The bill would let families use taxpayer dollars for their children's private schooling. Lawmakers also signed off on a sweeping $7.7 billion package to boost public school funding.

Mansfield City Schools, a district of 3,000 students in north-central Ohio, is staging what it calls "a sleep intervention," hoping to improve academic success and reduce chronic absences, when a student misses more than 10% of the school year.

A group of students at Guadalupe Centers High School in Kansas City spoke with their friends and teachers about the toll the pandemic took on their mental health, and how those issues persist.

The Justice Department is suing Maine, alleging the state violated Title IX by allowing transgender girls to compete in girls' sports, which it says discriminates against female athletes. The lawsuit follows a Trump administration executive order and escalating tensions with Gov. Janet Mills, who vowed to fight the mandate in court.