My son, who is in eighth grade, will be entering high school next year. He and I have been touring public and private schools, an experience that is, at best, schizophrenic. One day, we’ll be walking through the hallways of a run-down public high school that looks like East Berlin, circa 1972; the next, we’re [...]

I better write this blog quickly because any minute I’m going to have to leave work, again (good thing I work for an education company), to cart my 14-year-old son off to yet another high school tour. Or shadow visit. Or interview. Or open house. For parents whose eighth graders are applying to, say, eight [...]

A high school principal in Sisters will replace Carol Loughner at the helm of Glencoe High School in Hillsboro next school year. Loughner is retiring in June. Bob Macauley began his career in 1981 as a middle school teacher in Kuna, Idaho before moving to Gaston where he taught middle school language arts, high school [...]

Rebecca Levison, president of the Portland teachers union, is upset about a district memo that unilaterally mandates that high schools switch to a new schedule. Union leaders had been collaborating with the district to help teachers learn about the change and how it might work in their school. “I am so angry,” she said.As recently [...]

The Palm Beach County School District is considering moving about 200 students from Roosevelt Full Service Center, a high school in West Palm Beach for at-risk teens, to the old Inlet Grove Community High School site in Riviera Beach. The proposed move, which would take effect for the new school year, is meant to give [...]

Today is the final day for Portland Public Schools students in grades eight through 11 to enter the district lottery to attend a high school outside their neighborhood. Last year, more than 1,100 students sought and won a spot at a high school other than the one designated for their part of town. That included [...]