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Children’s data hacked after school software firm missed basic security step, internal report says

A PowerSchool executive admitted that a breached account failed to use multi-factor authentication.

Oklahoma schools leader Ryan Walters moves to require students to prove citizenship

The proposed regulation would require school districts to track the number of students who cannot verify their immigration status and report those figures to the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

Separation of church and state? Religion in public schools is being tested by Christian conservatives

A wave of new laws and mandates in states, particularly in the South, is stirring debate and testing the bounds of what may be legally permissible. Officials, educators and parents in those states are now being confronted by what, if any, amount of religious-infused lessons they want children to have access to.

Florida’s school cellphone ban stokes controversy in Parkland

More than 200,000 students at one of the largest school districts in the nation have started the school year with a major change: no cellphone use allowed.

Kenosha school district says potential school shooting thwarted by staff; teen arrested

A suspect was taken into custody Thursday after Wisconsin police said a teenager attempted to enter an elementary school in Kenosha while potentially armed.

Use of button alert system played role in school shooting response

Teachers at the Georgia high school where four people were killed in a mass shooting were able to alert authorities by pressing a button on their badges. The alert system was put in place just a week ago.

Southern California school district sues Gov. Newsom over new transgender law

The Chino Valley Unified School District, involved in an ongoing legal battle with the state over the district’s gender-identity policy, sued Gov. Gavin Newsom over a new law banning districts from requiring that parents be notified of their child’s gender identification change.

Louisiana parents sue over placing Ten Commandments in schools

The families, who are Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious, alleged in court papers that the new law “substantially interferes with and burdens” the parents’ First Amendment right to raise their kids in whatever religion they want.

Wisconsin superintendent obtains restraining order against dad who interrupted graduation

As his daughter was crossing the stage at the Baraboo High School graduation, Matthew Eddy walked onstage and moved Rainey Briggs away, preventing him from shaking hands with the teen.

Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools

The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a previous Shenandoah County board’s decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby, three men who led the pro-slavery Southern states during the Civil War.

Police fatally shoot student outside Wisconsin middle school while responding to report of person with a gun

The shooting took place outside Mount Horeb Middle School in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. No one else was injured, Wisconsin's attorney general said.

Public school enrollment falling nationwide, data shows

The share of children ages 5 to 17 enrolled in public schools fell by almost 4 percentage points from 2012 to 2022, an NBC News analysis of Census Bureau data found, even as the overall population grew.

Prosecutor explains unusual charge against former Virginia school administrator after 6-year-old shot teacher

Former Richneck Elementary School assistant principal Ebony Parker was charged with eight counts of felony child abuse and neglect in the wake of a 2023 shooting.

Federal judge temporarily blocks teacher pronoun restriction in Florida

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote that Florida cannot “dictate, without limitation, how public-school teachers refer to themselves when communicating to students.”

This group brings free coding education to low-income NYC students

Hood Code is an organization that provides free coding classes to students who live in New York City’s public housing. These apartments are home to more than half a million low-income families and individuals, and 25% of them are under the age of 18.