Success Academy, New York City’s booming—and at times controversial—network of charter schools, has been awarded the charter sector’s most prestigious prize. View full post on Education Week: Charter Schools #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Texas Doesn’t Keep Tabs on Improper Teacher Acts – Education Week
A newspaper investigation has found the Texas Education Agency doesn’t track if a teacher has been charged with or convicted of a crime. View full post on Education Week: Sexual Misconduct #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Betsy DeVos Calls for New Way Forward on Sexual Assault, But No Specifics – Politics K-12 – Education Week
The education secretary’s comments came at the end of a daylong summit where she heard from survivors of sexual assault and students who have been accused of it. View full post on Education Week: Bullying #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
District Led Investigation Into Locker-Room Assault – Education Week
An investigation into the sexual assault of a black football player with disabilities by his white teammates at a small-town Idaho high school showed that crucial evidence was collected by school employees, not law-enforcement officials. View full post on Education Week: Sexual Misconduct #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
What Research Says About Student-on-Student Sex Assault – Education Week
The true extent of student-on-student sexual assault in elementary and secondary schools is unclear. There are no national requirements for schools to track and disclose such incidents, as there are for colleges and universities, and sexual violence in general is widely under-reported. View full post on Education Week: Sexual Misconduct…
More Charter School Teachers See Unions as an Option – Education Week
Teachers in a spate of urban charter schools are unionizing and the National Education Association is expected to take up the issue at its annual meeting. View full post on Education Week: Charter Schools #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Stats Revealed by AP Investigation of Student Sex Assaults – Education Week
As part of its project tracking student-on-student sexual assaults, The Associated Press analyzed a national database of crime information collected by the FBI. The data also contains demographic details not available from state education agencies. View full post on Education Week: Sexual Misconduct #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
AP Investigation Reveals Hidden Horror of Sex Assaults by K-12 Students – Education Week
Across the U.S., thousands of students have been sexually assaulted by other students in high schools, junior highs, and even elementary schools—a hidden horror educators have long been warned not to ignore. View full post on Education Week: Sexual Misconduct #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Lawsuit: School Didn’t Prevent Assaults on 3-Year-Old Girl – Education Week
A Muslim community is facing allegations it failed to prevent several sexual assaults of a 3-year-old girl by an older boy at a private school it runs on its property. View full post on Education Week: Sexual Misconduct #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
10 Social Media Controversies That Landed Students in Trouble This School Year – Education Week
From shooting threats to Nazi chat groups, students have been punished by school officials for their posts on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and YouTube. View full post on Education Week: Sexual Misconduct #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More