School Survival

Yakima's A.C. Davis High's production of The Laramie Project has been canceled, because the play "could be perceived as promoting homosexuality.""We'd brought it up in the meetings...there might be issues we never really expected it was going to be the school district," said drama club president and Davis senior Kristie Prescott. Prescott and several drama […]

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A suburban school superintendent says he was only trying to be funny when he took videotaped interviews with his new teachers, spliced in his own gag questions and made the faculty members look like killers, strippers and drug users.Now he could lose his job."How do you like to unwind?" Bremen High […]

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) -- The city's school district took the unusual step of canceling Monday's classes for all 6,700 students because vandals trashed the city's school bus fleet twice during the weekend.The shutdown was intended to give police time to investigate all 50 buses for damage and evidence that could lead to the perpetrators, district […]

As another reminder of attempts to take educational choices out of the hands of parents, legislation has been introduced in Congress proposing to amend the U.S. Constitution to make public education a "right."House Joint Resolution 29, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., (D-Illinois) in 2005, is eerily similar to language in the United […]

The best times in Karen Brown's house are when her children don't have homework."They're happier. They're more rested," said the Louisville parent of a middle schooler and a high schooler. "They have that fun, creative time."Though not a fan of homework, she said she understands why schools pressured to perform are assigning it. She doesn't […]

Imagine an America in which school officials could strip search every student in their school based on the unsubstantiated tip that one of them might have a joint. Congress is voting on a bill Tuesday or Wednesday that could make these police state tactics more common.We can stop Congress in its tracks, though. Call your […]

MARION, Ind. -- A school recently suspended four eighth-grade girls because they wore identical outfits on the same day, some of the girls and their parents said.Two of the girls, Dacia Small and Mindy Ellis, said McCulloch Middle School officials incorrectly branded them as gang members because of the outfits. The four received a five-day […]

COLUMBUS, Ga. - Police have arrested the mother and two cousins of a pregnant 16-year-old who are accused of forcing the teen to drink turpentine in an attempt to induce an abortion.Rozelletta B. Blackshire, 44, was charged with criminal abortion and first-degree cruelty to children, Columbus Police Sgt. Debra Bohannon said. The teen's cousins, Shonda […]

In Ohio, one teacher had enough and set out for revenge against her school students - and her bosses.The teacher happened to be the yearbook advisor and she quietly paid to take out an ad in the yearbook and published her own "report card" as she walked out the door to retirement. There is little […]

Students for Sensible Drug Policy is asking for your help to stop a bill that would further curtail the rights of students in public schools all across the country. The so-called "Student and Teacher Safety Act of 2006" (H.R. 5295) would make it easier for teachers and school administrators to search students' lockers and bags […]