‘It becomes a power struggle’: How private schools are taking on entitled parents

Crackdown on unregistered private schools, academies

Crackdown on unregistered private schools, academies

Farage and Trump have a vicious trick to deceive voters – and it’s working

James O'Brien: The Right is waging a war on education and it's making the working class vote against their own interest

Jan Resseger: Privatization Causes Catastrophic Damage to Public Schools

Jan Resseger, stalwart champion of public schools, is alarmed by the damage that privatization inflicts on public schools, attended by the vast majority of children. She describes the erosion of public schools as “a national wave of educational injustice that has reached crisis proportions.” Resseger writes: On Monday, the Network for Public Education (NPE) released []

Wonder Kutor calls on government to review the ‘No Fees Stress’ policy

Wonder Victor Kutor, Esq., Board Chairman of VRA International Schools Ltd, has called on the government to review its “No Fees Stress” policy, arguing that parents who can afford to buy luxury vehicles and other expensive gifts for their children after Senior High School should not benefit from state-funded tertiary education support. According to Mr. []

Tories accuse Phillipson of 'vindictive class war' over private school tax, after family's 900% profit on council house revealed

Tories accuse Phillipson of 'vindictive class war' over private school tax, after family's 900% profit on council house revealed

Big schooling unions are digging a deeper hole. What else is new?

America’s big schooling unions have long wielded outsize influence over politicians at every level of government, and nowhere is that more apparent than in their coordinated campaign against the Education Freedom Tax Credit. Rather than engage the merits of a policy that would expand opportunity for millions of students, in public and private schools, the []

Parents outraged by lack of school guidelines during heatwave: 'We've had to scramble to make childcare arrangements'

As classroom conditions worsen, parents have tried to adapt by working from home, taking time off or relying on other adults for help. All have criticized the authorities' lack of preparation and have expressed concern for the years ahead.

家长与校方支持恢复体罚 强调须设严格规范

随着国会近期掀起恢复学校体罚的讨论部分家长与校方代表公开表示支持但强调必须在严格规范下执行确保学生身心健康不受伤害 根据The Vibes报道两名小学生的父亲诺阿兹里指出当今教育体系在管控学生纪律方面面临“严峻挑战”包括逃学不尊重师长甚至霸凌等问题日益严重

'Patchwork measures': MP Marc Goergen pushes for shift in control of primary schools to national level

On Thursday, Pirates' Marc Goergen argued that primary schools should be lifted into the national remit, called for paid leave during heatwaves and welcomed the recent tripartite package, while floating a cap on the index for high earners.

Do Vague State Education Standards Open the Door to Classroom Activism?

Do Vague State Education Standards Open the Door to Classroom Activism?

Indecent “sign-out” behaviours: Parents knock unruly conduct

Teachers have been handicapped in disciplining students by government policies and societal tendencies. We have lost our value system and the centre can no longer hold The post Indecent “sign-out” behaviours: Parents knock unruly conduct appeared first on Vanguard News.

शिक्षा तथा खेलकुद मन्त्रालयको सल्लाहकारमा झा नियुक्त

काठमाडौँ। शिक्षा तथा खेलकुद मन्त्रालयको सल्लाहकारमा शैलेन्द्र झा नियुक्त भएका छन्। शिक्षा, प्रविधि, सार्वजनिक नीति तथा शैक्षिक नवप्रवर्तनका क्षेत्रमा अनुभवी झा शिक्षा प्रणाली सुधार, नीति निर्माण, युवा सशक्तीकरण र प्रविधिमैत्री शिक्षाको क्षेत्रमा सक्रिय छन्। उनको नियुक्तिलाई मन्त्रालयको नीतिगत तथा संस्थागत सुधारमा महत्त्वपूर्ण कदमका रूपमा हेरिएको छ। यसअघि झा काठमाडौँ महानगरपालिकाको सहरी योजना आयोगमा शिक्षा, प्रविधि []

Lower suspensions, but no clear system for discipline in private schools

Lower suspensions, but no clear system for discipline in private schools

Gov. Landry, Legislative Leaders Push Back on Teacher Stipend Plan Opposition

Gov. Jeff Landry and legislative leaders are pushing back on claims from public school leaders that the governor’s plan to pay for teacher stipends with school operations funds would hurt public education across Louisiana. The governor announced a tweak Monday to his original proposal that would allow school districts already giving pay increases to teachers []

