All Virginia high school students, beginning with the 2011 incoming freshman class are required to pass economics and personal finance in order to graduate. The requirement doesn’t apply to current sophomores, juniors and seniors. Financial professionals in the Richmond region said the timing is perfect to incorporate financial literacy into a school’s curriculum. America is […]
Virginia Department of Education released the 2011 SAT scores for high school seniors. Virginia schools ranked higher than the national average in Reading and Writing but fell behind in Math. Virginia SAT tests were taken by 61,398 seniors in public, private and home-schooled through June 2011. Read the full story at http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/129814303.html
Parents and students welcome to the 2011-2011 school year at Richmond Public Schools. Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones and Superintendent of Richmond Public Schools will greet you at Martin Luther King JR Middle School and Linwood Holton Elementary School on Tuesday morning. “In some instances, parents will be sending their children off to school […]
ATTENTION: RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ PARENTS Tdap BOOSTER IMMUNIZATIONS FOR 6TH GRADERS (2011-2011 School Year) TO: Parents of students who will enter the sixth grade in September 2011 • All immunizations must be up to date. • Effective, July 1, 2006, a new State law requires all 6th grade students to have a booster to […]
A northern New Jersey school district has adopted a voluntary random drug testing program for middle school students. Parental consent is required for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in the Belividere school district. Those who test positive will be required to attend an early intervention program and have routine visits with a guidance counselor […]
An Ohio school teacher accused of having sex with 5 students says she was taken advantage of by predatory teenagers. Stacy Schuler, who initially pleaded not guilty to the accusations, backtracked Monday and said she was “not guilty by reason of insanity.” Her attorneys explained the surprising turn of events on Wednesday. “Stacy Schuler’s defense, […]
The event – a foul-shooting contest for top academic students at Compton High School in Los Angeles – was created with a simple premise: Organizers wanted to show the kids at Compton how to create community spirit with college scholarship money as the incentive. Three months after winning the $40,000 top prize, Allan Guei donated […]
Singer/songwriter John Legend has thrown his support behind a new campaign to keep kids in school. Legend has teamed up with Proctor & Gamble to shoot a series of commercials and online ads to raise money for Communities in Schools, an organization which empowers students and encourages them to succeed. John Legend has long been […]
