(Reuters) - A backlash against high-stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Since the Texas Education Agency took over HISD, some parents say there's more focus than ever on test performance and not on actually learning. STAAR is the end-of-year exam ...
We’ve had 54 quizzes and tests so far this year in third grade,” said parent Taylor Landis, “for an eight- or nine-year-old, ...
COBB COUNTY, Ga. - Some parents are saying that a proposal to have option COVID-19 testing in Cobb County Schools is a step in the right direction. Parents said the current mass testing facilities ...
Angry parents flocked to a Broward County School Board meeting Tuesday to protest coronavirus testing proposed in three buildings. The parents cited concerns — circulated on social media — about a ...
Some parents with children in schools in the Marshall Fire area are urging the Boulder Valley School District to perform additional tests for possible residual contaminants. Several of the parents ...
The recent wave of COVID-19 includes a rise in cases among kids. Parents who have navigated the past two years of the coronavirus pandemic started the new year with a new set of challenges. As the ...
Excited at the possibility of having his 4- and 6-year-old kids’ return to a classroom after months of virtual classes, parent Mark Histed, of Ward 1 in D.C., decided to have the pair attend school in ...
Replacing the STAAR test and Senate Bill 12, known as the Texas Parents’ Bill of Rights, were two of the big-ticket items that passed during the regular and special legislative session. State Rep.
Onondaga County will drop its requirement that boys’ lacrosse players undergo mandatory weekly Covid-19 testing effective today, County Executive Ryan McMahon told Syracuse.com. McMahon said he has ...
ONE TESTING CENTER ABOUT WHAT THEY’RE SEEING HERE AT ANY LAB TESTS. NOW, THEY SAY FOR YEARS, PARENTS HAVE BROUGHT THEIR KIDS IN TO GET DRUG TESTED. BUT ONE DRUG, THEY’RE SEEING MORE AND MORE OF IS ...