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In the News: Disparities in schools' use of restraint
By: Cassandra West / March 15, 2012
New statistics show black students and students with disabilities are most likely to be restrained or isolated in school, according to Education Week.
One quarter of all students visiting the Museum of Science and Industry's "simple machines" lab come in the month before the ISAT. (WBEZ)
Saint Scholastica Academy — the all-girls Catholic school on Chicago’s far North Side that produced the city’s only female mayor, Jane Byrne — will close at the end of this school year in June. (Sun-Times)
IN THE NATION
Atlanta fires the first teacher in the cheating scandal that rocked the district. The teacher told investigators that he used a razor blade to cut into a test booklet package, and then a lighter to heat the plastic and reseal it shut by pinching it with his fingers. (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Hundreds of Louisiana teachers flooded the State Capitol Wednesday morning to protest Gov. Bobby Jindal's aggressive plan for reforming the state's public school system. (KTBS.com)
Most New York City voters support the release of public school teachers' rankings, but nearly half of all voters and a majority of pupils' parents agree with teachers that the evaluation system is flawed, according to a new poll released Wednesday. (Los Angeles Times)
Teachers at the New York French American Charter School in Harlem will be allowed to unionize, a state agency decided on Wednesday, overriding objections from the school’s administration. (The New York Times)
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