News Briefs
North Carolina’s community college system last week began turning away undocumented immigrants wanting to enroll in credit-bearing classes.
May 20, 2008
Larger expenditures on regular classroom instruction do lead to better performance, with higher teacher compensation showing the single largest effect, a study finds.
April 22, 2008
Voters in Houston narrowly approved an $805 million bond issue last week that will pay for building 24 new schools, renovating 134 others, and upgrading safety and security in all schools.
November 13, 2007
School board members say they need more time to debate a policy that aims to minimize the concentration of poor students in one school.
October 16, 2007
Teachers in the Tar Heel State will get a 5 percent salary increase, and $70 million will be set aside for bonuses for educators in schools that meet or exceed state targets for student achievement.
August 14, 2007
A dispute over plans to use year-round schooling to ease student overcrowding has boiled over into the courts.
April 3, 2007
A new report surveys the use of students’ socioeconomic status in pursuit of diverse and high-achieving school populations in a dozen school districts.
July 2, 2007
The 128,000-student district, which includes the city of Raleigh, is worried it won't have enough seats for all its students.
May 18, 2007
North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system got new leadership in August, but it wasn’t the superintendent or the school board. A civic group, Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education, was launched with the aim of becoming a major player in district policy.
November 28, 2006
Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.
November 14, 2006
