Thousands of schools across the country are chronically low performing, and they operate within districts and states that are struggling to help them improve. The School Improvement Grants (SIG) program is designed to channel federal funds to states and districts facing the task of turning around struggling schools. SIG, a part of the Elementary…

Tucked away in a 1,200-page bill now in Congress is a small paragraph that could lead distance-education institutions to require spy cameras in their students' homes. It sounds Orwellian, but the paragraph--part of legislation renewing the Higher Education Act--is all but assured of becoming law. No one in Congress objects to it. The paragraph is…

American society demands a great deal of its schools. In order for such expectations as vocational training and social mobility to be fulfilled by means of education, schools need to collaborate closely with welfare and other agencies. (CK)

Presents information, denied general circulation, contained in the legal memorandums of two constitutional experts concerning financial support by the government to religious institutions. (Author/RK)

More than half of the school districts situated across the country probably know the real shocker in federal funding for the school year--that they will be getting less of a piece of it than they had been expecting to get. While most of the public debate about the funding of the "No Child Left Behind" Act has concerned covering the extra…

Reviews Federal legislation and discusses problems (communications and local program accountability). (Author/SP)