Low pay, difficulty of jobs, unpredictability deter substitute teachers in Pennsylvania
Sign up for one of our email newsletters. Angela Willig-Friedrich noticed a shortage of foreign language teachers in Western Pennsylvania after moving from Tennessee,...
Gradebook podcast: Kurt Browning on over-testing and 'high stakes-ness'
Tampa Bay Times education writer Jeff Solochek talks about Florida's high-stakes school accountability system with Pasco County superintendent Kurt Browning. Recently, Browning was one...
After unprecedented opposition, Betsy DeVos is likely to squeak through to become secretary of...
Phone calls jammed congressional switchboards. Two Republican senators defected. Democrats held a last-ditch, 24-hour Senate debate in hope of shaking loose one additional vote.“We just need one...
Downey high school teen arrested after tweeting image of airsoft gun and making threat,...
A Downey high school student who posted an image of an airsoft gun on social media and said he was headed to school has been...
North Carolina teacher pay barely misses $50,000 mark
The average North Carolina teacher received a $1,900 raise this year.The increase was enough to raise average teacher pay to just barely shy...
California student, who was detained 23 hours at LAX and then deported, returns to...
Sahar Muranovic’s hands trembled as she waited for her sister.The 27-year-old scanned the crowd Sunday morning at Los Angeles International Airport, hoping that her...
Two killed when van plunges off 101 Freeway overpass in Hollywood
A van broke through a barrier near the Barham Boulevard overpass in Hollywood Saturday night and crashed onto the 101 Freeway below, killing two...
This visa-holding, pop culture-loving Muslim college kid is who Trump's travel ban is keeping...
Abdullah missed Metallica by two days when he left for Amman, Jordan, to get his student visa renewed.My nephew, or at least that’s what...
In an age of 'alternative facts,' a massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax
If there is anything worse than losing a child, it is losing a child and having people taunt you over the loss.That is what...
Teacher who allegedly spit on student punished by state
PATERSON -- The state recently ordered that a former Paterson teacher's certificates be suspended after he allegedly verbally abused and spit...