Bill could give federal oversight to private clinics for children and would require FDA inspectionsIn a move that could have implications for D.C.'s troubled special education system, a panel of lawmakers Wednesday passed sweeping legislation that gives federal authorities the right to inspect private children's clinics and schools.The bill would require the federal Department of […]
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Bill proposed to ban students from wearing bulletproof vests to school
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Legislators are considering a proposal to restrict kids from wearing bulletproof vests at school. A young man wearing a vest and carrying a gun approached a middle school in East Baton Rouge earlier this year. Sheriff's officials say they could not legally do enough to punish him, so they want […]
Schools want troops to turn into teachers
After 23 and a half years in the Navy, Stefan Smolski knew he wanted to retire. But he wanted to do something with the extra time in his life.So he decided to become a teacher."It was one of those things," he said. "Sooner or later I had to do something in the afterlife, and it […]
Why are public schools so bad at hiring good teachers?
PS 49 in Queens used to be an average school in New York City's decidedly below-average school system. That was before Anthony Lombardi moved into the principal's office. When Lombardi took charge in 1997, 37 percent of fourth graders read at grade level, compared with nearly 90 percent today; there have also been double-digit improvements […]
Call for more searches of pupils
Schools should have greater powers to search pupils, behaviour review says.Teachers should be able to search pupils to stop them bringing alcohol and drugs into school, says a review on tackling bad behaviour among pupils.Sir Alan Steer is to deliver proposals from his government-commissioned review of ways to improve discipline.Alcohol is identified as a growing […]
Warning over home alone children
Many parents could face prosecution for leaving their children home alone during the summer holidays, a children's charity has warned.The Children's Legal Centre is calling for clarification of existing law, which fails to specify at what age children can be left on their own.Parents who fall foul of the law can face up to 10 […]
Man dressed as penis disrupts graduation
By DENNIS YUSKO, Staff writerLast updated: 5:09 p.m., Thursday, June 26, 2008SARATOGA SPRINGS -- A 19-year-old man dressed as a penis was arrested for disturbing a high school graduation today at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Calvin Morett of 337 Pyramid Pine Estates allegedly interrupted the Saratoga Springs High School graduation by marching across SPAC's […]
School exclusions 2,200 per day
More than 2,200 children in England are excluded from school every single school day, show official figures.The annual statistics, showing pupils removed for disruptive and bad behaviour, show short term exclusions have risen to 425,600.However permanent exclusions have fallen by 7% - down to 8,680.Children's Minister Kevin Brennan says that the fall in permanent exclusions […]
Student hacker who upped his grades faces 38 years in jail
It could be a long time before Omar Khan goes to college: as long as 38 years, according to Orange County prosecutors, who have arrested and charged the 18-year-old student with breaking into his prestigious high school and hacking into computers to change his test grades from Fs to As.If convicted on all 69 counts, […]
Students' laxative-spiked cake sends Brooklyn teachers to hospital
Teachers were thrilled when students at a Brooklyn high school sweetly offered them slices of homemade cake last week.But the innocent-looking treat contained a nasty surprise - it was laced with laxatives that sent two educators to the hospital and sickened three other staffers.Now, three seniors at the Brooklyn School for Global Studies in Cobble […]
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