Keyword "board of education" - List of latest news (22 results)

04:19 California school board members accused of antisemitism during contentious meeting

The ADL demands an apology from a California school board after two members made antisemitic comments during a meeting on ethnic studies.

20/02 Over half of the municipalities in Okinawa Prefecture will raise prices for junior high school lunch fees next year

A survey by the prefectural board of education has found that more than half of the municipalities in Okinawa Prefecture plan to raise prices for junior high school lunches next year. In a question about the prefectural assembly representative on the 19th, Superintendent of Education Hanmine Mitsuru answered Matayoshi Kiyoyoshi (LDP/Unaffiliated). The selling price of rice polishing for school lun

10/01 Tochigi Prefectural High School's full-time enrollment ratio increases to 1.08 times Career preference survey

The results of the second survey conducted in December on third-year junior high school students in Tochigi Prefecture have been announced, and the ratio for full-time enrollment at prefectural high schools is 1.08. The Prefectural Board of Education conducts a career preference survey every October and December for third-year junior high school students in the prefecture, and last month's results

29/12 Illinois Board of Education to Use Nearly $20 Million in Federal Grants on Electric School Buses

Nine Illinois school districts will receive millions in federal grant dollars to buy electric school buses to replace gas-powered ones.

20/11 Kamakura City sues architect for miscalculation but loses Seismic diagnosis of Lifelong Learning Center

In a lawsuit in which Kamakura City sought damages from an architect for making mistakes in structural calculations during an earthquake resistance diagnosis of the Kamakura Lifelong Learning Center (Komachi, Kamakura City), the Yokohama District Court ruled against the city's claim that there were no problems with the calculation results at the time. It was learned on the 20th that the applicatio

15/11 Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges remembers the day she desegregated New Orleans school

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited Topeka to commemorate the anniversary of the day she desegregated a school in the Deep South.

21/09 Eight children at an elementary school in Kawasaki suffer from nausea and headaches during a science experiment and go home after seeking medical attention

The Kawasaki City Board of Education announced on the 20th that eight sixth-grade students at Municipal Yurioka Elementary School (in the city's Asao Ward) complained of feeling unwell, including nausea and headaches, during a science experiment. Five people went to medical institutions, but all recovered the same day and went home.

18/07 Demand from private schools that made parents rebel! Complaints are pouring in to the Ministry and CİMER

Despite the regulation of the Ministry of National Education (MEB) stating that textbooks distributed free of charge in private schools will be used; Private schools began to demand exorbitant book fees from parents, reaching up to 40-50 thousand TL, before the new academic year. Parents reacted to the situation and filed a complaint with the Ministry, the Directorate of National Education and CIM

13/06 West Virginia school official: Kids ‘sitting on’ chemical waste

A recent decision to close a high school in West Virginia prompted a protest by some of the parents. But the superintendent says it’s not safe for the kids to stay.

18/05 Biden focuses on Black voter outreach at WH and on campaign trail 

The White House has announced an unprecedented $16 billion investment for HBCUs.   

17/05 There's a surprising reason why many schools don't have a single Black teacher of color

Seventy years after Brown v. Board outlawed segregation in schools, there's a lingering imbalance in the teaching ranks, they lack educators of color.

21/04 US teacher charged after being accused of ‘inappropriately touching’ teen girl

A New Jersey middle school teacher has been charged days after she was publicly accused of inappropriately touching a 13-year-old female student – sparking outrage and bomb threats at the school.

06/03 In which classes and when will it be applied? Minister Tekin shared the details

Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin announced that the new curriculum will be implemented first in the 1st, 5th and 9th grades in the 2024-2025 academic year. Minister Tekin said, "80 percent of the work has been completed, it will be completed in the coming weeks. Implementation will begin gradually." he said.

05/03 Japanese school principal fired, loses $133K pension after getting caught stealing less than 50 cents worth of coffee

One person said: “He could have bought like 100,000 large coffees with those retirement benefits he lost.”

06/02 Supreme Court heads into uncharted, dangerous territory as it considers Trump insurrection case

With their upcoming decision concerning whether Donald Trump can appear on the Colorado ballot, Supreme Court justices face the possibility that the ruling could be ignored or defied by the public.

02/10 California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National

The fight over math in the Golden State’s public schools is likely to spread across the country.

26/09 The Origins of the Socialist Slur

Reconstruction-era opponents of racial equality popularized the charge that protecting civil rights would amount to the end of capitalism.

02/09 Two Documentaries on School Integration Offer New Views of an Old Problem

Premiering in September, the films take very different looks at what has and hasn’t changed in the almost 70 years since Brown v. Board of Education.

01/09 The Forgotten Teenage Trailblazer of Women’s Tennis

Before Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes,” Phyllis Graber wanted to play tennis on a boys’ team. The rules said she couldn’t.

24/07 Florida and DeSantis dig in as criticism of Black history curriculum mounts

The teaching standards have again thrust Florida and DeSantis into America’s politically polarized fight over how and what to teach children.

18/04 School Districts Took On Juul With A Novel Legal Strategy. Now They’re Going After Social Media Giants.

TikTok, Snap, Facebook, YouTube face lawsuits from nearly 50 school districts nationwide, with many more coming soon. But it’s not clear if they’ll be as successful as some past litigation has been.

13/01 Year 6 school trip ends at ’strip club’

A US school is under fire after allegedly bringing students to a restaurant with a stripper pole lounge — and supposedly threatening legal action against the trustee who exposed the scandal.