More than 10,000 special education students will be "extremely impacted" by the Denver teacher strike, a new class action lawsuit alleges. The suit, brought on behalf of the students against the school district — on the first day of the…
By the end of February, the students at Manatee School for the Arts in Palmetto, Fla., will see two combat veterans in body armor roaming the grounds, each carrying a 9-millimeter Glock handgun and a semiautomatic rifle with a 17-inch…
The parents of four preteen girls who say they were strip searched at East Middle School have outlined a list of demands to the Binghamton City School District through the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which is representing the families. According…
Every Atlanta middle school student will receive a laptop computer through a program aimed at providing access to digital resources and learning materials for all students. Atlanta Public Schools launched the program Friday at Brown Middle School. When complete, district…
Colorado state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg (R) “released his idea for getting more money into state education.” Specifically, Sonnenberg “wants to ask voters in 2020 whether the General Assembly could take lottery dollars from the Greater Outdoors Colorado fund and put…
Continuing the rollout of his groundbreaking PAsmart initiative, Gov. Tom Wolf announced $9.6 million in PAsmart advancing grants to enhance science and technology education in schools statewide. Combined with PAsmart targeted grants announced last month, the Wolf administration has awarded…
Two of the teenagers are headed to Harvard. Two of the adults are fighting for their jobs. But all who rose to prominence in the painful hours and days after a gunman's brutal rampage at a Florida high school one…
Denver teachers went on strike Monday after failing to reach a deal with administrators on pay in the latest example of educator discontent, following a wave of walkouts over the last year. Denver’s teachers started picketing before the start of…
Dolores Huerta had a whole lot of advice for young Mountain View Whisman students looking to make a difference in the world. Kids ought to fight to save the planet from climate change, encourage their parents to reduce wasteful use…
A hidden recording device in a special education classroom is raising alarming questions about what went on inside a classroom at an elementary school in Berkeley County, West Virginia. A warning: What you are about to read is disturbing.
The latest report from the American School Counselor Association shows many states, including Michigan, are struggling with a very high student-to-counselor ratio in K-12 schools, negatively impacting the effectiveness of a counselor’s work. A new bill in the Michigan House…
A mile east of the U.S. Capitol, on the eve of the hearing that would transfix a nation, 17-year-old Hollis Howe sliced his steak as he listened to his mother talk about sexual assault. Holly Howe, 45, told him about…
It's hard to empathize with someone who carries out a school shooting. The brutality of their crimes is unspeakable. Whether the shootings were at Columbine, at Sandy Hook, or in Parkland, they have traumatized students and communities across the U.S.…
They brainstorm in conference rooms equipped with whiteboards, use high-end computers and equipment and are given free breakfast and lunch. Except these are no start-up workers. They are students at an unusual New York City public high school embedded inside…
An all-volunteer nonprofit group in San Jacinto strives to reach every child in the community by funding enriching school programs. Founded in 2001, the San Jacinto Education Foundation helps pay for non-traditional curriculum and offers scholarships to San Jacinto Unified…
