DA Staff

This school wasn’t built for the new climate reality. Yours may not be either

Climate disasters are becoming ever more common and more expensive. That reality is slamming into another reality: aging schools that were built in a time of less intense weather.

Minneapolis Public Schools cancels classes again as teachers strike for 10th day

Minneapolis Public Schools said on its website Sunday that it had "shared its last, best and final" offer as teachers continue a strike over wages and class sizes.

‘I still just worry’: 3 teachers on Covid’s long shadow over U.S. schools

As class ended on a recent Tuesday, Ana Barros, a middle school teacher, signaled for a seventh grader wearing Crocs to hang back. Minutes earlier, he'd stormed into the hallway, slamming the door in Ms. Barros's face.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approves $800 million to increase teacher pay

Florida is putting a record amount of money toward raising teacher pay. Minimum teacher salary in Florida will now be $47,500.

Philadelphia is giving high schoolers more time to sleep. Will it have unintended consequences?

Beginning this fall, the Philadelphia School District is shifting its high school start times to a mostly universal 9 a.m., reflecting a national movement to improve academic outcomes by allowing teens more sleep.

Police: Student, 12, arrested after gun goes off at school

12-year-old boy was arrested after he showed off a handgun in his backpack to classmates and it fired into a table at a Southern California middle school, authorities said. No one was hurt.

Justice Department reaches $127.5M settlement with Parkland school shooting victims

Federal officials confirmed the multimillion-dollar settlement over the FBI's failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.

In nationwide trend, one state’s K-12 enrollment still down after pandemic

Combined enrollment in Ohio's traditional district and charter schools fell by about 30,000 students last year out of more than 1.7 million students in Ohio's public schools.

Police: Man entered Pittsburgh-area elementary school, recorded child in girls’ bathroom

A man lied his way into Ramsey Elementary School in Monroeville on Tuesday and recorded a child on his cellphone as she used the girls' restroom, according to charges filed by Monroeville police.

Teacher and student shot outside Dorchester school

Preliminary investigation indicated that the student and teacher were in the parking lot preparing for a school event when someone opened fire on them.

Do masks in school affect kids’ speech and social skills?

Masks can obscure a smile, muffle a voice, and make lip reading impossible. But those are minor obstacles to human interaction, says Lindsay Yazzolino, who is blind.

Outrage came after ‘slave auction’ at NC school. Here’s what the district plans to do.

Superintendent Anthony Jackson proposed a plan to give more teeth to existing policies surrounding student conduct and discrimination, establish support systems for students, train the district’s staff and hire new personnel.

Los Angeles Unified School District says it’s keeping mask mandate

LAUSD leaders say they are working towards a plan with partners, including teachers' unions, to move away from mandates and towards "strongly recommending" masks indoors.

These schools did less to contain COVID-19. Their students did better academically.

As school systems around the country were battening down for their first remote start-of-school in the fall of 2020, the Lewis-Palmer district in Colorado was embarking on another kind of experiment.

Minnesota students and teachers sound alarm bells as school board approves anti-LGBTQ+ presentation

A Minnesota school board has said it will hear a presentation from “the other side” after a talk was given in January by OutFront Minnesota, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group.