Report Cards

Straight-A student Rami Makarem, 11, had three words to say as his fork was poised over two pancakes on the paper plate Friday morning before class. “They taste delicious,” said the Jordan Middle School sixth-grader. The event was the annual...

Remember the last time you got a B in a class? Maybe a B was OK, a hard-earned accomplishment in a difficult, GPA-sinking course. Or perhaps a B just wasn't good enough — a subpar finish that left you mentally shaking a fist at other classmates....

In rankings of all 140 General Assembly membersreleased this week by the conservative, pro-life Family Foundation Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton, received the lowest score of any senator and Del. Brenda Pogge, R-James City County, as the only local...

Rabies prevention The Department of Health offers information on how to prevent the spread of rabies and what to do in the event of exposure. Rabies is most often seen in raccoons, bats, foxes and skunks. Information: 410-222-7168 or visit aahealth.org....

Edward L. "Mac" McDill, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins University's sociology department who was also the founding director of the Hopkins Center for Social Organization of Schools, died April 25 of prostate cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in...

Although expenditures are expected to exceed revenues for the current school year, Palatine-based Community Consolidated School District 15 is on firm financial ground, according to a newly released report card. Completed yearly by the district, the...

     The U.S. is an overall D+; Florida, a C-, a smidgen better but nothing great.   That's the bad news from the apolitical "Report Card on America's Infrastructure," issued every four years by the objective, well-meaning American Society of Civil...

Community Unit School District 201 school officials recently signed off on a new tuition-based, full-day kindergarten program that is designed to give kids a head start in academics before entering the first grade. School officials said tuition will...

Readers can get divergent views of Florida's education reform work — and the work of former Gov. Jeb Bush's educational foundation — tomorrow. One group is set to publicly criticize former Bush's  foundation tomorrow afternoon. A little...

TALLAHASSEE – A new national report card by StudentsFirst, the education advocacy group founded by former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, gives Florida a B- for its education policies. But, that grade also gives the state a ranking of...

Update: Criticism from American Federal of Teachers added to post. Florida ranks second in the nation when it comes to state education laws that promote quality education, according to a new report card by StudentsFirst. The group was founded by...

Florida ranks 7th in the nation and earns a B grade when judged on its charter school laws — by a charter school advocacy group. The Center for Education Reform issued its annual charter school law report card today and ranked the states and...