Public schools

Lead Discovery Forces Water Ban In Newark Public Schools

March 11, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org Educate! Lead, Newark, Public schools, Water

By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - Public schools in Newark, New Jersey, were forced to shut off water fountains on Wednesday after test results showed high levels of lead in the water supply. "Officials say they do not know how long students at nearly half of the Newark's schools may have been drinking water with elevated levels of lead," reported Dan Ivers atNJ.com. The water supply at a total of 30 Newark schools tested higher for lead than the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s "action level," 15 parts per billion, at which point the agency requires "additional testing, monitoring, and remediation," accordingto ABC.

Netflix Billionaire To Replace Teachers With Computers

March 5, 2016 Steven Rosenfeld, www.alternet.org Educate! Education, Netflix, Public schools, Teachers

By Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet - When pondering the best way to transform and improve America’s K-12 public schools, do the ideas that first come to mind include: ditching locally elected school boards? Placing grade-school kids in overcrowded computer labs for hours at a time with unproven software and inexperienced teachers? Telling children from poor homes that test scores are the only results that matter? Or putting high-tech entrepreneurs who have financial stakes in the digital tools being road-tested on students on the private boards running those schools?

How Police Became Part of Public Schools And How To Get Them Out

November 23, 2015 GS Potter, www.truth-out.org Educate! Education, Police, Public schools

By GS Potter for Truthout - Charges have yet to be brought against Ben Fields, the white police officer in South Carolina who slammed a 16-year-old Black student to the floor of her classroom at Spring Valley High School, injuring her face and neck and breaking her arm. Nearly a month has passed since the video of the October 26 incident went viral, and while Fields was fired from his job on October 28, he has not been arrested or charged with assault or battery under South Carolina law. Fields had previously been sued for use of excessive force and currently faces a federal lawsuit in which attorneys claim that he "recklessly targets African-American students."

Baltimore: Community Fights To Keep Langston Hughes School

May 19, 2015 Erica L. Green, www.baltimoresun.com Resist! Baltimore, Public schools

A Northwest Baltimore community fighting to save its school — considered an anchor of the neighborhood — has been granted the rare opportunity to plead its case before a state administrative judge. Langston Hughes Elementary is among five city schools due to close at the end of the school year. "Our kids have exceeded every single expectation you have put in front of them," community leader, George Mitchell said. "We are doing exactly what you want a school to do. We've never asked y'all for anything. Just leave us alone." Delegate Jill Carter will defend the community in court, Carter said she is taking the case because "the overwhelming consensus is that it would be to the detriment to the community, exposing the children to harm and danger."

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