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US schools prepare for potential cyberthreat from Russia

Seattle Public Schools in the past several weeks has blocked web traffic from Russia, upgraded safety firewall services and hired an additional antivirus company.

KY teacher resigns after controversy surrounding message written on classroom board

Tyler Clay Morgan said he wrote a message on his classroom board that said, “You Are Free to Be Yourself With Me. You Matter.” The message included a rainbow flag and rainbow colors.

Later school start times eyed to address youth mental health crisis

California was the first state to mandate that high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Pediatrician Dr. Bert Mandelbaum hopes New Jersey will be the second.

Sacramento teacher strike over. Schools reopen Monday.

The tentative agreement with the teachers union includes ongoing 4% salary increases starting with the current school year and 25% rate increases for substitutes.

Virtual learning is one tool for reducing violence in Des Moines Public Schools

Students involved in fights in Des Moines Public Schools are getting pulled from classrooms and shifted to virtual learning under a new policy that launched this school year.

Montana schools moving to classes four days a week to attract teachers

“We've had situations where people have come in and taken the job we think they are going to be OK and they are gone within a week of school starting. So there's a lot of scrambling," superintendent says.

12-year-old killed in South Carolina middle school shooting, 12-year-old in custody

Motive in the case, as well as how the boy got a hold of the gun, are still being investigated. The sheriff's office said the boys “were familiar with each other” and believe it was an isolated incident.

Did this Colorado transparency law make it easier to understand how schools teach reading?

At a time when lawmakers in many states want teaching materials publicly posted in order to limit what schools teach about race, gender, and history, Colorado's database is a very different example of curriculum transparency.

A Vermont school district reimposed a mask mandate. The state’s top education official urged it not to.

The Washington Central Unified Union School District required masks in all indoor spaces starting March 28. Schools needed to “normalize masking in times of high viral activity,” administrators said.

Teachers fear the chilling effect of Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law

The law forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade. Teachers are wondering how the new law will affect them and their students.

In pursuit of equity, some NH schools continue shift away from ‘leveling’

Critics say “leveling” or “tracking” harms poor students, students of color, English language learners and other marginalized kids, often underrepresented in higher-level courses.

Officer shoots 2 juveniles after car strikes girl at Las Vegas high school

Police were in a parking lot around dismissal time when a car entered “at a high rate of speed.” Officers ordered the driver to stop, but the car made a U-turn, struck a student and continued toward officers.

Severe staffing crisis in Sacramento schools leads teachers, staff to go on strike

Students in the Sacramento City Unified School District are still out of class as a standoff between teachers' and workers' unions continues against the district.

School nurse on leave after posting comments about LGBTQ+ students

A nurse posted inappropriate comments in a Facebook group, including private and personal details about a specific student, Hartford Public Schools superintendent says.

NYC Chancellor David Banks: Schools have become like ‘testing mills’

"I am going to use this bully pulpit to talk about the fact that tests are important, but that we are really doing our kids a disservice,” Chancellor David Banks said. “There’s a reason why so many of our kids disengage and drop out because we’ve just made our schools like testing mills.”