Hits: 0A small food drive that started in Marin City to help school families during the coronavirus crisis has swelled in scope in just three…
Hits: 86NOTE: When comparing Ross Valley Charter (RVC) scores to Ross Valley School District (RVSD), it’s important to note that RVC has much greater diversity…
Hits: 40As the presidential primaries head toward states with more diverse populations, the battles between Democratic progressives and moderates obscure a point of unlikely agreement.…
Hits: 131 The power of educating the whole person. Almost everybody admires the Nordic model. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have high economic…
Hits: 41Public schools’ dependence on local property taxes means some districts get isolated from the financial resources in their communities. The Waterbury School District is…
Hits: 36Individualized Education Programs, or IEPs, are one of the greatest pitfalls of the country’s school system. I am in hell—or its equivalent. Specifically, I…
Documents reveal ‘extensive interactions’ between Boston Public Schools and ICE over student records
Hits: 44Just when you think Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) couldn’t stoop lower—hold your breath, they’ve done it again. Advocates are calling on Boston Public…
Hits: 56It’s been six years since California lawmakers revamped the state funding formula for local schools. It was heralded by then-Gov. Jerry Brown as a…
Hits: 40“We’re really lucky here. We have it better than most. Our parents are a force to be reckoned with.” That’s what my co-workers said…
Hits: 52100 Percent Is Overrated. People labeled “smart” at a young age don’t deal well with being wrong. Life grows stagnant. At whatever age smart…
Hits: 71From an article published in Informed Residents of Reading as a guide to help teachers deal with problem school administrators, these insights are equally…
Hits: 274Marin Voice, 11/9/2019 Editors Note: This Marin Voice article was taken down by the IJ after less than one day, and is not referenced…
Hits: 372“…The staff report on Red Hill was not clear on what funding source the district has identified to pay for the renovations, except to…
Hits: 100Education is filled with talk of “innovation.” The term gets indiscriminately attached to whatever school model, professional-development strategy, or community program is being pushed…
Hits: 108There’s a not-so-secret tension that separates frontline educators from ed reformers, policymakers, and even district office poobahs. This tension, and the cost of top-down…
Hits: 91Classes in Chicago’s public schools were canceled starting Oct. 17 as more than 25,000 teachers in the nation’s third-largest school district went on strike in what…
Hits: 58Over the past 30 to 40 years, enrollment in our local public schools has been a roller coaster. After years of seemingly building new…
Hits: 85NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was rebuffed by a local elementary school when it asked for student records. According to the school district,…
Hits: 121Gifted education puts in tension two equally treasured American ideals: egalitarianism and individualism. Over the summer, an education panel convened by Bill de Blasio…
Hits: 294ROCK among programs under scrutiny Plans to redesign, alter or dismantle four small teaching pods for ninth- and 10th-graders at Sir Francis Drake High…
Hits: 131A Marin IJ Editorial Ross Valley Charter School’s opening in the old St. Rita’s Church elementary school campus should be welcomed by both supporters…
Hits: 71“This is historic legislation that marks a new chapter of collaboration between charter and traditional schools in California,” Newsom, a Democrat, said in a…
Hits: 135Denying a teen a smartphone in 2019 is a tough decision, and one that requires an organized and impenetrable defense. My 14-year-old son just…
Hits: 93Texas School District Gives 4-Year-Old Boy Two Options: Either Cut Your Hair or Wear a Dress I don’t condone violence, but if ever there…
Hits: 241 The announcement of a compromise deal on charter public school-focused legislation, AB 1505, affirms that charter schools are here to stay as a…
Hits: 125 A new study finds that an increase in “splinter” school districts are leaving poor and nonwhite students behind. America’s schools are becoming increasingly segregated,…
Hits: 134 Communities around the country are creating new, whiter districts. When Penn State University professor Erica Frankenberg graduated from high school in Alabama, there…
Hits: 93When you move to Marin, your realtor negotiates a million-dollar mortgage and you’re essentially given a script: “It’s really hard for us to live…
Hits: 96 Explore the safest school districts serving your area. Ranking based on student and parent ratings of health and safety, area crime rates, and…
Hits: 87California’s teachers’ unions are seeing how far they can go to quash the state’s burgeoning charter-school movement now that Democrats have stronger legislative supermajorities…
Hits: 170Christina Laster made a special trip from Southern California up to the State Capitol Wednesday. The grandmother of a seven-year-old charter school student said…
Hits: 177A letter dated June 12, 2019, from Sharon Sagar, Board Chair of the RVC to Teri Louer with copies to the Superintendent and RVSD…
Hits: 216THE MOST enduring — and unforgivable — civil rights offense in our country today is the consigning of so many poor, often minority children…
Hits: 273Extra money for our kids? Not so much! It is recommended the Board authorize staff to engage Axia Architects, to create and submit plans…
Hits: 374“…Bagley said the district has responded to the union’s myriad requests by posting on its website the formal requests as well as the district’s answers.…