Florida district comes up with a novel way to deal with a teaching shortage at some struggling schools. Top administrators are volunteering to help in the classroom for the rest of the year. Four Hillsborough schools that are grappling with teacher vacancies will get an assist in January from the administrative ranks in downtown Tampa. Onetime […]

It's been more than a decade since West Virginia's school aid funding formula has been updated. Board members approved a proposal they say will make the formula work for county school systems that continue to lose students and face greater challenges in educating children. It's been more than a decade since West Virginia's school aid funding formula has been […]

The costs in Central Virginia have mushroomed over the last few years. Some attribute it to more parents aware of their rights and fighting for them, while there's also been an increase in the number of students with disabilities, particularly students with autism. 8News has uncovered Virginia school districts spending a substantial amount of time […]

Some people may think they don't see color, but the numbers don't support it. Federal civil rights data shows that minorities in suburban districts, particularly black students, face serious obstacles in getting an education. Leah Stewart, a 12th-grader at Greece Olympia High School, is part of an uncomfortable sort of club at school. She calls it "the five […]

Researchers used activity monitors to study a group of high school sophomores, and found that with later start times, students were not only getting an extra half-hour of sleep, their grades had improved by nearly 5 percentage points. The Seattle school district joined dozens of school districts around the country in the fall of 2016 by delaying […]

In 1973, the Supreme Court rejected education as a Constitutional right. For more than four decades, no one dared to directly challenge that ruling but, in just two years, four different legal teams and plaintiff groups have done just that—shifting their arguments toward educational quality, literacy and learning outcomes. In 1973, plaintiffs in San Antonio Independent School […]

Unlike in previous years, the state focused less on schools with low overall test scores, and included schools where certain subgroups of students failed to meet academic benchmarks. Pennsylvania released a list of 289 struggling schools Thursday that will have to develop "improvement plans" with the direction of state advisors. Unlike in previous years, the […]

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