A major program for student-loan borrowers in public service is facing big changes - and delays. Over 7 million borrowers are pursuing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which forgives student debt for government and nonprofit workers after 10 years of qualifying payments. Thousands of those borrowers, though, might have completed their qualifying payments but are still waiting for relief.
My mother, Daphne Garcia Lora, who has died aged 98, was a secondary school teacher known for her calm authority and generosity that shaped generations of pupils. During her long career at King Edward VI high school for girls in Birmingham, she rose to become head of modern languages, overseeing Oxbridge and Ucca (now Ucas) admissions. She took great pleasure in the success of her pupils and contributed to the school's academic reputation for excellence.
Hundreds of teachers, students and residents descended upon the Dublin School Board meeting last week to demand the immediate firing of the district's superintendent amid districtwide budget cuts. Heather Campos, assistant superintendent of human resources, presented a proposal to potentially cut over 30 full-time positions and 12 substitute teacher jobs by March, due to what the district said is declining enrollment and budget shortfalls.
The Music and Sonic Arts (MSA) program is an industry-shaping program focused on music recording, production, audio programming, interactivity, and composition using contemporary tools including Ableton or Max MSP software. Offered at the Portland Community College (PCC) Cascade campus in North Portland, the program includes pathways for two-year associate's degrees in music, or one-year certificates that can be useful in music and other tech jobs.
California is one of six states that fund public schools based on how many students attend classes on an average day. Under California law, Average Daily Attendance is calculated by dividing the total number of days students attended class by the number of days of instruction. A student who leaves campus for only part of the day to protest, or for any other reason, still counts as having attended school for the purposes of calculating ADA.
For the entire academic year, we will provide a list of candidates who stood out over the previous week and allow you, the reader, to vote for the winner. This week, we consider performances from Feb. 9-14 . Polls close at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Vote as many times as you'd like until then without using bots or any other artificial methods of voting. Votes by email and after 5 p.m. Wednesday are not counted. Scroll to the bottom for the poll.
The Australian Education Union (AEU) is recommending a 30.4 hour job-share model in state schools to expand working from home options for teachers, while keeping kids at school five days a week. The union has warned the government will need to get creative to ensure roles that can't be done from home are still appealing. Under the proposal, if you can reasonably do your job from home, you would have the right to do so for at least two days a week.
A further 36 universities face legal action from more than 170,000 current and former students, who claim they did not receive the full education they paid for during the Covid pandemic. It follows a settlement between University College London (UCL) and the Student Claim Group, which is now representing other students and graduates. Legal letters have been sent to each of the 36 other institutions, warning that they intend to seek damages for learning which students claim they paid for but did not actually receive.
Evaluating a language by its usefulness is reductive about as soul-destroying as telling a passionate mathematician that they don't need to bother learning complex theorems because a computer could do it. I did two language A-levels (German and Japanese) and went on to do a Japanese degree at university. Despite Japanese being less useful than Spanish in terms of the number of speakers, it has enriched my life in countless ways.
Fiona Igoe and her daughter Siabhra from Inishowen in County Donegal has been left in limbo after St Oran's National School in Cockhill was informed that its SNA allocation will be reduced from four to 2.5. A Donegal mother whose seven-year-old daughter has been diagnosed with Diabetes fears she will no longer be able to attend school after she lost her Special Needs Assistant (SNA).
San Francisco public school teachers and their union celebrated Friday after negotiating a tentative agreement for a new contract with higher pay and fully funded family healthcare, ending a four-day walkout that was the city's first educator strike in nearly half a century. United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) said its bargaining team reached a two-year tentative deal with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) at around 5:30 am local time Friday.
Whenever I made my initial rounds at a school, a quick peek at its technological resources was often a reliable predictor of its ability to meet students' broad needs. The differences in the quality and volume of computing labs at a school like Lincoln Park High School on Chicago's wealthy north side, where the local population is 75% white, versus Raby High School, located in economically distressed East Garfield Park which is 83% Black, were stark.
Education is compulsory in France for children aged between three and 16 years of age. Schools can be public or private and, under certain circumstances, there is the possibility of home-schooling. Some parents moving to France may choose an international school for their children or teenagers, with lessons taught partly in English, sometimes following a UK or American curriculum. We moved to France with children aged 14 and 11 in 2018.
It is, officially, just a small part of wider guidance for schools and colleges, titled Keeping Children Safe in Education, which covers everything from the basics of safeguarding, checks on staff and dealing with harassment. The section on students who might question their gender covers about five of the document's 201 pages, guiding institutions about what they should do in such circumstances. Unlike the previous guidance it is statutory it must be followed. It is currently being consulted on, and so will not come into force until September. The DfE says it will then be reviewed annually.
The case began on Jan. 28, 2022 when the school district got an email alleging Colombo had raped a middle school student in the 2001-02 school year, according to a narrative by a judge in the case. The school district reported the email to police and put Colombo on paid administrative leave. On June 15, 2022, the District Attorney's Office charged Colombo with felony aggravated sexual assault of a child.
Americans are getting worse at math. Student scores have fallen to their lowest point in decades. Nearly half of high school students barely meet what the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) considers a "basic" level of comprehension, and more than 900 freshmen at the University of California, San Diego - 12.5% of the institution's first-year class in 2024 - had the mathematical proficiency of a 13-year-old.
Looking for the perfect school fit for your child? The Bronx Charter School Fair & Kids Activity Expo is your one-stop destination to explore top charter schools in the Bronx and Manhattan. Meet representatives from a variety of schools, learn about their programs, and discover the best educational options for your family. Then don't miss the Bronx Charter School Fair , hosted by Bronx Family & amNY!
When Maria Santana first started dropping off her son Anthony at FirstStepNYC, an early education center in Brownsville, Brooklyn, he would cry for hours, refusing to eat or nap until she picked him up. Santana, who was working as a home health aid, told the center's director that she thought she'd need to pull Anthony out. The director, Catharina Oerlemans, had a better solution: She asked Santana to come work for FirstStepNYC as a food handler.