Fairfax County Schools in VA Sued for Allegedly Hiding Student Gender Transitions From Parents

“FCPS was given an opportunity to correct its anti-parent policies” The post Fairfax County Schools in VA Sued for Allegedly Hiding Student Gender Transitions From Parents first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

Israel's Education Minister to restrict protests, freedom of expression in Israeli universities

The move, at the demand of Education Minister Yoav Kisch, prohibits institutions from taking a political stance or striking; their heads will be barred from expressing political views, and students and lecturers will be able to express themselves 'only privately'

A Democrat-on-Democrat Showdown Is Erupting Over Chicago’s Schools – Wall Street Journal

The battle between a billionaire and the teachers union mirrors wider power struggles within the party.

Saqib Bhatti: China’s influence in our independent schools sector should be treated as a national security threat

Our independent schools are the cornerstone of an internationally respected schooling system. If we continue to treat our educational heritage as expendable, then we risk losing more than just historic buildings. We risk losing sovereignty over how our children are educated. The post Saqib Bhatti: China’s influence in our independent schools sector should be treated as a national security threat appeared first on Conservative Home.

Local stories show demand for change in school patronage

Here, our Education Correspondent Emma O Kelly takes a look at the key takeaways from the survey on school patronage and the realities facing schools which may wish to change to multi-denominational.

AI Is Overhauling the Way Professors Teach. Here's How.

Embrace it or reject it, the tool is forcing faculty to change the way they teach.By Beth McMurtrie For both adopters and resisters, the disruption is huge.

A ‘coherent, modernised governance framework is urgently required’ for NI schools, Audit Office warns

Locals schools set-up ‘complex and historically fragmented’ leading to little consistency in how schools manage public funds

America’s Anti-American Public Schools Are Destroying What The Declaration Gave Us

America’s substandard, anti-American schools are our greatest enemy.

Florida’s Stop WOKE act struck down for colleges on appeal

Tuesday’s ruling called the state’s attempt to limit classroom discussion a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse.

Opinion: Ending Child Marriage by Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Exploitation

Child and women's rights are inseparable: poverty, gender bias and social norms fuel child marriage and dowry, robbing girls of education and agency

The Supreme Court Just Told California: Parents Have Rights. Deal With It.

Yesterday in Mirabelli v. Bonta, the Supreme Court put on hold California’s law requiring public schools to secretly transition children without their parents’ knowledge. The state had adopted policies directing public schools to socially transition children to a different gender identity—using different names and pronouns—without ever telling their parents. Not only were mom and dad kept []READ MORE

Jewish day school system needs more high-quality teachers, Prizmah head says

“The teachers we have, we don’t respect and support in the way that they deserve,” Paul Bernstein told JNS. “If we’re successful and we grow enrollment, that problem only gets bigger.”

LA school district faces insolvency within a year, officials say

The Los Angeles Unified School District could run out of money within about a year and is showing severe signs of financial distress, according to county education authorities. The nation’s second-largest school district, which serves more than half a million students, faces possible insolvency, prompting the Los Angeles County Office of Education to take action. []...Click to read more

Parents and elected school boards

People assume that school board politics is above municipal, provincial, and federal politics. That is not so. Actually, the world of politics in education works at a lower level than any other organization in our society. Why is that?

[OPINION] Beyond blame: Building schools that see, listen, and care

The Tacloban tragedy and the crisis of care in Philippine education

Supreme Court to review parents’ challenge to law regarding notification of gender transitions

The parents argue that their right to direct the upbringing of their children is in jeopardy. The state continues to defend the law. [...]

‘I was one of those children’: Utah revokes license of the boarding school where Paris Hilton says she was abused

State cites years of noncompliance, including inadequate staffing and neglect; school must terminate services by Aug. 6.

Asian Parents Ask Court to Revisit Montgomery County ‘Racial Balancing’

By Sean Salai (The Washington Times) Asian parents in Montgomery County are asking the Supreme Court to hear their argument that the public schools sy...

I Ran Arizona’s ESA Program. Here’s What the Critics Won’t Tell You.

I ran Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account Program as its executive director, and I am here to tell you that the public conversation about this program is missing something critical: the truth about how it actually works. You have heard the claims of school choice opponents: fraud, waste, lack of accountability. What you have not heard...