Parents posted hateful Facebook messages, governors handed out leaflets saying she must go. Yet a head and ex-detective transformed a school against the odds.
Under pressure from the state, some Texas school districts are reducing the number of special education students by shutting out thousands of English-language learners in a move critics call clear discrimination against immigrant families.
Almost half of students would be willing to pay more in tuition fees for a more personalised approach to teaching at university, recent research has found.
The final number in St Edward’s all-singing, all-dancing, nativity-themed Christmas musical, Strictly Angelic, approaches. Joseph propels Mary into a dance lift, while 100 small children dressed head to toe in tinsel perform a synchronised cha-cha around them. The curtain falls.