Eight Oregon high schools will have to retire their Native American mascots after a Board of Education voted Thursday to demarcate them, giving a state some of a nation’s toughest restrictions on Native American mascots, nicknames and logos.

The 5-1 opinion followed months of ardent and romantic discuss about toleration and tradition.

The schools have 5 years to approve with a sequence or risk losing their state funding. Another 7 high schools identified as a Warriors will be authorised to keep their nickname though will have to change mascots or graphics that etch Native Americans. An different series of facile and center schools…

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Not prolonged ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for tip students looking to plea themselves and get a conduct start on college credit. Not anymore.

In a subsequent dual weeks, 2 million students will take 3.7 million end-of-year AP exams—figures good over double those from a decade ago. With no inhabitant curriculum, AP has turn a de facto bullion customary for high propagandize rigor. States and high schools are pulling AP classes and exams as a approach to lift standards opposite a board, in some cases restraining AP to bonuses. And a sovereign supervision is assisting cover a examination fees.

Now, AP’s fast expansion is reaching even schools portion some of a many disadvantaged students. These schools are embracing AP as a extensive toolkit for toughening coursework, emphasizing college credentials and instilling…

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Programs are directed during flourishing numbers of at-risk students

On a chain exam in his comparison year of high school, Ruben Ortiz found out he was not prepared for college-level math. His advisor suggested a summer “bridge” module at

El Paso Community College

to get adult to speed.

The five-week module helped Mr. Ortiz pierce adult a turn in math and equivocate a calming march in a fall. It also sole him on a college. Two years later, a 21-year-old, first-generation college tyro is about to finish his associate grade in mechanism engineering and send to a University of Texas during El Paso.

“It helped with a transition from high propagandize to college—getting to know a college, a admissions process, financial aid,” pronounced Mr. Ortiz, who after became a coach in a program, charity a same kind of recommendation that he perceived as an incoming student. Without a summer overpass program, he said, he competence have felt more…

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The largest sovereign module for high schools—the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education program—would get a vital makeover underneath a

proposal

denounced by a U.S. Department of Education final week.

The offer outlines a administration’s prophesy for reauthorizing a Perkins law, that was saved during $1.14 billion in mercantile 2012. The Obama administration is seeking to safeguard a program, final reauthorized in 2006, does a improved pursuit of scheming students to join a labor market. The administration also wants to boost partnership among high propagandize programs, postsecondary institutions, and business partners.

“This is not a time to tinker or only demeanour for change around a margin,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters during a discussion call Apr 19. The program, “must be remade if it is to live…

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Deondre Davis, a 17-year-old tyro during Cheyenne Central High School, is in re-entry right now—the duration of time after withdrawal a correctional facility. Researchers contend this is a vicious flare in a highway between progressing certain movement and recidivism for many ex-offenders.

He came home to Cheyenne, Wyo., in Dec after a six-month stay during Wyoming Boys School, a state’s many limiting youthful correctional facility. He got into difficulty with a law after he attempted to live on his possess and became concerned with drugs and alcohol, and difficult his problems by using divided from a police.

Vowing to spin over a new leaf, Mr. Davis is navigating his possess vicious re-entry duration by gripping busy: He attends high propagandize by day, works on weekends, and spends time with a crony he trusts and his girlfriend. He played on a basketball team, that won third place in a state contest this year, and even attempted bowling. He’s now on lane to connoisseur from high propagandize and skeleton to attend…

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Jose Lopez, a Central High School sophomore, uses one word to report a changes described in a devise to enhance and urge a city’s high schools: “amazing.”

While others sojourn doubtful of a large “cradle-to-classroom” district alleviation devise laid out by halt Schools Superintendent Paul Vallas and adopted by a state-appointed city propagandize house final week, Lopez, 15, is anticipating for “cooler choices” in his final dual years of high propagandize and improved credentials for college.

The devise promises to renovate a district from one with a lowest exam scores and misfortune castaway rate in a state to one where some-more students enter high propagandize on class level, connoisseur on time, and leave…

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ATT announced final week it will flow $250 million into programs to foster high propagandize graduation and career willingness over a subsequent 5 years. The association will give a income by grants to schools, village organizations, and others assisting at-risk students connoisseur and ready for college and careers. The concentration will be on ancillary innovative programs that precedence technology…

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