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As of last week, DC's Department of Parks and Recreation camps had a waitlist of about 7,000 for its full-day summer camps, even after upping its number of available seats from 4,500 to more than 5,900.
The district launched the curriculum project in 2019 and developed the curriculum bank with four publishers; a group of 300 district teachers customized it.
State Sen. Cathy Osten, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee said in a news release earlier this week that Native American tribes have said for years that the nicknames and mascots are "horribly offensive."
The law, which will go into effect July 1, sets out a new process for the collection of teachers union dues, requiring teachers to annually complete a three-step process to have union dues deducted from their pay checks.
You may be used to seeing your calendar punctuated by the various holidays that occur throughout the year. But on one New Jersey school district's calendar, each one of these days will be listed, simply, as "day off."
Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting.
Using race as a criterion for deciding which teachers to keep will almost certainly attract a legal challenge.
Advocates and disability rights attorneys say, regardless of fault, schools must step up.
PTAs didn’t always focus on fundraising. But as bake sales evolved into Tesla raffles among wealthy families, some parents have raised the idea of redistributing parent donations between affluent and high-poverty schools.
With younger kids, the animals can give struggling students a comfortable way to practice reading — with their furry friends as the audience.
Students encouraged to reflect and 'pray as they see fit,' Gov. Ron DeSantis says.
In an email, the school explained that students who were unable to provide a vaccination card had a number written on their hand. Dancing was divided among three dance floors. During the dancing, after every few songs, students were asked to raise their hands to determine who they were around.
School districts across the United States are hiring additional teachers in anticipation of what will be one of the largest kindergarten classes ever as enrollment rebounds following the coronavirus pandemic.
Parents’ enthusiasm for in-person summer school, tutoring or pods is limited.
School districts across Colorado have received billions in federal aid to help students recover from pandemic learning loss. But, for the Gunnison Watershed School District, there’s a catch: little learning loss occurred.
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