2013年3月26日星期二

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News

Op-Ed: Watching Our Chicago Schools Close Is ‘Like Being Stuck in a Bad Dream’

Posted: 26 Mar 2013 03:16 PM PDT

Watching the Chicago Public Schools play fast and loose with children's safety and learning, as well as with the supposed reasons for all of this, has been like being stuck in a bad dream where students, teachers, schools, and communities are the peas in an endless series of shell games. 

Ind. school voucher ruling could influence others

Posted: 26 Mar 2013 03:05 PM PDT

In a Monday, March 11, 2013 photo, supporters of Indiana's charter school and private school voucher programs rally at the Statehouse where they heard from Republican Gov. Mike Pence. The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 upheld the law creating the nation's broadest school voucher program, clearing the way for a possible expansion. In a 5-0 vote, the justices rejected claims that the law primarily benefited religious institutions that run private schools and accepted arguments that it gave families choice and allowed parents to determine where the money went. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star,Doug McSchooler) NO SALESINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the nation's broadest school voucher program in a ruling supporters say could set a national precedent as other states look to build or expand programs that use public money to allow students to attend private schools.

Indiana court upholds broadest school voucher program

Posted: 26 Mar 2013 10:31 AM PDT

By Stephanie Simon (Reuters) - The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld the nation's broadest school voucher program, which gives poor and middle-class families public funds to help pay private school tuition. Opponents, including the state teachers' union, had sued to block the program on grounds that nearly all the voucher money has been directed to religious schools. Voucher systems have drawn criticism across the United States from critics who say they drain money from public schools and subsidize overtly religious education. ...

Apparently UNC Thinks 'Rape Is Like Football'

Posted: 26 Mar 2013 09:08 AM PDT

"She told me rape is like football, and if you look back on the game what would you have done differently in that situation," one of the women who filed a federal complaint with the Department of Education against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill told ... wait — what?

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