Posts Tagged ‘school-district’
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When bad weather hits this winter, students in a rural western Ohio school district will hit their home computers as part of an experiment. With the Ohio Department of Education looking on, the Mississinawa Valley Schools in Darke County will try to replace days off for snow and other inclement weather with online learning. Department officials say the test could help the state determine the future of calamity days.
TORRANCE, Calif. – Officials say portable cooking equipment has exploded in a Southern California classroom, sending 10 high school students to the hospital. Officials told the Daily Breeze that four of the injured teens at North High School in Torrance were seriously hurt in the Friday afternoon blast.
SAN ANTONIO – A woman believed to be the mother of a Texas seventh-grade volleyball player pulled a gun on a rival team celebrating a lopsided win over her daughter’s outmatched squad, officials said Friday. Girls on the Kirby Middle School volleyball team fled when the woman confronted them with a gun Thursday night in the parking lot and threatened to shoot, Judson school district spokesman James Keith said. No shots were fired and no one was injured
Two years of cuts in state support saddled the Natomas Unified School District in Sacramento this spring with what school board president B. Teri Burns calls “horribly painful” choices: fewer teachers and larger classes, or keeping teachers but cutting athletics, counseling and after-school programs.
WASHINGTON — Nearly 1 million homeless students attended public schools in 2008-09, a 41% increase over the previous two years and another sign of how broadly the economic recession has struck America. The numbers, based on federal data, were released Tuesday by groups advocating for more federal aid for struggling families.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. – The superintendent of a Massachusetts school district is apologizing to parents for what she calls a misunderstanding over a condom availability policy.
LOS ANGELES — When state budget cuts imperiled city schools, a group of parents fought back by enlisting Hollywood stars to spread a message targeting one of their own, Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar . The satirical video featuring actors Megan Fox and fiancee Brian Austin Green highlights how funding shortfalls have killed jobs for librarians, nurses, translators, janitors and teachers.
LOS ANGELES — As recently as 2008, Locke High School here was one of the nation’s worst failing schools, and drew national attention for its hallway beatings, bathroom rapes and rooftop parties held by gangs.