Three sets of parents and an advocacy group representing other families are asking a federal court in Maryland to suspend the policy–opening a new legal front at a time when schools are grappling with rules for transgender students and education has become a political flashpoint.
The keyword as students head back to school in Alaska's Mat-Su Borough School District is "STAR." Actually, it's an acronym—but not one of the really dull ones.
"Learning should be interactive"—that's what Superintendent Chip Jones was told by students at Cumberland County Public Schools. Well, message received.
A mother reportedly told police that her son had threatened to “do the same thing” as his cousin, who committed a mass shooting at an elementary school in 2022.
"We don't talk about the risk of heat until it hits us," Shannon McCann, a special education teacher in Federal Way, WA, told The Seattle Times. "And it gets harder in a high-poverty community when people don't have a way to escape heat even after school."
Milford School District says it scratched the practice from student handbook to "align the codes between the elementary and secondary levels as well as to streamline the content and align the terms."
Frankford High School students in grades 10 through 12 will return to their normal building next month. But because of ongoing work on the 'older wing' of the building, the high school's ninth graders will attend classes at Clemente Middle School.
Teachers in South Carolina are now guaranteed 30 minutes during their workday to take care of the things they need to do, without having to worry about teaching or supervising children during that time.
