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Dear Leanna: My son and his friends have been talking about a tattoo on their geometry teacher's breast. I'm appalled she can distract students this way. I called the principal to complain, but he said it wasn't his job to police teachers' tattoos and told me to take it up with the teachers' union. When I called the union rep, she ...

As aging baby boomers retire from the classroom, there should be plenty of newly trained teachers coming up to replace them. By 2014, the country's 95,000 public schools will need to hire as many as a million teachers and principals. More than half will be trained at education colleges. But will they be prepared for the classroom? Probably not, shortchanging another ...

by WTOP Did the D.C. schools chancellor break the law when she fired hundreds of teachers earlier this month? That's what D.C. Council members are saying after revelations during a very heated council hearing Thursday afternoon. Michelle Rhee told the D.C. City Council she ignored their mandate to cut funds from next year's summer school program and instead fired hundreds of ...