Nickerson Elementary School in Swanville informed parents that school would be canceled after several of the district's bus drivers called in unable to report to work. Superintendent Mary Alice McLean says the district has a shortage of substitute bus drivers, but that the situation this week was unprecedented.

Join neuroscientist David Sousa at the only conference for improving rigor and equity through student-centered classrooms. Building Expertise 2019 will be held in Orlando on June 12-14. Early bird pricing ends January 25.

Hack is a full-stack laptop designed to teach kids to code by enabling them to hack games, settings and apps. Built on the Linux-based Endless Operating System, kids access source code and use a real sandbox for learning how to code.

Emotional ABCs Classroom is a new social emotional learning curriculum for K3 teachers and elementary school counselors. The program consists of 20 sequential workshops to instruct students in four major areas, including self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and responsible decision making.

Michigan's Department of Education will seek a legal opinion on the state's new A-F school rating system before it begins implementation. The office will be reaching out to state Attorney General Dana Nessel and the U.S. Department of Education because a portion of the new law violates federal law.

Students at Cumberland County High School are fighting against what they say is the local Pennsylvania school district's unconstitutional ban on distributing Bibles on campus. The school district had until Monday to respond to a letter from a law center requesting that the administration allow the students to distribute.

Oregon students who wish to attend school outside their home districts may have trouble doing so next school year. They may, that is, unless the state Legislature acts this year to extend the 2011 law that makes it easier for students to cross district lines to attend school. It's no longer the controversial subject it was when first approved, and lawmakers should extend it.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission's suggested solutions are not an adequate response to the questions raised by the shooting, Parkland students say. Some at the school†•particularly those of color†•said that the suggested changes, like heightened security and armed teachers, would make the school feel less safe.