Posts Tagged ‘daughter’

WILMINGTON, Del. — The U.S. Department of Education ‘s office of civil rights is investigating whether black male students are punished disproportionately in the Christina School District in Wilmington and Newark , one of five districts nationwide under scrutiny for its discipline record.

Sunday, October 17th, 2010 at 08:41 0 comments

SANFORD, Fla.

Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 21:52 0 comments

SAN ANTONIO – A Texas mother who witnesses said pulled a gun on a seventh-grade volleyball team that badly beat her daughter’s team told police she merely waved her finger and never threatened the children, officials said Friday. The Judson school district initially said witnesses reported that an angry mother brandished a gun at middle school students as they celebrated a lopsided win over her daughter’s team. But a search of the woman’s house turned up no gun, and the district acknowledged inconsistencies in the witnesses’ allegations.

Saturday, September 11th, 2010 at 08:20 0 comments

IOWA CITY — The hour when Ariana Kramer will begin her college career is fast approaching — and her parents are in an office supply store, disagreeing about hanging files, of all things. “She’ll need them,” her mother says. “I don’t think so,” her dad counters

Sunday, September 5th, 2010 at 14:19 0 comments

JACKSON, Miss. – A policy designed to achieve racial equality at a north Mississippi school has long meant that only white kids can run for some class offices one year, black kids the next.

Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 21:48 0 comments

Los Angeles – The daughter of a lesbian couple, married legally in Canada, was denied admission by a private school outside of Dallas. FoxNews.com reports that Jill and Tracy Harrison attempted to enroll their daughter Olivia at Bedford’s St. Vincent’s Episcopal School in Bedford.

Saturday, August 21st, 2010 at 16:59 0 comments

Related Times Topic: Michael Winerip Enlarge This Image Andy Manis for The New York Times â??After third grade there, I told my husband, Garner would go nowhere in life and the family would fall apart. We had to leave.â?? Beth Moss, on why the family moved from Tennessee to Madison

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 05:40 0 comments

Related Times Topic: Michael Winerip Enlarge This Image Andy Manis for The New York Times â??After third grade there, I told my husband, Garner would go nowhere in life and the family would fall apart. We had to leave.â?? Beth Moss, on why the family moved from Tennessee to Madison. MADISON, Wis.

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 05:40 0 comments

BURLINGTON, Vt. — It’s hard to find anyone here who believes that Joyce Irvine should have been removed as principal of Wheeler Elementary School. Related Times Topic: Michael Winerip John Mudasigana, one of many recent African refugees whose children attend the high-poverty school, says he is grateful for how Ms.

Monday, July 19th, 2010 at 06:01 0 comments

The girl’s parents, wild with outrage and fear, showed the principal the text messages : a dozen shocking, sexually explicit threats, sent to their daughter the previous Saturday night from the cellphone of a 12-year-old boy. Both children were sixth graders at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J. Poisoned Web The Educators’ Quandary This is the first in a series of articles on Internet bullying

Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 04:57 0 comments