The Trump administration ended a long-standing desegregation order in Louisiana, calling it a “historical wrong” and signaling that similar orders may no longer be needed. While some view them as crucial, others say they’ve outlived their purpose.
The Trump administration ended a long-standing desegregation order in Louisiana, calling it a “historical wrong” and signaling that similar orders may no longer be needed. While some view them as crucial, others say they’ve outlived their purpose.
Mansfield City Schools, a district of 3,000 students in north-central Ohio, is staging what it calls “a sleep intervention,” hoping to improve academic success and reduce chronic absences, when a student misses more than 10% of the school year.
Vancouver and many other districts around the country have turned to technology to monitor school-issued devices 24/7 for any signs of danger as they grapple with a student mental health crisis and the threat of shootings.
Legislation in the General Assembly would require schools to ban personal devices during class, provide secure storage and review policies every three years.
A Florida state lawmaker has filed a bill that would ban public schools of higher education with an acceptance rate of less than 85% from admitting students in the country without legal authorization.
The curriculum—designed by the state’s public education agency—would allow teachings from the Bible such as the Golden Rule and lessons from books such as Genesis into classrooms. Under the plan, it would be optional for schools to adopt the curriculum though they would receive additional funding if they did so.
A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public classrooms is “unconstitutional on its face,” a federal judge ruled, ordering state education officials not to take steps to enforce it and to notify all local school boards in the state of his decision.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson named members of a new school board on Monday, batting away criticism of the move days after all seven members resigned amid an escalating fight over control of the public schools in the nation’s third-largest city.
Before he was suspended, Zaire Byrd was thriving. He acted in school plays, played on the football team and trained with other athletes. He had never been suspended before—he’d never even received detention.
In the Florida panhandle, one tiny district plans to consolidate its last three stand-alone elementary schools into one campus because there aren’t enough students to cover the costs of keeping the doors open.
Years after COVID-19 upended American schooling, nearly every state is still struggling with attendance, according to data collected by The Associated Press and Stanford University educational economist Thomas Dee.
Until now, Richard Woods, the state’s elected Republican superintendent, hadn’t explained why he was blocking approval of the course. Some districts have said they will teach it anyway, but others have canceled their plans.
Education experts across the political spectrum interpret the GOP platform’s wording as favoring the type of approach adopted in states like West Virginia and Ohio, which make available taxpayer-funded vouchers, or scholarships, that can follow a child regardless of income to any public or private school.
Educators in Wichita Public Schools discriminated against Black and disabled students when disciplining them, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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