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After Title IX investigation, Wisconsin district vows to make school safer for nonbinary kids

During the Education Department's probe of the high school in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, it was discovered that multiple teachers repeatedly used incorrect pronouns when referring to the harassed nonbinary student.

Teacher shortages at crisis level nationally and in local schools

“We’re not almost at a crisis, we’re actually knee-deep in the crisis,” David Taylor tells Channel 11. “We’re already worried. I think the general characterization that we have not been hit hard yet is not what we’re seeing in the classroom.”

Iowa teen sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for high school teacher’s murder

Willard Miller, who pleaded guilty to fatally beating his Spanish teacher with a baseball bat in 2021, was 16 when Fairfield High School teacher Nohema Graber, 66, was found dead.

Former South Dakota superintendent has teaching certificate revoked

Ryan Bruns, who has served as the superintendent for both Northwestern and Langford school districts, terminated a paraprofessional’s employment in an act of retaliation, court documents say.

Rural Mich. school may lose health center after controversy over mural with LGBTQ+ symbolism

Grant Public Schools' board terminated its contract with a clinic that has served nearly 700 students this school year—and community members claim it all began with a mural featuring characters wearing rainbow colors and the colors of the transgender flag.

Wisconsin governor gets creative with veto, increases public school funding for 400 years

The surprise move will ensure districts' state-imposed limits on how much revenue they are allowed to raise will be increased by $325 per student each year until 2425, creating a permanent annual stream of new revenue for public schools.

School voucher plan scrapped by Pennsylvania governor in budget deal

Gov. Josh Shapiro acknowledged that talks had deadlocked over a $100 million voucher program, which he had supported and which state Senate Republicans passed as part of their budget proposal last week.

Wisconsin governor uses veto powers to extend annual increases for public schools for the next four centuries

The surprise move will ensure districts' state-imposed limits on how much revenue they are allowed to raise will be increased by $325 per student each year until 2425, creating a permanent annual stream of new revenue for public schools.

A shrinking Alaskan village needs new families to save its school. Thousands responded.

The advertisement that quickly spread on social media promises families willing to relocate: a year with all their expenses paid, a picturesque landscape, a three- or four-bedroom home, and fishing, kayaking and camping adventures.

Under new cutoff, CT students must be 5 years old to enter kindergarten

As part of a large education bill passed through the state legislature last month, students will be allowed to enter kindergarten only if they have turned age 5 by the start of September. The change will take effect July 1, 2024, affecting as many as 11,500 children for the 2024-25 school year. 

Thousands rallied in Orlando Wednesday, demanding a quality education for students nationwide

As thousands stood in the scorching heat, the message that rang out many times throughout the rally was that they would continue to fight the changes in public education, especially in Florida.

Mayor Brandon Johnson picks new Chicago Board of Education president, 5 other new members

Mayor Brandon Johnson is replacing all but one member of the Chicago Board of Education, his first major step at bringing in his own allies to oversee the city's public schools.

Families of those killed in the Parkland school shooting can now tour the site

At their request, some families and surviving victims will be given private, individual tours inside the 1200 building, which has been preserved pending two trials connected to the 2018 shooting that ignited a wave of student-led protests.

Breaking down the Blueprint: The challenges school districts face in meeting students’ behavioral health needs

As part of the Blueprint process, education officials in all of Maryland’s 24 school systems must outline how they will fulfill the plan’s fourth “pillar,” or priority: how they will provide resources for all students to be successful.

“A human side’: Jewish community launches seminar on how to teach about the Holocaust

Dozens of teachers from school districts across central Ohio spent a day last month at Congregation Beth Tikvah in Worthington, a Jewish synagogue, where they received hands-on instruction so they could better educate the future generations of children about the Holocaust and the dangers of antisemitism.