DA Staff

School mask mandates could change in South Florida districts this week

With positivity rates dropping, Miami-Dade and Broward schools could loosen mask rules as early as this week.

Miami private school reverses course on a 30-day quarantine for vaccinated students

Centner Academy changed its policy after receiving a letter from the Florida Department of Education saying the school's quarantine rule was being investigated.

Brooklyn Diocese fires beloved Catholic school music teacher for marrying his husband

The diocese claimed his same-sex marriage violated a contractual obligation to “exemplify ... Catholic doctrine and morality.”

After 23 students arrested in string of violence, dads spend time in La. high school

They formed Dads on Duty, a group of about 40 dads who take shifts spending time at the school. And it's working.

Atlanta schools offer $3K to lure teachers for online class

Atlanta public school officials are offering a $3,000 bonus to try to recruit new teachers for additional virtual classes.

Students say Ohio school play canceled over LGBT character

Students are now trying to put on the play elsewhere, starting a GoFundMe for production.

Florida education agency to investigate private school ordering pupils who get a vaccine to stay home

The school has asked parents to keep their children home for 30 days if their child has received a Covid-19 vaccine dose, and cites false claims about the impact of the vaccines.

A Texas school district bans boys from wearing long hair. Now, some students are suing

'They have been denied classroom instruction, barred from extracurricular activities, and forced to be suspended and separated from their peers for well over a month,' the suit says.

DOJ investigation reveals ‘serious and widespread racial harassment’ in this Utah school district

Black, Asian American students have faced harassment in dozens of Davis School District schools, investigators say.

Condoleezza Rice says white kids shouldn’t be made to feel bad over CRT on ‘The View’

Rice also said on “The View” that Black children needed to be empowered when the issues of race are discussed.

Schools have the money. Why can’t they fill job openings?

Experts say that multiple factors are driving the sudden education labor shortage and that the COVID-19 health crisis has exacerbated a problem that has been festering for years.

DeSantis pledges not to work with feds on school board threats

The governor called the order a "slap in the face" to local and state law enforcement, and pledged not to work with federal agencies.

Facing hundreds of teacher vacancies, this superintendent becomes a substitute teacher

School District of Palm Beach County's new superintendent Mike Burke is pitching in as a substitute to help the nation's tenth-largest district overcome staffing challenges.

Vulnerable Philly kids face a school nurse shortage that has some families ‘scared to death’

“I’m scared to death,” one mother said. “I need for somebody to know how to care for my daughter if she ever goes into crisis.”

Nikolas Cruz pleads guilty to 2018 Parkland school massacre that killed 17

A penalty trial will determine if Cruz will receive a sentence of death or life in prison without parole.