Thurmond was heckled and forcibly removed from a Chino Valley USD board meeting after speaking in opposition to a proposed district policy that would force schools to inform parents if their child identifies as transgender.
Located about 60 miles south of Houston, the 11,500-student district doesn’t have a big college of education nearby to churn out new teachers. It’s hard to compete with larger districts in the region for talent or convince educators to move to the small town of Clute, where Brazosport ISD is based.
Followed the police killing of George Floyd, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination. The school board responded with a resolution promising to do better.
The number of high schoolers taking college classes has been surging for more than two decades. In what is called dual enrollment, students simultaneously earn high school and college credits from a single class.
Temecula Valley USD had previously rejected the material due to its inclusion of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, and had considered using a textbook that did not comply with state law.
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.
Darby Elo says that high school health classes already show students how to do CPR and the Heimlich maneuver—so why not EpiPens too? And what if high school health classes talked about the dangers of allergies?
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