The Louisiana House has approved the proposal that wants to let science teachers change the present ways of teaching topics like evolution, cloning and global warming in state public schools. The House voted 94-3 for the proposal. District Administration reports that the Senate has already agreed to the bill, but it heads back to that [...]
The Louisiana Senate has voted for a bill that plans to let middle-income students in New Orleans attend private schools at taxpayer expense. The vote passed by 25 to 12. The New York Times reports that the $10 million school voucher measure, needs one more routine vote in that body on the Senate language changes [...]
The South Carolina Department of Education plans to launch a statewide effort to prevent sex abuse in state schools. More than 10,000 teachers and school employees will participate in a training program that seeks to teach them how to spot potential problems and intervene in abusive relationships. The Education Week reports that teachers, school nurses, [...]
The United States of America has always been the center of STEM education (The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in the world and with the present growth in technologies, more attention is required to be paid to its education system in high schools. The calls to improve education in the STEM fields is not new [...]
The Bloomberg administration has approved the new promotion policy that requires next year’s eighth graders to pass core courses and score at a basic level on English and Math standardized exams. The Panel for Education Policy approved the proposal of the new policy by a vote of 11 to 1 during its meeting at Tweed [...]
Jefferson Country Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, is proposing a new student-assignment plan to Louisville District. Education Week reports that the plan will maintain racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity in local schools. Seven months after its student-assignment plan was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Jefferson County, Ky., school district has proposed a [...]