MILITARY BASES OPEN THEIR DOORS TO HOME-SCHOOLERS
By KIMBERLY HEFLING In this photo taken Oct. 9, 2013, Channing Morgan, from left, Brooklyn Olds, and Grace Whittaker learn sign language during a lesson at a home schooling co-operative…
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LA. GOVERNOR DEMANDS FEDS DROP SUIT AGAINST STATE
By PHILIP ELLIOTT In this Aug. 30, 2013, photo, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando. Jindal on Wednesday,…
GREECE: SCHOOLS SHUT, PROTESTERS PEPPER SPRAYED
By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Striking teachers protest in Thessaloniki on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Thousands of school teachers and other civil servants held an afternoon demonstration to demand…
OKLA. SCHOOL CHANGES POLICY ON DREADLOCKS
This Sept. 8, 2013 photo shows Tiana Parker, 7, who was removed from the Deborah Brown Community School due to the school’s policy against her natural hairstyle, poses for a…
GREEK HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS TO STRIKE OVER JOB CUTS
By DEREK GATOPOULOS University administrative staff members chant slogans outside the Administrative Reform ministry in central Athens against austerity measures that threaten their jobs, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. The…
STUDY: WAIVERS LEAVE BEHIND AT-RISK STUDENTS
By PHILIP ELLIOTT FILE – In this April 30, 2013, file photo, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left, reads to preschool children at the Cross Cultural Family Center in San Francisco.…
MIDWEST HEAT WAVE PROMPTS EARLY SCHOOL DISMISSALS
By GRANT SCHULTE Five year-old Grace Kennedy cools off from the heat in a water fountain in Stinson Park in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. An unusual, late-summer heat…
GUARDS HELP ESCORT CHICAGO KIDS TO NEW SCHOOLS
By DON BABWIN Safety Guard Renee Green high-fives Demari Hill, 5, as she heads to Gresham Elementary School with her parents Destiny and Anthony Hill on her first day of…