CHICAGO (WLS) — The Chicago School Board is considering a major change.
Part of a new plan that is in the works would move Chicago Public Schools away from selective enrollment and magnet schools and instead focus on building up neighborhood schools.
As part of a five-year strategic plan, the board voted to approve a resolution to support neighborhood schools and move away from the school choice system. That’s where students have to be accepted into selected enrollment schools, and often have to travel long distances to get to those schools.
The selective schools include some of the highest ranked… Read More
An education advocacy group is speaking out against the province’s proposed plan to allow Grade 11 students to leave high school to join an apprenticeship program full time.
Earlier this year, the province announced that it intended to permit students to drop out of their final two years of high school to pursue an apprenticeship program in the skilled trades.
On Wednesday, People for Education released a report highlighting concerns with the change.
“The plan, if implemented, would make Ontario the only province or territory in Canada that would support students to leave high school to enter full time apprenticeships,… Read More
For far too long, there have been invisible walls between K-12, higher education, and workforce systems treated like they’re set in stone. That you need to complete one before moving on to the next. But the reality is that there’s a lot more overlap, and it’s time to Raise the Bar and reimagine high schools in this country.
That means that in high schools of the future, college is one, but not the only, pathway to a brighter future. And in high schools of the future, every student graduates with the tools they need to “Unlocking Career Success.”
That’s why… Read More
Education stories have dominated headlines over the past year, as a quick glance down this long, long list will show.
If you are participating in our new multimedia challenge, which invites students and educators to “show or tell us what high school is like in 2023,” we thought it might help to understand how The New York Times and other media have looked at the issues and questions facing secondary education.
Below, over 75 news, feature stories and Opinion pieces about school, teaching, learning and teenage life that have appeared across sections of NYTimes.com over the last year. They are… Read More
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Georgia high schools continued to make marginal gains in the percentage of students who graduated on time, with a rate of 84.4% for the class of 2023.
That “four-year adjusted cohort rate,” as the federal government calls it, was up 0.3 percentage points from the previous year, the Georgia Department of Education announced on Tuesday.
With one exception, the state has made steady — and generally incremental — annual improvements since the new measure was implemented over a decade ago.
The exception was in the… Read More
