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School Board News Today?s weekly wrap-up

Have you recently noticed more parents showing up to help out your schools? A new survey, featured in this USA Today article, shows the economy and the “Obama Effect” are spurring more parents, particularly African Americans, to volunteer in schools.

It’s the dog days of summer, but that doesn’t mean the education news has stopped. Some of this week’s headlines in School Board News Today:

• After lengthy negotiations and more than a month after legislation that authorized mayoral control of New York City schools expired, the state senate finally voted to allow Mayor Michael Bloomberg to continue his reign.
• The Los Angeles Unified School District reported some good news this week: its dropout rate declined 17 percent this year. District officials credit several reforms, including a program that finds and mentors at-risk students and the conversion of several large high schools into “clusters” of career academies.
• And the Washington, D.C. school system announced plans to offer tests for STDs in all its high schools, after a pilot program found that many teens were infected.

Find these, more stories on schools preparing for swine flu, and all the week’s headlines in School Board News Today’s weekly wrap-up.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on August 07, 2009 (boomark / email).