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Florida high school students demonstrate against ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

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Demonstrations were held Wednesday at three St. Johns County schools, protesting a bill that would forbid discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

College scholarships will be awarded to all students at 5 Chicago high schools

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Hope Chicago is providing all 1,671 students at Juarez High School with a full scholarship to one of 20 Illinois colleges or training programs. One of their parents also will get the opportunity to go to college or a vocational training program for free.

‘Paper terrorism’: Parents against mask mandates bombard schools with sham legal claims

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The strategy is simple: Try to use obscure and often inapplicable legal claims to force a school district to make a policy change. And while the claims have no legal standing, they have been effective at spreading confusion and wasting resources.

Social-emotional learning is the latest flashpoint in the education wars

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Conservatives have accused schools of hijacking SEL to promote progressive ideas about race, gender and sexuality, while liberals have warned of threats to student privacy.

Parents and students protest over K-12 school mask mandates throughout the Central Valley

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"Remove the masks from our children, at least give the children the choice to come to school without a mask so they can get their education," says Brandon Marks, a community member attending the protest.

K-12 students are becoming activists, drawing on lessons from historic fight for ethnic studies

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The events of the past are inspiring younger students of today to stand up for civil rights.

New contact tracing, quarantine procedures begin in NC K-12 schools

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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services no longer recommends contact tracing or quarantines for students who test negative, even if they've been exposed to a positive COVID case.

Million-dollar requests: From COVID to critical race theory, freedom of information demands flood districts

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Leaders of small Minnesota school districts have been inundated with public records requests seeking millions of documents with information on everything from their schools’ COVID protocols to classroom materials, names of teachers and the buildings where they work, even text messages that mention race or social-emotional services.

Portland Public Schools expects to see 3,400 students leave by next school year

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Administrators expect the biggest drop in enrollment will be in elementary schools at 20%. Because of that decline, there's a potential for less state funding, and leaders expect they'll need to make staff cuts.

Families are suing a West Virginia school district for holding a Christian assembly

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Parents and students are suing a West Virginia school district for allowing an evangelical preacher to hold a religious revival assembly during the school day that some students were required to attend.

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