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Private failures

The Philadelphia School Reform Commission is removing outside managers of six public schools and putting the campuses back under the control of the city sc hool district, The Philadelphia Inquirer says. The six that are returning to district control are Gillespie, Harrity, Potter-Thomas, Stetson, Dunbar and Fitzsimons. The schools have repeatedly failed to meet state […]


Divorced from his job

Filed under: — Mike @ 3:15 pm

Kent Gramm, a professor at Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian liberal arts school in the suburbs of Chicago, has resigned effective the end of this semester, The New York Times says. Why? He’s getting divorced.
The school has everyone sign an agreement to uphold certain biblical standards of behavior, and divorce for reasons other […]


Back to school?

Filed under: — Mike @ 12:48 pm

Appellate panel of judges in California rules that parents do not have a constitutional right to home-school their children.


Charting a new course

In Washington, D.C., the Catholic Archdiocese says it wants to convert seven of its financially struggling schools to charter schools, The Washington Post says. Doing so would allow the schools to receive public funds to operate, but such a change also would require the schools to eliminate school prayer, religious instruction and religious symbols.
Would […]


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