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The San Francisco Bay Area school officials were meeting to discuss reopening schools and are now in quarantine.
NJ Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill into law that overhauls health care benefits for teachers in New Jersey — a plan that proponents say will lower premium costs for educators and could save teachers, school districts, and the state an estimated $1 billion a year.
The Washington Teachers’ Union is telling its members to ignore a school system letter asking teachers to select whether they plan to teach in person in the fall or stay home.
“I’m calling on the Michigan High School Athletic Association to consider postponing fall sports that have the impossibility of social distancing as a part of them, considering moving those to the spring and running some of the more individualized sports like track and field or tennis or golf to the fall,” Gov. Whitmer said.
A new program aims to provide support, coaching and professional development to first- and second-year teachers.
The Los Angeles Board of Education approved an immediate 35% cut to its school police force, a reduction of $25 million, in response to weeks of protests by student activists and community groups who had called for the elimination of the department.
The federal report, authored by DOE’s Office of Special Education Programs, found that the state agency consistently failed to supervise local school districts and establish adequate processes for addressing complaints.
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidance “strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school.”
The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, concerned a school choice program that provided taxpayer dollars for private school scholarships.
The online school set up by the government to support pupils in lockdown is preparing to record 10,000 lessons in July, as the government splashes out £4.3m on providing an online learning “backup” during the new academic year.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed into law a K-12 educator pay bill that he says still fails to give what teachers and school staff need.
A high-tension hearing is expected soon as the Texas State Board of Education begins considering changes to its statewide policy for health education, including teaching middle schoolers about contraception.
In a new rule, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos signaled she is standing firm on her intention to reroute millions of dollars in coronavirus aid money to K-12 private school students.
Stand with Parkland — The National Association of Families for Safe Schools, founded by families of the students and educators murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, believes it is a mistake to remove law enforcement from school campuses.
This unanticipated silver lining from the coronavirus shift to remote learning presents a valuable opportunity we should seize upon to make our schools more emotionally supportive and stamp out social bullying.
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