Superintendent Tommy Byler presented a report to the Vermilion Parish School Board regarding the impact of the new charter school in the north Vermilion area on public schools. Byler informed the board members that around 600 students are expected to move from the public school system to the charter school. The construction of Vermilion Charter Academy, a kindergarten through eighth-grade school with a capacity of 900 students, is currently being built on Hwy. 92, located to the west of Maurice....
DPI chief Jill Underly has injected herself into local issues, campaigning for progressive candidates and propagandizing bomb threats.
Of all the ailments afflicting our public schools, few are worse than the dumbing down of students. This casts a pall on the country’s future, and this ominous cloud is cast by design. That’s why you can look at pretty much any state in the country, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress results are similar — […]
New doctors' interest in emergency medicine is rebounding after the field
If you are planning to make the Netherlands your home for a longer period, and want you children to grow up feeling at home with Dutch as a language as well, a new development by the American School of The Hague (ASH) could be exactly what you are looking for. From the coming academic year ASH will be offering a new learning initiative: the Dutch-English Dual Language Pathway, a groundbreaking programme providing students with the unique opportunity to develop proficiency
Americans have been sending lawmakers at all levels an unmistakable message that they are losing patience with an entrenched political class that looks increasingly like overlords instead of public servants.
Graduation ceremonies for Hawaii public schools this year will kick off with Radford High School’s commencement exercises on May 17 at Waikiki Shell, and end with Kaimuki High School’s graduation on May 31 at the same venue.
Mount Shasta High School students are in the spotlight. High school members of Mount Shasta Rotary Club who just returned from Panama, where they served one town for a week. Although the trip was only seven days, the participants raised money for over seven months leading up to the trip. The Rotary members rebuilt a […]
The Greater Essex County District School Board said Thursday it has a new tentative agreement with the union representing its occasional teachers, who have been working without a contract for the last two years. “This tentative agreement was arrived at through a collaborative, interest-based bargaining process and represents the best possible outcome for both parties,” […]
Nex Benedict was kind of a weird kid. I know because the moment that I first learned who Nex was I also knew that we would have been friends. Like Nex, at 16, I was a pissed off metalhead with a weird sense of humor and a bad temper who ferociously defended the few outsiders More
California is closer to requiring financial literacy courses for public school children.
Gov. Kathy Hochul proposes to increase public-school funding by $825 million next year.