Opponents fear the bill is a “Trojan horse” for evangelizing kids and will worsen the state’s mental health crisis through disproven counseling approaches.
New York is the latest large city to join a national push to change how children are taught to read. But principals and teachers may resist uprooting old practices.
In Quincy, school officials are already trying it out. As of this year, the district has a policy that restricts cellphone usage at schools. In elementary schools, cellphones are banned. In middle schools, they have to be kept in a locker, and at the high school they can only be used at lunch and during passing times.
A dashboard on the department’s website shows school districts have spent varying percentages of the two remaining packages of relief money, ranging from 6% in the small, rural Elba City school district, to 100% by multiple school districts.
Accusing the school board majority of egregious politicization of board business, Douglas County School Board member Elizabeth Hanson resigned at a school board meeting Tuesday night, walking out of the room and heading home.
A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans.
The poem, which Gorman famously recited at President Joe Biden's 2020 presidential inauguration, will now be accessible only to middle school students at the pre-K through eighth grade Bob Graham Education Center near Miami.
Florida Department of Education officials in a Jan. 12 letter rejected aspects of the AP African American Studies curriculum, saying it violated state law and was "significantly" lacking in educational value.
While alone in a school bathroom, a local police officer inadvertently discharged their firearm, the Danvers police department said in a Facebook post. Local and state police had responded to a report of someone with a gun at St. John’s Prep at about 2 p.m. Monday, and the sound of the gunshot “elevated the situation,” police said.
In our series Rethinking College, we've put a particular emphasis on showing why it's crucial to build and diversify the teaching pipeline throughout a student's academic life and the impact it can have. Geoff Bennett reports on why developing and recruiting more Black teachers is especially important for Black students to make sure they go on and get their degrees.
Olathe South High School Principal Dale Longenecker has resigned, seemingly answering students’ calls to step down because of how the school has handled racist incidents.
Ron DeSantis’s war on “wokeness” has thrust educators into a legal minefield, pushing many to leave the profession entirely. One union leader says it’s all part of a GOP agenda to eradicate public schools: “This is just a part of their playbook.”
Jesse Osborne, serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14, is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison.
“Less is more with the repeal of the A-F system, which always tried to create the false impression that rating schools was easy. It isn't," State Superintendent Michael Rice said in the statement from Whitmer's office. "Schools are complex, and what educators do daily for children is as well. It distills poorly into a letter grade system."
Authorities claimed the journals and other writings were protected from release as long as they’re part of an open investigation, but indicated they’d be made public at some point.
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