In a meeting Thursday, the HISD Board voted for a reduction in its workforce. That reduction translates into the laying off over 60 teachers, 26…
via myfoxhouston.com A lockdown at H.C. Carleston Elementary School was put into effect around 10AM this morning after a student reported that there was a stranger near a restroom. Police surrounded the campus and did not allow anyone to enter the building. Read more
The memory of DeShaun “Proof” Holton of D12 will be honored in Detroit with a scholarship for high school seniors who come from low-income, single-parent households. The scholarship is being offered by the Proof Foundation, which was launched by Proof’s mother, Sharallene “Pepper” Holton-White, in 2007.
The House passed a bill Tuesday afternoon providing $26.1 billion to cash-strapped state governments, and preventing roughly 161,000 teachers and 158,000 public works employees from being laid off. The vote was 247-161. Democratic leadership has been under tremendous pressure to pass legislation before the start of the school year policy-wise, and before the November elections […]
Serena Willaims has opened in another secondary school in Africa with the foundation Build African Schools.
Students in a California public-school district will upgrade their textbooks this year – to the divinely inspired Word of God.
R&B singer, Mary J. Blige, announced on Good Morning America that she has earned her GED and will be part of Howard University’s class of 2014.
There are five basic steps to the life cycle of HIV. These are the steps scientists use to develop drugs -- fighting HIV every step of the way, as it were.
FROM THE MIRROR: Teaching teenage girls how to walk in high heels on a government-funded college course was yesterday slammed as a gimmick.
Singer Fantasia Barrino appeared on stage in Greensboro, over the weekend, but it was not to sing.The singer earned her honorary degree while becoming apart of Andrews High School graduation ceremony.
Who doesn’t love a great summer tee? And a tee that benefits African schoolchildren with supplies, hot lunches, and teacher salaries? Even better.
School educators have been accused of cheating on the Taks Test for elementary school students. Click here for entire story.
