A Louisiana charter school is changing a policy that required pregnant students to be removed from class and home-schooled, pending board approval, a school official said Thursday.
In a scene unfolding in many Latino communities throughout the country, the graduation ceremony at Garcia High School in Chicago was especially celebratory Saturday: 20% of the graduating seniors are illegal immigrants who can now put their education to use with work permits authorized by President Obama's new immigration rules.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker's convincing win Tuesday in Wisconsin was not just a victory for the governor himself, but a major triumph for conservatives in the fight to curb public employee unions. For the country's sake, however, it will be far better if this struggle remains a fight rather than all-out war.
About half the schools in Tennessee didn't meet the annual yearly progress requirements of the No Child Left Behind law last year. Tennessee is not alone.
Sec. of Education Arne Duncan talks about a waiver program aimed at absolving schools from Bush-era education standards.
"Good afternoon," Megan Zor calls out over the din of the seventh-grade English class taking their seats inside Mastery Charter School's Shoemaker Campus.
For decades, Harlem has been a hub of African-American culture and the NAACP. But this month, the issue of charter schools has turned the New York City neighborhood into a battleground between activists and the 101-year-old civil rights organization.
As many as 18 Detroit schools will either be converted into charter schools or be closed, Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Robert Bobb said Wednesday.
Natalie Crate loves her family's home in a serene community on Massachusetts' North Shore, but come spring, it might be for sale. Crate and her husband aren't happy with the local public schools and would rather have a great education for their daughter than a nice house.
An Ohio mom is sentenced to jail for lying about her address so her kids could go to a better school.
It would be churlish not to recognize that the new documentary "Waiting for 'Superman'" is a well-intentioned cry for reform in American public education. Director Davis Guggenheim, who won a 2007 Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth," even performs political magic: "Superman" is a lefty's screed that right-wingers have lauded. Almost every reviewer loved it. I did, too, but on reflection I've got a beef.
Every year, thousands of families gather in school gymnasiums and auditoriums across the country to enter a drawing, one they believe will make the difference between success and struggle.
CNN's Steve Perry follows the challenges that Harlem parents have to go through to get their child into a strong school.
While we are only just approaching October, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas for the charter school movement. Since the documentary Waiting for Superman opened in select theaters last week, a cast of notables have announced a cascade of donations and investment pledges for charters, and it looks it's just the beginning of this holiday season.
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports on a new California "trigger law" that allows parents to take back failing schools.
It's back-to-school time, which means some in the media have gone back to asking: "What's wrong with our schools? And how can we fix it?"
President Barack Obama said Thursday his plan to improve America's education system includes charter schools, intense teacher education and parent involvement.
Pres. Obama addresses the Race to the Top inititive at the National Urban League's 100th Anniversary convention.
Today, in California and other states across the nation, students, teachers, faculty and workers have been protesting, striking, walking out of classes and staging sit-ins and teach-ins. They are protesting budget cuts, tuition hikes, compensation reductions, layoffs and privatizations affecting public K-12 schools and universities.
Students throughout the United States protest the proposed budget cuts in education.
"Why do only rich kids get good schools?"
Teachers unions and politicians are constantly claiming that K-12 public schools need more money in order to produce good academic results. But does the data support the argument that our schools need more money to succeed?
President Obama has made it clear from the earliest days of his presidency that he intended to make education a high priority for his administration.
To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.
President Obama began to flesh out the details of one of his signature campaign promises Tuesday, outlining his plan for a major overhaul of the country's education system "from the cradle up through a career."
President Obama issues a challenge to states to raise the quality of education.
What's it really like to be a new member of the world's most powerful legislature? Two new U.S. representatives are teaming up with CNN.com to report their "Freshman Year" experience through videos and commentaries.
Sen. John McCain played offense against Sen. Barack Obama during much of the final presidential debate as he challenged his rival on his policies, judgment and character.
Both John McCain and Barack Obama are campaigning hard to swing votes in battleground states.
Schools, under pressure to boost student achievement, are offering incentives -- field trips and cash, for example -- to motivate students
Washington's mayor plays a recording of a social worker's call after visiting a house where four girls were found dead.
President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush announced Thursday that their daughter Jenna is engaged to Henry Hager of Virginia
Have you ever used what you learned in high school to get a job? Ask the graduates of Central Educational Center in Coweta County, Georgia, and you'll likely get a resounding "yes."
Students at the West Atlanta Young Scholars Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, are expected to go to college.
The idea behind one of the most innovative and influential philanthropic organizations of our time sprang from one of the more boneheaded macroeconomic calls ever made on Wall Street. Or as hedge f...
Across the nation, on the Web and in the home, classrooms are evolving beyond the traditional learning environment with alternatives that are no longer bound by geography and customary modes of operation.
It's nearly noon, and 11-year-old student Elisheva Ben-Avraham is just now thinking about breakfast. She's curled up on her family's velvety brown sofa flipping through a book of math problems when the mood strikes. She pulls her bare feet out from underneath her, pads to the kitchen and comes back, pancakes in hand, to her workbook.
The cheerleading squad and the math team rarely compete for members at most middle schools, but at Fulton Science Academy, they are often second choices to the Chess Club.
Like all dads, Dedrick Briggs, 36, wants the best education for his kids. But the public schools in Nashville are in tough shape: 68% of them don't meet standards set by the federal No Child Left B...
The idea sprang fully formed from Chris Whittle's mind about a decade ago, and it was a stunner: transform public education in America with a chain of 1,000 or more for-profit, privately run gramma...
One of the more painful lessons learned by investors over the past year has been that earnings do matter. Every sickening plunge in the indexes seems to be instructing people to focus on profits in...
We're all familiar with Michael Milken the junk bond king and symbol of the anything-goes, boom-and-bust '80s on Wall Street. Then there's Milken the philanthropist, busily repairing his reputation...
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