John Covington

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School Stops Serving Lunch To Punish Students For Food Fight

Posted 11.06.2012 | Home

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Detroit's McLeod Bethune Elementary-Middle School decided to stop serving lunch to sixth through eighth graders for a week after a food fight broke ou...

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Kansas City Schools Slammed With Lawsuit Over Transfers

Posted 02.27.2012 | Home

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Five suburban school districts have filed suit to stop student transfers from Kansas City Public Schools to their districts until various issues like ...

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More Charters And School Closures To Come In Detroit, Roy Roberts Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.28.2011 | Home

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NEW YORK -- Roy Roberts, a former GM executive, says his first few months on the job as emergency manager of Detroit's public schools have been "like ...

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Recovery Schools Chief Defends Record In Kansas City

The Detroit News | Jennifer Chambers | Posted 11.22.2011 | Home

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The new leader of a Michigan recovery system for failing schools defended his record in Kansas City on Wednesday, a day after the district he used to ...

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Schools Lose Accreditation After Years Of Failing To Meet Standards

AP | By CHRIS BLANK | Posted 11.21.2011 | Home

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri education officials revoked the accreditation of the Kansas City School District on Tuesday after it failed for severa...

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Education Secretary 'Optimistic' About Detroit's Schools

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.08.2011 | Home

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DETROIT -- U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave the Motor City a homework assignment Thursday. "Can Detroit become the fastest-improving ur...

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Can John Covington Save Detroit's Schools?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.01.2011 | Home

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When appointing John Covington chancellor of Michigan's Education Achievement System, a plan to transform low-performing schools that will pilot in De...

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Kansas City Schools Chief's Departure Involves A Swirl Of Ethical Allegations, Profanity [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.25.2011 | Home

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The abrupt departure of John Covington from his post as superintendent of Kansas City, Missouri's schools reveals how interpersonal disputes between s...

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