Working on Womanhood, a school-based mental health program, makes students feel "heard and understood."

At a national conference, social studies educators discussed how the culture wars are reshaping their work at a time when simply teaching the subject may be viewed as political.

Some private schools across the state are hiking their tuition by thousands of dollars. That risks pricing the students that lawmakers said they intended to serve out of private schools, in some cases limiting those options to wealthier families and those who already attended private institutions.