Schools' Report Cards Anger NYC Parents

Thanks to heavy parent involvement and high test scores, Public School 321 in Park Slope, a yuppie neighborhood in Brooklyn, is considered a gem of New York City's public school system.

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(Peoria, IL) -- A group of current and former teachers at a middle school in Peoria are taking the school district to court, saying they were discriminated against because they're white.

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There are two key unaddressed issues. Public schools never got racially integrated from the 1954 US Supreme Court ruling to integrate. Desegregation supplanted integration.

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LEWISTON — A national Muslim civil rights organization has filed a formal request with the Lewiston School Department to allow a middle school student to pray on school property.

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When I think about the "foods of minimal nutritional value" that are banned from public school cafeterias by federal law, the first thing that pops into my mind is a doughnut, one made delicious by hideous amounts of fat and sugar.

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A substitute teacher asked a female student to put away her cell phone. The student ignored her and continued to text on her phone. The substitute teacher took the phone from the student.

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Asked if the legislature would be open to academic freedom legislation, Rubio told the Witness, "I think so. Sure. Well, I think the Florida House would. I can't speak for the Senate."

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A girl has been forced to attend public school by a judge who was concerned that she was a Christian who needed exposure to "world views." As is true of properly homeschooled children, Amanda Kurowski was significantly ahead of her public school peers academically, but the c …

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IN public and private schools, classmate put-downs can make it harder for good students to learn and more difficult for poor students to catch up.

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Project Race: What is it? Will you participate?

Children are being sent home with forms that ask for their racial background. These forms have the child's name address and phone number and other private information preprinted on them. Many parents are really upset about this and want to know what it's for.

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Whenever I evaluate a school, my first stop is the boys' bathroom because, without an unflushed urinal of doubt, it is every school's least common denominator.

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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the South Iron R-1 School District may not allow distribution of Bibles to children in elementary school. [...] The battle over religious advocacy in the Annapolis, Mo., school district has been long-running.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Gov.

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I for one am glad they are doing this. For all the talk of how badly our public educatuion system is failing our youth, it's good to see that this school is trying something different to improve the educational environment and find ways to better the methodology.

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Detroit Merit Academy is what charter school proponents envisioned when Michigan's first charter schools began opening their doors 15 years ago.

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This is a very interesting and insightful article that I hope will get parents talking about the power structure of their neighborhoods and their school boards that represent their public school system.

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Stimulus Monies? .... Too Little Too Late for Education

Being a parent for thirty-one years might make me somewhat of authority on the education system in America.

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In a light-filled classroom in Sherman Oaks, gregarious teacher Jenna Zucker dons a straw hat and, in an exaggerated Southern drawl, invites the gathered first- and second-graders to an imaginary picnic.

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Sirdeaner L. Walker of Springfield, Massachusetts complained to her son's school about the daily taunts. The bullies who tormented her son Carl with the words "gay" and "fag" made her feel worse than the breast cancer she survived.

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In a "Dear Governor" letter to the 50 states, Mr. Duncan said $44 billion in stimulus money was being made available to states immediately.

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Parents of two elementary school students last week filed a lawsuit against the St.

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) slipped language into the $410 billion omnibus spending bill that would essentially eliminate federally funded Opportunity Scholarships after next year.

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NEW YORK — An education expert is warning that some American textbooks present a biased view of Islam and offer a sugarcoated picture of Islamic extremism, a trend that has parents worried about what's being taught in public schools.

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The idea comes during a Dallas ISD financial crisis that resulted in the layoffs of more than 500 employees, most of them teachers. Trustees also have come under fire for canceling the May school board elections and extending their terms for another year during a time of turmoil.

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I agree with the author of this article. I think the goal to raise and release morally solid and socially responsible adults into society is the best reason to homeschool.

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