Wisconsin's public school districts have 30,000 fewer students than they did before the pandemic, though enrollment didn't fall as much this year as it did in 2020. Annual statewide numbers released Friday showed a 0.5% drop in students attending public school districts, down…
Teachers are sacrificing their lunch periods to cover unsupervised classrooms, monitor lunch lines, and get behind the wheel of school buses. Students are enduring prolonged bus rides and diminished meal options. Principals are still searching far and wide to fill…
Last spring, after teaching their kids at home for most of the 2020-21 school year, Rob and Melissa Seger sent their eldest daughter back to school in March. By then, Rob Seger, who is a cancer survivor and has epilepsy,…
Universal, free preschool is one of the more popular measures in President Biden’s social safety net bill, at least according to polls. It also appears to be one of the most palatable elements of the bill for Senator Joe Manchin, a key moderate…
A divided state school board has cemented rules that ban so-called critical race theory teachings from K-12 classrooms and limit how educators can talk about race in the classroom.
As the new school year approached, Susan Graham wanted to know: Would her California school district have a remote learning option for her fifth grader?
School-based police effectively combat some forms of campus violence including fights, according to a major new report, but their presence increases the number of students facing suspensions, expulsions and arrests, particularly if they are Black.
Joshua and Alexandra Price say they and their two children were mistakenly given the Covid-19 vaccine instead of a flu shot a week ago at their local pharmacy -- and they are now dealing with some adverse symptoms.
In an effort to ban "political" signage from classrooms, the Waukesha School District banned LGBTQ+ messages and symbols from being put up in schools — and the community showed up to fight it.
New York’s state tests will go on as they did before the pandemic, which upended the tests for two consecutive school years, department officials confirmed Thursday.
Kindergartners attending schools where many students come from low-income families get less physical activity and spend more time waiting in line and moving between activities than do their peers in higher-income schools.
Student morale is up, especially in schools that have held more in-person learning, according to the perceptions of educators in a new survey.
A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to a book from an “opposing” perspective, according to…
Attorney General Merrick Garland sees a rising domestic threat to the nation’s public schools, but others are struggling to identify anything more insidious than irate parents getting rowdy at their local board of education meetings.
A plea for help by the National School Boards Association is having a ripple effect in politics—riling local school board members, already-angry parents, and causing the Florida Association of School Boards to distance itself from its national arm. In Leon…
Schools are mostly back to in-person instruction to the delight of some and the dismay of others. The concern of safety in the classroom is exacerbated by anxiety and struggles of focusing at home.
