Portales moves development day

Nov. 16—Portales Municipal Schools on Monday approved moving a teacher professional development day from Jan. 6 to Jan. 17.

School officials also reminded parents and students the district will recess for Thanksgiving from Nov. 25 through Nov. 29.

The next regular meeting of the school board is set for 6 p.m. Dec. 9 in the administrative offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales.

The first, ominous sounds came from deep within the massive stack of logs in the darkest hours of the Texas night. Texas A&M University is set to mark 25 years since the log stack collapsed in the early hours of Nov. 18, 1999. It was being built in preparation for the annual bonfire ahead of the Texas A&M-Texas rivalry football game in College Station.

A school district in northwest Oregon has put its superintendent and high school principal on leave, accepted the school board chair's resignation and temporarily canceled classes in response to an uproar over the arrests of a teacher and former teacher on sexual abuse charges. The St. Helens Police Department said in a statement that officers this week arrested one current and one retired St. Helens High School teacher on allegations of sexually abusing students.

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When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state's standardized tests as a high school graduation requirement on Election Day, they joined a trend that has steadily chipped away at the use of high-stakes tests over the past two decades. The vote on the ballot question leaves only seven states with mandated graduation exams, a number that could soon shrink further. A backlash to standardized tests has been fueled by complaints they take up too much classroom time and questions about how well they measure readiness for college or careers.

BALTIMORE — Kids missing school is a longstanding problem in Baltimore. But new data obtained by The Baltimore Sun and FOX45 shows absenteeism in city schools is more dire than previously known — with thousands of students missing a third, half, or majority of the school year. Data shows around 11% of Baltimore City school students — more than 8,000 out of 75,000 students — missed 60 or more ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — The Lancaster Country Day School has announced they will "part ways" with its Head of School Matt Micciche and Board President Angela Ang-Alhadeff after a lawsuit alleges a former student made deepfake, pornographic photos of their classmates under their watch. The suit was filed by several parents in the community [...]

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters slammed modern education as "absurd" in comparison to the days of "one-room schoolhouses" in a Friday interview on CNN. President-elect Donald Trump has openly shared his wish to completely shut down the Department of Education, which would leave matters of education up to individual states. Appearing on Laura Coates Live, Walters couldn't hide his excitement over the prospect. "President Trump is going to fulfill his promise to get rid

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Establishing a law school at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) could fill a gap in the region's and state's need for legal services, according to a Texas Legislature-commissioned feasibility study. The study also found that if properly managed and supported, a law school would support itself after a start-up [...]

Around the country, advocates for Christian education have been finding legal ways to tap taxpayer money used more typically for public schools. One new approach in Ohio is benefiting schools tied to a burgeoning conservative political group and facing objections from defenders of the separation of church and state. In President-elect Donald Trump, backers of school choice have gained an ally in their efforts to share taxpayer money with families to pay for things like private school tuition.

(WBTW) — A 12-year-old Georgetown Middle School student is facing charges after threatening over Snapchat to "shoot up the school" if Mike Tyson lost his heavyweight fight against Jake Paul, authorities said on Saturday. Sheriff Carter Weaver said the student told investigators she was joking, and no firearms were found during the [...]

Oklahoma's education superintendent has sent an email to public school superintendents requiring them to show students his video announcement of a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism within the state Department of Education. Ryan Walters, a Republican, announced the new office on Wednesday and on Thursday sent the email to school superintendents statewide. "In one of the first steps of the newly created department, we are requiring all of Oklahoma schools to play the attached video to all kids that are enrolled," according to the email.

In the crowded Qalandia refugee camp, UNRWA's training centre is an island of calm where young people from the occupied West Bank master trades, but a recent Israeli ban on all cooperation with the UN agency has left the centre in limbo.UNRWA's ban in Israel and occupied east Jerusalem has raised fears that its West Bank employees could face problems not only accessing those areas, but also moving around more generally because they would lose the ability to coordinate with the Israeli authoritie

"We're going to gather all of this input, because at the end of the day, we want to build a project that the community is going to be happy with, and hopefully support so that we can see the eye on the prize and be able to provide housing for teachers."

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — This week, the Memphis City Council gave a thumbs down to a proposed new high school in an industrial area in Cordova over traffic and safety concerns. So what's next for the proposed school, and will it be built someplace else? The site of MSCS's new Cordova High School was supposed to be [...]

CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) – The new graduating class of deputy sheriffs are making their way into communities across Pennsylvania with new skills and training. On Friday, 38 new deputy sheriffs graduated from the Penn State-run Pennsylvania Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff Education and Training Program. This was the 69th class to go through the program. [...]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The New Haven Tutoring Initiative hopes to inspire a love of learning in the Elm Coty with a fall festival in New Haven Saturday. Located at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy on Columbus Avenue, the festival featured reading and writing stations, math games and hands-on science activities. Organizers say the festival [...]