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Delaware bans colleges from requiring students’ social media passwords
Should a university be able to edit a student’s Facebook profile or check his private tweets? Absolutely not, said the Delaware state legislature, as it recently passed the first state…
Lawmakers at odds over cuts in food stamps, school lunch program
A bill to overhaul the nation’s nutrition and farm program, as currently drafted, would cut spending by $35 billion over the next 10 years and make nearly 300,000 children ineligible…
Could NCLB waivers offer a roadmap to reauthorization?
Granting states waivers from the most stringent requirements of NCLB has brought a level of creativity to education reform that was unexpected when the Obama administration opened the waiver process…
Texas Republican Party calls for abstinence-only sex ed, corporal punishment in schools
Early this month, Texas Republican delegates met in Fort Worth to approve their 2012 platform, notable parts of which take aim at the state's education system, The Huffington Post reports.…
Has Title IX, now 40 years old, harmed male athletics?
A new report on Title IX, the landmark civil rights law passed 40 years ago that barred gender discrimination in education for all students, says that a great deal of…
Lawmakers reject color-coded student IDs by test score
California lawmakers have voted to prohibit a controversial practice by Kennedy and Cypress High Schools that required students to carry color-coded ID cards and notebooks based on their standardized test…
Obama proposal to raise dropout age falls flat
President Barack Obama's call for states to raise the minimum age at which students can drop out of high school seems about as popular as a homework assignment on Friday…
School schedules get a makeover from coast to coast
Driven by budget woes, a desire to boost tourism, or a determination help low-performing schools, many states are contemplating changes in the amount of time their students spend in class.…
Ill. lawmakers vote to abolish tuition waiver perk
After years of bad publicity over cronyism and clout, the Illinois Legislature has voted to end a longstanding program that allowed each lawmaker to hand out taxpayer-funded college tuition waivers…