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Supreme Court declines to block elite high school’s new admissions policy

The Supreme Court declined late Monday to block one of the country’s top-rated high schools from using a new admissions plan that a community group says discriminates against Asian Americans.

Declining enrollment clobbers California’s schools

Declining enrollment in California’s public schools pose a financial dilemma for local school systems and political issue for the governor and the Legislature.

Ohio school board president resigns after child sex sting video posted online

Goshen Local Schools board president John Gray has resigned after a video posted by child predator sting group shows him talking about meeting someone he believed was an 11-year-old girl, officials said.

California superintendent to sue after being placed on leave for her remarks about Asian students

Cheryl James-Ward made the comments during a board training session on diversity, equity and inclusion when asked why Asian students receive fewer D and F grades,

N.J. student suffered ’emotional harm’ when teacher removed her hijab, suit says

Second-grade teacher approached the student at her desk and “grabbed her hijab, pulling it back, touching her face and hair and exposing S.W.’s uncovered head to the class,” lawsuit alleges.

Embattled Texas high school teacher is permanently out after rainbow sticker dispute

Irving ISD teacher Rachel Stonecipher, an advisor for her school’s gay-straight alliance, said she felt the stickers helped empower the often-bullied LGBTQ students she worked with.

N.Y.C. places dozens of school employees on unpaid leave, saying they used fake vaccine cards.

Law enforcement alerted the New York City Department of Education that "fewer than 100" employees had provided false proof of coronavirus vaccination.

Police: Florida woman threatened to bomb hungry son’s school

A woman has been arrested months after threatening to blow up her son's high school unless cafeteria workers started giving him more food, officials said.

Assistant principal claims she was bullied into quitting after racist ‘slip of the tongue’

Former assistant principal Emily Mais, who is white, complains about “reverse racism” in a lawsuit claiming she was abused for using a term her colleagues found offensive.

Nearly 1 in 4 students has access to personal finance education this year

Millions of high school students across the U.S. will graduate in 2022 with one important course under their belt: personal finance.

N.H.’s top education official accuses teachers of ‘knowingly dismantling’ family values

New Hampshire’s recently adopted law restricting certain kinds of teaching about racism has yet to yield any charges against teachers. But the state’s top education official says he’s still concerned that teachers are “knowingly dismantling the foundations” of families’ values.

Hawaii has a $10,000 fix for its special education teacher shortage

The shortage is so severe that Hawaii is one of several states that rely on teachers without licenses in special education to teach some of the highest needs students.

More pandemic fallout: The chronically absent student

At one middle school, more than 40 percent of the students have been chronically absent this year. Districts are going to great lengths – offering gift cards, night classes – to reach them.

Milwaukee schools reinstate mask mandate just one day after it was dropped

A day after the new policy took effect, MPS informed families masks would again be mandatory, citing "significant transmission of the virus within the city of Milwaukee."

Tennessee lawmakers discuss bill targeting gender pronouns in schools

An anti-transgender bill that would specify schools are not required to use students' preferred pronouns is making its way through the Tennessee legislature.