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Iowa school district asking for parental consent for student nicknames

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What’s in a name? In the Urbandale Community School District, a student going by a nickname other than what is on their birth certificate will need to be signed off by a parent.

Police departments pull school officers due to Minnesota restraint law

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School employees and school resource officers can’t physically restrain students in a way that impacts their ability to breathe or voice distress—including holds that put students face down on the ground.

As more teens overdose on fentanyl, schools face a drug crisis unlike any other

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Three teens thought they were taking prescription pills for pain and relaxation, drugs like Valium or Percocet, that they bought from friends or from social media. But the pills they took were counterfeits.

Teachers predict wave of violence with a return to classrooms

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“I’m exhausted and we’re only three weeks into the school year and I’m already burnt out,” said Las Vegas teacher Kristan Nigro.

New school safety chief aims to ‘professionalize’ security at all Texas schools

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As Texas schools face new security and safety requirements, a former U.S. Secret Service agent has been put in charge of making sure the state's more than 8,000 campuses are in compliance. In the days after the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Governor Greg Abbott called on the state's education department to create a new position, Chief of School Safety and Security. 

Democrats push for investigation of Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s firebrand schools superintendent

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A Tulsa-area school district is in its second week of bomb threats after Walters shared a Libs of TikTok post about a school librarian on social media.

Where’s ‘woke’? Republicans test a different education message

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Ron DeSantis rose to prominence in part on his “anti-woke” agenda, especially when it comes to education. In some settings, culture-war messaging seems to be receding.

More than 150 bats found inside Utah high school as students returned from summer break

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The Brazilian free-tailed bats entered the Salt Lake City school through small openings on the third floor of the school, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said.

Three views of pandemic learning loss and recovery

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The big picture is that kids at every grade are still behind where they would have been without the pandemic. All three reports look at student achievement in the spring of 2019, before the pandemic, and compare it to the spring of 2023. A typical sixth grader, for example, in the spring of 2023 was generally scoring much lower than a typical sixth grader in 2019.

Teachers accuse San Francisco Public School leaders of fiscal mismanagement

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The United Educators of San Francisco report claims the district has borrowed irresponsibly, failed to capitalize on vacant properties, hired expensive consultants and overspent on top administrative salaries.

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