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Illinois schools wouldn’t have to serve cheapest food possible under new proposal

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Lawmakers want to change the way Illinois school districts solicit food service contracts, allowing officials to negotiate for higher quality products amid complaints that many schools offer unhealthy food.

Superintendent charged with 6 counts of false imprisonment related to strip searches

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Superintendent of Wisconsin's Suring School District has been charged with six counts of false imprisonment related to a restroom strip search for vaping devices.

Confidence in California public schools declines sharply

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Confidence in California public schools has declined as voters and parents overwhelmingly have concluded that the quality of education worsened during the pandemic, a new poll has found.

Judge: New admissions policies at elite Virginia school discriminate

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A federal judge ruled that a Virginia school system illegally discriminated against Asian Americans when it overhauled the admissions policies at an elite public school.

School is back in person, but the five-day school week often isn’t

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Last month, at the height of the Omicron wave, one-quarter of U.S. schoolchildren missed more than a week of in-person learning. The majority of students were home at least three days.

California voters strongly support mask and vaccine mandates in K-12 schools

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Statewide, the poll showed that a significant number of Latino and Black parents — populations that have been disproportionately hit by the pandemic — did not feel their children were safe from COVID-19 at schools.

Lawsuit aims to block Nevada school voucher petition drive

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The lawsuit aims to block the state's top elections official from putting measures on the ballot that seek to let parents use state money to pay for private school tuition.

Colleyville teacher resigns after saying conservative Christians need ‘to get COVID and die’

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A spokesperson for the district identified the teacher Thursday afternoon as Lisa Grimes, who taught eighth-grade discoveries and English language arts.

Georgia district will begin treating positive COVID cases same as flu, chickenpox

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Parents and guardians will only receive a close contact letter if schools determine "that the virus is being transmitted from person to person in a classroom, grade level or building."

Chicago poised to end controversial school ratings system

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New approach likely will no longer involve a number or letter grade for each campus–a practice that educators and others say reduce a school’s offerings and complex challenges to a single designation.

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