Roughly 1,200 first graders from a Brooklyn school district with the city's highest proportion of Black students are seeing $1,000 added to their new college savings accounts, the result of donations from Bloomberg Philanthropies and a local foundation.
If people think of themselves less like members of partisan political tribes and more like members of a shared community, the culture wars can begin to recede.
Since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced the 2022 Model Policies for Virginia schools that are intended to require students to use locker rooms and programs that match their assigned sex, rather than their gender identity, controversial conversations have continued to impact day-to-day educational experiences.
From "devious licks" to "swatting," TikTok challenges are causing disruptions – including vandalization, theft and false police reports – in schools around the country.
Since the 26 deaths at Sandy Hook, at least a dozen schools, from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, have been the site of mass shootings or killings.
