CEO, with no education background, to run NYC schools
Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Cathleen Black to head New York schools.
Resegregation opponents arrested in Raleigh
Nineteen protesters, including the Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, were arrested Tuesday in Raleigh at a school board meeting.
Teacher funding added to war spending bill
Lawmakers who want to prevent thousands of teacher layoffs but oppose spending more money on the war in Afghanistan face a dilemma in Congress this week.
Carolina NAACP head calls for civil disobedience to protest “resegregation”
RALEIGH, N.C. - William Barber II, state NAACP chairman, this week called for mass civil disobedience July 20 to protest moves to "resegregate" public education in Wake County.
Arizona takes another step backwards, critics say
Arizona has taken another step backwards, critics say, after Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a new bill May 11 that aims to ban ethnic studies in the state's schools.
New evidence surfaces on charter school scam
New evidence that charter schools provide inferior education but lucrative opportunities to scam the public has surfaced in a report issued Wednesday.
Chicago students walk out to protest education cuts
More than 500 high school students walked out of classrooms at public schools city wide to massive education budget cuts.
Megan Fox to governor, “Don’t terminate our teachers”
Megan Fox fights for public education in a great, new video.
Rallying for more schools, it's a Bronx cheer for Bloomberg
Bronx residents send a message to Bloomberg and the Department of Education: More schools!
Obama school plan has pluses but big minuses, teachers and others warn
The administration's education "blueprint" discards some of the No Child Left Behind law's much-criticized features, but keeps or adds others that teachers, their unions and other public school advocates oppose.
