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Martins Bike Shop Inc. Art Plus Gallery Exeter Family Restaurant [+] Enlarge.   -  The head of a state commission said proposed changes in sentencing guidelines that judges follow are being driven by new federal laws and prison overcrowding. Mark H. Bergstrom, executive director of the Commission on Sentencing, outlined the proposals during a hearing Thursday [...]

INDIANAPOLIS, IN–(Marketwire -05/17/12)- For the first time ever, Fayette County children will receive free lunches this summer, donated by Gleaners Food Bank and Chartwells School Dining Services. The Spartan Summer Food Truck Program will begin on Monday, May 21st from 11 am – 1 pm at Connersville, Indiana’s City Park. The summer feeding program will [...]

It’s the teacher’s turn to be graded. Under new teacher tenure laws in effect in Michigan, all classroom instructors must be evaluated annually in every district starting this school year — a practice that has not occurred in some schools in decades. Since the fall, observers — typically local principals — have been logging hours [...]

Thomas J. O’Halloran/Library of Congress U.S. News World Report Magazine Photograph CollectionIn Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall successfully argued that school segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board of [...]

FLORENCE, AL (WAFF) – One of Alabama’s new laws is forcing many superintendents to toss out their approved school calendar and start over. Now local school leaders are looking at their options to determine what’s best for the students. Superintendents say they have been following this bill closely and slowly adapting to the changes so [...]

Laws on smacking children questioned By Noel Baker Wednesday, May 16, 2012 A senior member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has questioned whether Irish laws on smacking mean parents can be good role models for their children. Speaking at a conference in Dublin yesterday organised by the Campaign for [...]

A lawsuit challenging the legality of California laws that make it more difficult to lay off or fire ineffective teachers has been filed by a 2-year-old education reform group. The lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Students Matter seeks to overturn five statutes governing teacher tenure, dismissal and seniority rules, claiming they violate they rights of [...]

Teacher unions have defended tenure, seniority and dismissal rules as important and frequently necessary job protections. They’ve insisted the problems in education lie elsewhere, such as in funding levels that have dropped in California. The founder of Students Matter is Silicon Valley entrepreneur David F. Welch, a research scientist who went on to co-found Infinera, [...]

In a sweeping challenge of teacher employment rules, eight students have filed suit claiming that California law violates their right to a quality education by protecting bad teachers from being laid off or fired. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeks to overturn five laws governing teacher tenure, dismissal procedures and [...]

LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Yesterday afternoon, the nonprofit group Students Matter (www.studentsmatter.org) sponsored a groundbreaking lawsuit against the state of California and the California Department of Education to strike down outdated state laws that prevent the recruitment, support and retention of effective teachers.  The lawsuit focuses on improving overall teacher effectiveness because of [...]