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Looks like the mainstream media is starting to figure it out: the zero tolerance policies that they have encouraged over the past 20 years are way too harsh. The article sites the example of a Shrieveport LA high school student is forced to go to Alcohol

A Greene County, Missouri seventh grade girl was raped at school twice in a two year period. According to a Federal lawsuit launched earlier this week by her parents, after reporting the second incident and medical evidence of sexual assault, the school suspended her for a "prohibited public display of affection."  According to an ABC News report, the girl was forced to 

Education blog The Notebook has uncovered an erasure scandal in Pennsylvania involving 89 different schools. Unlike the scandals unfolding in Atlanta, New Jersey and Washington DC, several charter schools are being investigated. The State of Pennsylvania is investigating and has released a 

The People's Republic of Missouri has passed a breathtakingly stupid law designed to protect children from teacher sexual predators by preventing teachers from connecting with them on Facebook and other social networks.

According to the law,  "Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child's legal Read More | Discuss 

What do you do with a vocational school where the principal and teachers are caught smoking meth and meth residue is found throughout the school? Close it down.

Bonus: Another teacher was arrested for making meth and purchasing sudafed for the purpose of making meth.

The New Jersey Department of Education has announced an investigation into standardized test results at 38 schools (list here). The issue is a high number of "erasures" where a wrong answer was changed to correct. Another smoking gun: some schools being investigated show a large jump in test sc

Apparently, Colorado's largest teacher's union believes that the children would be safer if the public doesn't know when a teacher is arrested for a sex offense. The union sued to chalenge the constitutionality of Colorado's teacher sex crime disclosure law. The union said that Colorado's public disclosure law makes it easy for teachers to be confused with non-teachers with similar names that