When a teacher in New Castle County, Delaware, had to get reading materials to her English learners during lockdown in 2020, she used a brand new funding tool to turn her car into a bookmobile.
Much of the general public has ditched masks despite rising COVID cases but students in some districts are facing mandates as the new school year begins.
Just 28% of Americans say they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in public schools, the second lowest figure on record, a new Gallup poll revealed.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer visited a Flint community college Thursday to sign a budget bill that provides record combined funding for K-12 schools, community colleges and universities.
Faced with shockingly high gas prices and bus driver shortages, school districts across the U.S. are making efforts to maintain steady and efficient bus operations.
Most Illinois schools are on summer break, having come out of another year of having to adapt and adjust to the coronavirus, even as many students have yet to recover from learning losses incurred when classrooms were forced to suddenly go remote.
Mayor Eric Adams' proposal showed a $1 billion drop for the education department, to just under $31 billion – largely because federal coronavirus relief is beginning to dry up.
The stats contributing to teacher shortages are glaring: the average teacher salary is so low in 38 states that even some mid-career educators qualify for government benefits based on income.
