Obama administration appoints radical homosexual to Department of Education. Kevin Jennings, a homosexual activist who worked to create "safe spaces" for gay students at schools, has been appointed by the Obama administration to be assistant deputy secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools inside the Department of Education.
46 states and the District of Columbia will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation, an unprecedented step toward a uniform definition of schools.
Secretary Duncan said American schools should be open six days a week, at least 11 months a year. "I fundamentally think that our school day is too short, our school week is too short and our school year is too short." "You're competing for jobs with kids from India and China. I think schools should be open six, seven days a week; 11, 12 months a year," Duncan said.
Gavin says he wore the kilt twice in the past two weeks to Rocky Mountain Junior High as a prop for an art project. Jessop told the boy that the outfit could be misconstrued as cross-dressing.
The Tolleson Police Department and Tolleson Elementary School District held a community meeting at Arizona Desert Elementary School, where Officer Ray Granillo shot himself in his right middle finger during early dismissal last week.
5 years later, the same Val Edrington who embraced John Singer and tearfully thanked him for saving the life of his son would call for Singer to be murdered under color of "law" for the supposed crime of protecting his own children from the
When a Fairfax County mother got an urgent call from school last month reporting that her teenage daughter was caught popping a pill at lunchtime, she did not panic. "It was probably her birth-control pill," she thought. She was right. Her
The program, run by the Association of Chief Police Officers, asks teachers, parents and other community figures to be vigilant for signs that may indicate an attraction to extreme views or susceptibility to being "groomed" by radicalizers.
School officials were not wild about the idea, but Pocatello High School Principal Don Cotant relented after Harrison explained the advertisements could help illuminate such topics as the Great Depression.
Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on — black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt — the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade.
A former University of Colorado professor, assailed for likening Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi leader and fired for alleged plagiarism, testified in court Monday that the 2001 terrorist attacks were "perfectly predictable."
An 8th-grader has been suspended from riding the school bus for 3 days after being accused of passing gas. "Jonathan passes gas on the bus to make the other children laugh and it is so stink [sic] that you can't breathe after he does it,
The principal & other staff at South Oak Cliff High School were supposed to be breaking up fights. Instead, they sent troubled students into a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room to battle it out with bare fists and no head protection, reco
The State Department of Education estimates that preliminary notices will be given to 26,500 teachers by the Sunday cutoff. An additional 15,000 bus drivers, janitors, secretaries and administrators are also expected to receive the written warnings.
3 administrators at Porter Middle School have been reassigned for allegedly asking a boy to buy marijuana as part of an informal sting operation against another student.
LAPD is investigating both the alleged marijuana supplier and the administrato
A 15-YEAR-old schoolgirl in England earned £14,000 over 2 months by working as a prostitute. Her unusual weekend job was exposed when a teacher at her school found condoms, lubricant and details of the agency she worked for in her bag.
A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl who refused to stop texting during a high school math class was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct...after she ignored a teacher's demand that she cease texting. The girl was frisked by a female cop.
A father allegedly shot his 9-year-old son in the buttocks with a BB gun, a revelation that came to light after the boy wrote a school essay about the incident: The "painful afternoon my Dad shot me with a BB gun." The teacher turned the es
A full federal appeals court has declined to reconsider a three-judge panel’s ruling that upheld most of a Florida law requiring public school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance each day.
During the last school year, the district spent almost half a million dollars on fire guards. The fire watchers are uncertified, unarmed with fire-fighting equipment and according to parents, often unaware.
Some assistant principal began to scream at me. Her face turned a deep purple red. "How dare you do this! You have destroyed the entire curriculum for the month of June. I have no idea how I will explain to the teacher when she comes back,"
Duncan's belief in offering a key role in public education to the military. Chicago's school system is currently the most militarized in the country, boasting five military academies, nearly three dozen smaller Junior Reserve Officer Training