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A graduate of the Technological University of the Philippines - Visayas (TUP-V) in Talisay City topped the April 2024 Electronics Engineering Licensure Examinations (ECELE) held April 11-12 given by the Board of Electronics Engineering.

A HOST of events have been planned at Theatr Felin-fach this month to mark the venue’s 50th birthday.

Pupils at Scottsville Secondary School in Kraaifontein, Cape Town, did not let their circumstances dampen their spirits: they doubled their matric pass rate from 29.5% in 2020 to 64.0% in 2021.

A renowned conductor, a trailblazing attorney, and an academic visionary will each address graduates during next week’s fall commencement exercises at the Watsco Center.

>> camden is not just the boarded-up houses that you see. good morning, good to see you! there are lives. there are brilliant, beautiful scholars. good morning, george. you were rocking it out yesterday in class, okay? there are families who love their kids, who are passionate about education, passionate about equity, passionate about change. >> reporter: that passion helped turn camdens failing public schools into a success story. eight years ago, the state took over the schools and transformed...

Country with nothing, no special privileges, and as i argued in my book "an inconvenient minority," they still succeed in this country. they disprove critical race theory and they shed light -- you know, harvard discriminates against asian-americans. that is how successful they are. that is how successful they have become. >> laura: well, when you look at the controversy around education today, in washington, d.c., area, in fairfax county, there is a really high performing school, and that high-...

Only 10% of a schools budget comes from the federal budget. its up to districts and states to stem the inequity. another thing they do really well in shanghai is they have sister programs so the higher performing schools take on a lesser performing school and take over the management to elevate it. >> you also talk about the respect the teachers had in the societies. now, thats something the government i suppose cant really do. teachers could be paid more, which i think is one of the tragedies i...

Crisis. >> and also were failing academically. >> and that was a hugely controversial decision. >> yes, it was. i have extended the school day and the year, added years that never were provided for, and we took 49 schools that were not performing and underenrolled and continue to lose people and actually got every child, as the university of chicago said, to a better performing school and doing better academically and our graduation rate has gone from 56% to 78%. to me -- >> lets stipulate that....

I would not send my child there. >> why do you think therefore theres such outrage about the possibility that students currently zoned for 199, the higher performing school, may, in fact, have to go instead to 191? >> think it is because we have the designation. people are afraid to send them there, because we have been stamped with that disignition. i also think they are worried because we have low scores, low test scores. i think there are many factors that are counting. i mean, we are across ...

>> yeah. our school day goes to 5:15. most public schools get out at 2:30. >> three more hours of lear up a student that goes to success academy from kindergarten to eighth grade gets two extra years of learning than they would have gotten in traditional public school. >> if i was a parent living in that neighborhood i would absolutely demand that my kid go to the charter school rather than the public school. it doesnt work that way, does it? >> unfortunately, the heart ache is we had 23,000 app...