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Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas will consider challenging a 1982 decision requiring states to offer free public education to all children, including those of undocumented immigrants.
Qwantay Spearman missed the first 140 days of school because Baltimore City Schools could not provide him with a nurse, which is required under his federally mandated IEP or Individualized Education Program.
Police say Jose Luis Ramirez Jr., 18, was stabbed during a fight in a campus bathroom. Another 18-year-old was taken into custody after he fled the school, authorities said.
Some Maine school districts are dealing with COVID outbreaks just as they’re hitting the home stretch of another school year affected by the virus.
The rapid politicization of school board races across Texas has led to an infusion of money and personal attacks in elections that are ostensibly nonpartisan.
During a time of staff shortages, some of the things teachers want can be achieved by district leaders. But they also have requests that require political activism.
Philadelphia public schools have lost nearly 1,200 Black teachers over the last two decades, mirroring a widening gap between the amount of students and educators of color in Pennsylvania.
In the first in-person, semi-normal school year since Minneapolis Public Schools stopped using armed police as school resource officers, the district is testing a program where community members act as violence interrupters.
When Larry Chen, a former Brookline middle school teacher, was arrested last month many members of the community were left reeling.
Police responded to two calls that elementary students from two different Fresno schools ingested marijuana edibles and became sick on Thursday.
By wide margins – and regardless of their political affiliation – parents express satisfaction with their children’s schools and what is being taught in them.
The event reportedly featured dancers in “tight-fitting and revealing clothing with exposed buttocks,” LancasterOnline reported.
Attitudes around the virus in schools appear to have undergone a dramatic change in the past three months. In interviews or in messages, administrators described school communities that were no longer preoccupied with Covid-19.
Public school systems are beginning to feel the pinch from enrollment losses tied to the coronavirus pandemic.
Lakota school board member Darbi Boddy, who campaigned as a staunch opponent of critical race theory, posted on her public Facebook page in response to the board weighing future curriculum reviews for the Ohio district.