CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois will stop giving the ACT college entrance exam and instead start giving high school juniors the rival SAT. The Chicago Tribune reports the company that offers the ACT has filed a protest with the state seeking to cancel Illinois’ contract with the College Board, which offers the SAT. State records show…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – New data from the U.S. Department of Education show that 86 percent of Illinois students graduate from high school. That’s the 20th-highest graduation rate in the country. The department said Tuesday that the 82.3 percent national graduation rate for the 2013-14 school year was the highest recorded since it started using…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The nation’s high school graduation rate has reached 82 percent, a new high. The Education Department says the rate for the 2013-14 school year is the highest since it started using a new, uniform measure in 2010. Still, the numbers show nearly 1 in 5 students leaving high school without a diploma.…
BOSTON (AP) — The highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to decide if a judge violated the constitutional rights of a landlord when he ordered her to take a course on Islam after she was convicted of pushing her Muslim tenant down a flight of stairs. The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Jan.…
TOWN AND COUNTRY, Mo. (AP) – A Chesterfield teenager has been charged in a 2014 hazing case at a Town and Country high school football camp. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1RdEXpJ ) that 16-year-old Jason Bemis was certified to stand trial as an adult and was charged Thursday with six counts of third-degree misdemeanor…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama has signed into law a major education law setting U.S. public schools on a new course of accountability. Obama signed the bipartisan rewrite of No Child Left Behind at the White House on Thursday. The law will change the way teachers are evaluated and how the poorest performing schools…
The measure would replace the long outdated No Child Left Behind law of 2002
( KTRS ) A top Missouri higher education official says he’s retiring next year. Higher Education Commissioner David Russell on Wednesday announced plans to leave the position Jan. 1. Russell replaced former Commissioner Robert Stein upon his retirement in 2010. The 67-year-old Russell leads the Coordinating Board for Higher Education. Among the board’s responsibilities are…