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Chronic Absenteeism Hurts Millions Of Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: School Attendance, Education News, Poverty, Education Poverty, Student Dropout Rate, Robert Balfanz, New York City Schools, Chronic Absenteeism, Education, Poverty and Education, Education Department, Education and Poverty, Dropout Crisis, Dropout Rate, Las Vegas Schools, Get Schooled, Baltimore Schools, Education News

Danet Robaina-Cline, an attendance counselor at Chaparral High, considers her school lucky. Like other schools in Las Vegas, a city reeling from th...

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Advocates Seek To Reduce Student Suspensions By Axing 'Willful Defiance' Charge

AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Student Behavior, Willful Defiance, Los Angeles Schools, Student Suspensions, Student Misconduct, California Schools, South Los Angeles Community Coalition, Student Conduct, Baltimore Schools, Video, Education News

LOS ANGELES -- School suspensions were once reserved for serious offenses including fighting and bringing weapons or drugs on campus. But these days t...

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Teacher Stole Lunch Money From 2nd Grade Student, Baltimore Mother Claims

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Video, School Lunch Money, Teacher Stole Student's Lunch Money, Brown Bag Lunch, School Lunches, School Lunch, Lunch Money, Baltimore Schools, Education News

The mother of a second-grade student in Baltimore, Md. has filed a lawsuit claiming that her son's teacher at Gwynn Falls Elementary School assaulted ...

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WATCH: Arne Duncan 'Stunned' By Atlanta Cheating Scandal

Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Standardized Test Cheating, Atlanta Public Schools, Standardized-Test-Cheating, Arne Duncan, Baltimore, Cheating Scandals, Atlanta Cheating, Standardized Testing, Baltimore Schools, Test Cheating, Video, Education News

In a video interview Wednesday with 11Alive News, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said he was "stunned" when he learned of the teacher cheatin...

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WATCH: Baltimore School Holds Prayer Service For Good Test Scores

Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Baltimore Schools, Aclu, Tench Tilghman Elementary/Middle School, Prayer in School, Prayer, Religion in School, Children, Standardized Testing, Education News

One Baltimore public school has pulled out all the stops when it comes to shooting for good test scores: It's turned to divine intervention. Dozens o...

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Andres Alonso: The Man Behind Baltimore Schools' Transformation

The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education Reform, Baltimore Schools, Baltimore Public Schools, Andres Alonso, Education News

BALTIMORE -- For years, this city had one of the worst school systems in the country. Fewer than half its students graduated, enrollment had fallen pr...

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Baltimore Task Force Pushes For $2.8B For Neglected Schools Needing Heat

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baltimore, Baltimore Schools, Urban Schools, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Andres Alonso, Video, Education News

While one school in Baltimore may be debating how to best spend $40M on a beautiful new building, other inner city schools are in desperate need of ba...

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