While public backlash against Native American stereotypes has pushed professional sports teams in Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio, to change their names, there remain countless high schools across the U.S. that continue to use Native American-themed mascots and logos.
The state’s “Opportunity Scholarship Program” was created by the General Assembly in 2013. Two years later, the state Supreme Court ruled in a separate lawsuit that challenged the very idea of the program, declaring that the plaintiffs there failed to prove the program violated the state constitution.
The complaint — filed by an unnamed parent of a student with autism — alleges the student in the Central Regional School District in Ocean County “has been subjected to a hostile, intimidating and abusive educational environment” since starting middle school in fall 2021.
Carl Stewart had just dropped eight students off from his school bus in Central City Monday afternoon when he heard gunshots. He yelled for his remaining passengers to get down, just as he saw through his rearview mirror that the vehicle’s back glass window had been shattered by a bullet.
The bill, H.4100, would require there only be one school district wholly located in every county in South Carolina. Eleven counties across the state currently have two or more districts.
The proposed rule, which does not require legislative approval, is part of a broader rightward push on cultural issues that DeSantis has championed for what is widely expected to be a 2024 presidential campaign.
Criminal investigations of parents as well as schools are rare, experts say. But they appear to be gaining traction as communities demand accountability and new ways to prevent the violence.
Tension over how children with disabilities fit into the school choice debate was on display in a recent House Public Education committee, when Chairman Brad Buckley sparred with a Central Texas mother who said her special-needs son was denied entry to private schools in the area.
The incident occurred on Monday when three 7-year-old students became sick at College Gardens Elementary School approximately 15 miles north of Washington, D.C. and went to the nurse complaining of dizziness.
The legislation would require bullet-resistant doors and windows for all first-floor entryways and bullet-resistant glass "for each exterior window large enough for an intruder to enter." The state Classroom Trust Fund would pay for the installations starting in the 2024-25 school year.
The dress code at the Charter Day School, a supposedly nonsectarian, publicly funded K-8 charter school in North Carolina, requires that female students wear skirts, jumpers, or “skorts.” The school’s founder justifies the dress code by explaining that girls are “fragile vessels.”
Beverly Public Schools in Massachusetts is one of the first in the country to deploy electric buses for more than transportation: The district is using the vehicles’ giant batteries as mini power plants to send energy back to the grid.
The suits – now approaching 50 filed on behalf of public school districts across several states since the beginning of the year against ByteDance, Snap, Meta, and Alphabet – argue that these companies’ social media platforms are exploiting children much in the same way that Juul allegedly targeted young students.
The Mars Area, Penn Crest and Laurel school districts, as well as two teachers, several board members and parents, filed a lawsuit Monday trying to stop the Shapiro administration from implementing "culturally relevant and sustaining education," also known as CRSE, in every school district in Pennsylvania.
Administrators struggled to implement accommodations, like text-to-speech, for students with disabilities. Students were faced with repeated error messages, some of which would end test sessions abruptly. And one technical problem briefly allowed school officials to see confidential student information from other districts around the state.
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