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In this brave new marketplace, education and business are harder and harder to separate. For this school year, Paramount budgeted $5,000 for advertising and $6,000 for textbooks. Even as the school was freezing funds for new supplies, Paramount principal Bud Garrett had to send his teachers door-to...
Evan Ramsey knows. Four years ago, he brought a pump-action shotgun to his Alaska high school and opened up, killing the principal and one student. Now he is serving a 210-year term in a maximum-security prison in the Alaskan mountains. Every night, before crashing in the tiny...
That kind of response was bothering Stonewall parents more than anything else, as Constantino learned when he became principal six years ago. Parents wondered, Did their child arrive on time for school that day? Did he or she turn in the math homework? Are there any big tests or projects...
Still, the district thought Fox Tech could do better, and unleashed what educators call the "neutron bomb" of school reform: it "disestablished" the school and forced all employees to reapply for their jobs. New principal Joanne Cockrell, an intense former math teacher and basketball coach, rehired a third of the...
Every school has its Leslie Kanofsky. She's the parent all the teachers know, whether they have taught her kids or not. She's a loving mom, a committed PTA officer, a regular face in the halls--and, some say, a royal pain. In an age when many schools would...