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Elections Have Consequences #2 by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Dr. Naomi Johnson Booker, the founder of the Philadelphia-based charter school management...

ATLANTA (AP) – An east-Georgia teen says in a civil rights complaint that she should have been allowed to complete her schoolwork from home...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Va. (AP) — The St. Paul's College campus and the 35 buildings on its roller-coaster grounds are for sale in hopes it can...

A report released on Friday by the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Education highlights the alarming disparities in public education, disproportionally...

LEARNING--Shaevon Boyd, a third grader at Southside K-8 School in War, W.Va., works on a reading assignment during an after school program on May 7. The school located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages, provides after school access to computers, tutoring, recreation and a meal. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder) by Philip Elliott WAR, W.Va. (AP) — When school started this fall in this sparsely populated rural area at West Virginia's southern tip, 1 of 7 classrooms was without a teacher because leaders couldn't recruit enough educators.