%%excerpt%% New York students will no longer be required to pass Regents exams to earn a diploma beginning in the 2027-28 school year, according to a proposed timeline unveiled by state officials, who are sketching out a new “portrait of a graduate” that reflects seven areas over which students must show proficiency.
Teachers in many English classes across America are having students read fewer full-length books. Recently, the Associated Press explored the issue in education.
It reports that students instead are given only short parts of books. Educators said this is because they believe current students have shorter attention spans than those of the past.
Last July, the McConaugheys co-founded the Greenlights Grant Initiative in a bid to improve school safety by providing school districts with free grant writing services and information on grants, aimed at boosting mental health and security resources in schools.
Last fall, about 7 in 10 U.S. high school teachers reported that students being distracted by their phones was a "major problem" in classrooms, according to a study by Pew Research Center.
Before he was suspended, Zaire Byrd was thriving. He acted in school plays, played on the football team and trained with other athletes. He had never been suspended before—he’d never even received detention.
An El Paso, Texas, middle school is facing some criticism after officials announced a new dress code policy that bars students from wearing all-black "from head to toe," pointing to concerns over mental health.
The tactics for attacking segregation today are different from those employed in school districts generations ago. Across the city, some local districts and schools are trying other ways to mix student bodies without explicitly using race, as a way to avoid limits created by past Supreme Court cases.
Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment.
After taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Granbury ISD board member Courtney Gore, the co-host of a far-right online talk show, was shocked by what she found—and didn’t find.
The school cafeteria versions of popular kids’ grocery store snack kit Lunchables is packed with too much sodium, the consumer watchdog group warned on Tuesday.
Education advocates are renewing a push to change Illinois law to allow Chicago school board members to be paid—with the hope that would encourage teachers and parents from low-income households to represent Chicago Public Schools’ diverse student body.
In the latest poll—based on 1,300 responses last month from parents of 11- to 18-year-olds—2 in 3 said their child frets about how missing school will affect their grades. The same number worry about missing friends or school activities.
The review of the religious titles took eight months in Davis School District, which previously took heat for banning the Bible before later reversing that decision.
Reinvigorating youth sports may be the answer. It’s the ideal environment for kids to build life skills such as resilience and alleviate feelings of loneliness.
Despite members of the community rallying for Dr. Claude Tiller, Jr. to be reinstated as superintendent of the Green Bay Area Public School District, the Board of Education said the "window to have this conversation has closed" and the district is "moving forward" with the process of finding a new leader.
At a meeting to address ongoing violence at Brockton High School, Superintendent Michael Thomas, who went on medical leave before a $14 million budget shortfall was announced last year, rescinded his retirement notice; the school committee responded by placing him on paid administrative leave
Gun violence has again seeped into a youth sporting event in Central Indiana, the latest case unfolding last week near Beech Grove High School after a girls' sectional basketball game had taken place.
The LaPoynor school district frequently flies a Christian flag, but may not be running afoul of the Constitution because it says students are choosing to raise it.
One of the challenges schools are facing now is teacher shortages. Watlington says the district and other schools nationwide are having difficulty recruiting and retaining teachers.
The mistake stems from the department's apparent failure to update a key part of its aid calculation index for inflation, which has surged by some 20% since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly 89% of Indiana’s high school seniors graduated last year—the most since 2016, according to new state data. The graduation rates for all student subgroups except for American Indian and Native Hawaiian or other pacific islander students increased from 2022.
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The post featured a district employee posing in front of what appears to be a large mirror in a classroom with the caption "Every day is another opportunity to force kids in public schools to be gay."
Robert P. Taylor takes the helm of the 161,000-student Wake County school system as it continues to recover from learning loss and struggles to hire bus drivers. Here's what's in his 100-day plan.
Charlotte County Schools Superintendent Mark Vianello said removals were needed to conform to a state law backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that critics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”
"Our schools are, sadly, under-resourced and there is an unstated expectation that educators will spend their own money on school supplies and equipment," Vice President of the National Education Association Princess Moss told USA Today. "We don't ask nurses and doctors to provide their own equipment for doing their jobs."
The College Board says withholding information about gender dysphoria, gender identity, and sexual orientation from students studying human psychology "would break the fundamental promise of AP."
For all its controversies with school boards, book banning, and a "Don't Say Gay" law, among others, Florida has again risen to the top of the U.S. News & World Report rankings in both K12 and higher ed.
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