WASHINGTON (AP) — Students defrauded by for-profit colleges scored an important victory on Tuesday, when a court cleared the way for an Obama-era policy that will make it easier for them to get their student loans forgiven. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had said the regulation, known as borrower defense, made discharging loans too easy and […]
The mother of one of the children spoke out.
A video shows school staff using excessive force on a Black high school student.
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — The relaxed new dress code at public schools in the small city of Alameda, across the bay from San Francisco, is intentionally specific: Midriff-baring shirts are acceptable attire, so are tank tops with spaghetti straps and other once-banned items like micro-mini skirts and short shorts. As students settle into the new […]
A Charter School in Georgia want’s the right to spank your children. If parents do not agree to having their children spanked, the child will be suspended for five days in place of the spanking. DL says, “that’s extortion.” He believes that you should not spank the child in the absence of love, so unless […]
Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving is one of several star athletes attending this semester’s “Crossover Into Business” course at Harvard Business School, si.com reports. Boston.com reported Irving is joined in the class by Denver Nuggets power forward Paul Millsap and former NFL tight end Martellus Bennett, among others. NBA forwards Chris Bosh and Caron Butler previously completed the program. As […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday that he is giving $2 billion to start a fund that will open preschools in low-income neighborhoods and give money to nonprofits that helps homeless families. Bezos, whose stake in Amazon is worth about $160 billion, says that he’ll call it the Bezos Day […]
A Smithville, Ohio, school resource officer was put on unpaid leave after allegedly using her taser to wake up a student who was sleeping during class reports News 5 Cleveland. The incident happened on Aug. 30 at Liberty Preparatory School. The male student, who is a junior, wouldn’t wake up for the teacher or Interim Principal […]
A Louisiana math teacher has been disciplined after she posted a racially charged post on Facebook shortly after Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ad. Valerie Scogin has been teaching at Slidell high school since 2008. “They don’t have to live in that country. They could go back,” Scogin posted. “But it was their own people selling them […]
Houston ISD is the fourth largest school district in the country and they were at risk of becoming the largest district to be taken over by the state. Roland Martin talks to HISD’s interim superintendent Dr. Grenita Lathan who says a program called Achieve 180 helped them turn it around. Achieve 180 is a research […]
For the seventh year Denny’s Hungry for Education Scholarship Program is partnering with the Tom Joyner Foundation. Denny’s President & CEO John Miller says over the years they have given away about $525,00 to 300 different scholarships or programs. According to Miller, “nearly 1 in 6 children goes hungry every day and sadly many of these […]
Alpharetta, GA — Middle School Chronicles book series author, 16-year old Essynce Moore, is the first teen to have her books in schools as a mandatory reading and a part of some schools’ curricula all around the world. Essynce’s books are becoming more and more popular with even teachers and students reaching out to Essynce in hopes to […]
