This July, over 11,000 students in Tulsa, Oklahoma — about a third of the district’s total enrollment — have returned to academic buildings for fun-filled programming that explodes the typical conception of summer school. “I did summer school before and it…
From Texas to South Dakota, Republican leaders responded with hostility and defiance to updated masking guidance from public health officials, who advise that even fully vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors if they live in areas with high rates…
California schools will receive more than $74 million in federal money to serve homeless students, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday. The money is part of the American Rescue Plan’s Homeless Children and Youth program, an $800 million fund to…
With every passing day, a perfect storm is taking shape that could undercut this year’s safe reopening of schools across the country. As students and staff stream back into buildings, schools must battle a highly contagious new form of COVID-19,…
The San Francisco school board violated state law when it voted to cover up a 1930s mural that critics said is racist and degrading in its depiction of Black and Native American people, a judge ruled Tuesday. Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine…
Despite updated federal guidelines recommending indoor mask use at schools nationwide, even for vaccinated students, South Carolina education officials said Tuesday that they won’t be able to follow the advice, due to recently passed legislation. A budget proviso that went into…
With the school year just two months away for most of the US, some students may be eager to return to the classroom after a year of learning online and over Zoom. But some districts facing a teacher shortage are…
Mike Smith’s classroom was nearly empty when he returned to in-person teaching last spring at Englewood STEM High School. Of the 200 or so students who opted to learn inside the building, only about 25 were showing up each week.…
With 1 in every 6 children facing hunger in the U.S., California is the first state to promise every public school student — all 6 million of them — free school meals. The universal school meals program, which will launch in…
Ignoring a larger fight around "critical race theory," Kentucky's largest district will offer its first Black studies dual-credit course alongside one of the nation's oldest Black studies departments. In the auditorium of a historically Black high school Tuesday night, Jefferson County's…
Hopewell City Public Schools has “become the first school division in Virginia to implement year-round school districtwide, which prompted state officials to sing praises to the district.” Gov. Ralph Northam (D) “along with Virginia first lady Pam Northam, visited Hopewell…
District 15, which covers a large swath of the neighborhood in southwest Brooklyn is expected to kick off a potentially contentious process of changing attendance zones for the area’s schools. Roughly 1,000 new school seats are expected to be added…
Most Tennessee students participated in statewide testing this spring despite school closures and other pandemic-related disruptions. On average, the state's school districts had a 96.3% participation rate in TNReady testing in grades 3-8 and end of course testing, according to data from…
“Elementary school students in the United States ended the 2020-21 school year four to five months behind where they normally would have been in academic achievement, according to a report by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. that was released…
Reversing course, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that all students and staff should wear masks inside schools, regardless of whether they’re vaccinated — an acknowledgment that slowing vaccination rates and the highly contagious delta variant are…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed course Tuesday on some masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the delta variant of the coronavirus is fueling infection surges.…
