Ghana: Teacher absenteeism in drops to 9% – Council

Teacher absenteeism has dropped to nine per cent, the National Teaching Council, has announced.

 

 

Dr Augustine Tawiah, Executive-Director of the Council, said this is a significant improvement in a country which had over the years recorded 27 per cent teacher absenteeism.

Georgia high school teacher killed in traffic accident with students from her school en route to chaperone prom

A Georgia high school teacher driving to chaperone the school prom died after a car carrying two students who were also en route to the school dance crashed into her vehicle on Saturday night, according to reports.

Leah O’Brien, 33, a science teacher at Lakeside High School in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, was commuting with her 8-year-old daughter and executing an eastward turn at roughly 6 p.m. when the teens’ car hit hers from the opposite direction, Decatur police officials told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.