Georgia’s Superintendent of Schools Richard Woods now says school districts may teach a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies after all, now that Georgia's attorney general said the state's law against teaching divisive racial concepts specifically exempts such college-level courses.
One prominent educator told ABC that "public education is on life support." Another said the greatest current education challenge is the need for it to "reset," which the educator projected could take five to 10 years to achieve.
The 183,000-student Gwinnett County district says the state Department of Education's refusal to approve the course means its students would be cheated out of credit for the difficulty of the work.
It's the second time in a year public school advocates have had to carry out a signature-gathering effort to try to reverse a legislative measure to use public money for private school tuition.
Superintendent Joel Herbs calls the A.D. Henderson School faculty his “secret sauce” and argues the school’s success can be duplicated anywhere—if administrators cede some control.
A bill aimed at furthering restrictions on discussions of "gender identity or sexual orientation" in public schools is progressing in the Alabama legislature, passing the state House on Tuesday.
Gov. Tony Evers said in his veto message that this type of legislation “harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites’ and kids’ mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our LGBTQ kids.”
Faith and education leaders are denouncing plans for an After School Satan Club at a Tennessee elementary school but said they would follow the law and allow the organization hosting the club to meet.
The event comes more than a year after the May 2022 mass shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, with building planners honoring the victims through its schematic designs, including a tree at its center.
The incident occurred at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, Florida—some 90 miles north of Orlando—when two school resource officers responded to a disturbance in a hallway of the high school at approximately 1 p.m.
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