgia-born author Flannery O’Connor’s papers and effects.
Can women’s colleges survive the transgender movement?
In honor of National News Engagement Day, here are 50 ideas to help teachers bring current events into the classroom.
A group of authors and researchers met this month to support engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs in aiming higher with technology, despite elusive grants.
Sorority members invest many hours in crafting, making gift baskets, baking personalized treats, decking out rooms. Share your handmade creations with Education Life. Selected readers’ photos will be published.
William Deresiewicz, who’s caused a stir in Ivy League circles with his book “Excellent Sheep,” is on a tour of those colleges to discuss his critique of them and his advice.
We should learn from the spymasters and assess students in person.
What can be done to make a career in education more attractive to men and people of color?
Checking in with college students, before and after their freshman year in New York City.
High-achieving women are returning to jobs they left to care for children or aging parents, taking advantage of help offered by the banks and law firms that first hired them. Also, going to school to become an umpire or referee: In the big leagues, at least, the money is good.
Average scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have been rising but large disparities among races and economic classes remain.
A complete summary of demographics and student performance over the past decade for every school in New York.