Parents and students who spoke out in a heated town hall expressed concern about a lack of privacy for students, an increased chance of getting mugged due to visible products, and ineffectiveness were brought up by many.
Funding for schools, literacy programs and special education teachers in Oregon—a state where 60% of third graders can’t read at grade level—could be jeopardized by a Republican walkout that has stalled hundreds of bills and derailed the Legislature for nearly six weeks.
Three years after schools across the nation were shuttered because of COVID-19, educators say they are still struggling to teach kids skills they lost out on during remote learning while managing a surge in post-pandemic misbehavior.
An off-duty police officer who was on the baseball field at Florida’s Parkland high school during the 2018 massacre testified Thursday that he mistook gunshots for fireworks before he realized what was happening and approached the school unarmed.
In the next three years, all Missouri school districts must have a plan in place to annually instruct students about the Holocaust. They must also designate the second week in April as "Holocaust Education Week" for grades 6-12.
The Frazier Community Library has recently found itself at the center of a dispute after a Pennsylvania district's school board voted to evict the facility over security concerns.
The Davis School District, which recently pulled the King James Bible from elementary and middle school libraries, has now been asked to review the Book of Mormon because it contains battles, beheadings and kidnappings.
Education researchers and advocates say recovering from the effects of remote learning should be the top priority, but it is unclear how much of the funding is helping students across the nation fully catch up.
Mike Miles wasted little time Thursday before imposing major changes to the Houston Independent School District he now oversees, launching a plan to reconstitute 29 struggling campuses that forces employees to reapply for their jobs but promises higher pay to some.
Every summer, America’s tens of thousands of public schools undergo a transformation as regular but radical as any in nature. Emptied of their students and staff, many hibernate. But others transform.
A new analysis by Penn State’s Center for Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis shows that the rate of teacher attrition in Pennsylvania grew faster in the 2022-23 school year and hit its highest point in a decade of tracking.
Jenna Barbee, a teacher at Winding Waters K-8, alleged earlier this month that Hernando County School Board member Shannon Rodriguez reported her to the Florida Department of Education for showing her students the 2022 movie "Strange World" – one of the first Disney films to have an openly LGBTQ+ character in a central role.
This school year, Penn Hills became one of the first schools in Western Pennsylvania to embark on a technology rollback to prevent students from using cellphones during the school day.
The heart of much of the fighting lay in culture war issues led by Republicans, from how lessons about race and gender should be taught to what type of books students should be allowed to read.
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