Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an education budget Thursday that increases per-pupil spending, provides free school meals and enables more families to enroll in Michigan's state-funded preschool program.
"In short, transgender girls, who have not experienced male puberty, play like girls," U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer G. Zipps wrote in her opinion.
The city is often ordered to provide services to students with disabilities. But for two decades, thousands of families have faced long delays in receiving them.
A new watchdog report is revealing more than two dozen states have reported delivery challenges with getting food for school meals purchased by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Punitive school discipline is rampant in the United States, whether it’s corporal punishment or, much more commonly, suspensions. Students lost more than 11 million days to out-of-school suspensions during the 2017-18 school year, the last federal count, and they spent many times that number in in-school suspension rooms, kept from the classrooms where their teachers were teaching.
The governor announced the penalty less than 24 hours after a nearly six-hour school board meeting that dissolved into shouts and jeers multiple times.
The Republican-authored bill is meant to improve sagging reading scores and emphasizes phonics, the relationship between sounds and letters, over memorization. It also requires more frequent reading tests and employs reading coaches to help struggling students.
Youngkin said the guidelines, which have been sharply criticized by LGBTQ+ advocacy groups since they were first unveiled last year, will empower parents while prohibiting discrimination and creating a safe learning environment.
In an open letter to American librarians, Barack Obama has criticized “profoundly misguided” rightwing efforts to ban books from libraries in public schools.
The small district’s apprenticeship program lets aspiring teachers earn a bachelor’s degree and teacher certification at no cost. In return, participants must work at the district for at least three years.
According to the Teachers Retirement System, 2,810 public education employees retired at some point during the 2022-23 school year, down from 3,337 the year before. A decade-old record was broken during the 2020-21 school year when 3,515 employees left local school systems.
Some Temecula Valley USD board members claimed there was not enough parental involvement in the curriculum creation process and made comments attacking gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk.
The bill also requires schools to inform parents if their child begins identifying as a different gender—a measure that was already included in the legislature’s proposed Parents’ Bill of Rights. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed that last week, though an override is likely by the Republican supermajority.
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