“In America, higher education cannot be a luxury,” President Obama said in his weekly address.
Continue Reading →Teachers hurled insults like “bastard,” ”tard,” ”damn dumb” and “a hippo in a ballerina suit.” A bus driver threatened to slap one child, while a bus monitor told another, “Shut up, you little dog.”
Continue Reading →Most of the dozen states that have already gotten wiggle room from the No Child Left Behind Act don’t have very good plans in place when it comes to a key piece of the U.S. Department of Education’s requirements for turning around low-performing scho…
Continue Reading →ST. JOHNS, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Rick Scott, using a top-rated elementary school in suburban Jacksonville as a backdrop, signed the state’s $69.9 billion budget into law Tuesday.
Before the signing, the Republican governor also vetoed $142.7 million by…
By Rob Shaw, Tampa Tribune , Fla. (MCT)
Tampa, Fla.
Four years ago, the Hillsborough County school district promised to pay the college tuition and book costs of high school students who pledged to return to inner-city schools to teach one day.
To da…
By Rob Shaw, Tampa Tribune , Fla. (MCT)
Tampa, Fla.
Four years ago, the Hillsborough County school district promised to pay the college tuition and book costs of high school students who pledged to return to inner-city schools to teach one day.
To da…
By Rob Shaw, Tampa Tribune , Fla. (MCT)
Tampa, Fla.
Four years ago, the Hillsborough County school district promised to pay the college tuition and book costs of high school students who pledged to return to inner-city schools to teach one day.
To da…
By Rob Shaw, Tampa Tribune , Fla. (MCT)
Tampa, Fla.
Four years ago, the Hillsborough County school district promised to pay the college tuition and book costs of high school students who pledged to return to inner-city schools to teach one day.
To da…
By Rob Shaw, Tampa Tribune , Fla. (MCT)
Tampa, Fla.
Four years ago, the Hillsborough County school district promised to pay the college tuition and book costs of high school students who pledged to return to inner-city schools to teach one day.
To da…
Michael M. Krop Senior High School students carry signs and chant during a rally demanding justice for Trayvon Martin on March 23 in Miami Gardens, Fla.
—Alan Diaz/AP
By Jeffrey P. Carpenter and Scott Weathers
Teachers, stop what you are doing and…