AMID A MEASLES outbreak, New York City health officials are banning unvaccinated children from attending schools in some Brooklyn zip codes. As of Wednesday, there had been 39 cases of confirmed measles in Orthodox Jewish communities in Brooklyn since October,…
Now that the Every Student Succeeds Act has been officially in place for a whole school year, states are beginning to release their lists of schools that need extra help. And there's a particular group of schools that experts are…
The kid who kicked the classroom trash can is still stuck in juvenile courts three years later — and that bugs the former prosecutor who handled his case. In his time with the Suffolk Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, Del. Mike Mullin,…
A preliminary investigation by the California Department of Education has found the El Dorado Hills private school where a child with autism stopped breathing and later died last week violated several state regulations when they put the teen in a…
Newly elected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed the members of his transition team for education—and on it are two people linked to efforts to weaken the teaching of evolution and climate change, among other topics. One of them, Keith…
undreds of elated Acero charter school educators decked out in union red cheered, chanted and danced at a Sunday afternoon rally to celebrate their historic victory: a tentative contract agreement with management that ended the nation’s first charter school strike.…
Humboldt Unified School District, which serves about 5,700 students in rural, conservative Yavapai County, sent a letter to parents, faculty and administrators saying that State Rep. David Stringer (R), who suggested that only white immigrants have been successfully assimilated into…
Rural school leaders have some of the most complex roles in education — and some of the highest attrition.
The U.S. school lunch program is making room on menus again for noodles, biscuits, tortillas and other foods made mostly of refined grains. The Trump administration is scaling back contested school lunch standards implemented under the Obama administration including one…
A federal class action lawsuit against the Hawaii Department of Education was filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii over gender inequities for female athletes at the state’s most populous high school. That letter was sent to…
As Democrats flipped seven governor seats to bolster their numbers to 23 across the country, the incoming governors in California, Illinois and New Mexico have all said they want to take the rare step of putting a temporary halt on…
Ha ha ha. Plymouth’s superintendent of schools, Gary Maestas, allowed himself a short laugh. He was thinking about the real-time vape detectors he’s planning to install in the town’s high school bathrooms, and how the students don’t yet know. “They’ll…
The Albuquerque public school district is apologizing for a teacher who allegedly cut one Native American student's hair during class and called another by a racial slur. "It breaks my heart," said Superintendent Raquel Reedy at an Albuquerque Public Schools…
A Virginia high school teacher was fired Thursday for refusing to use a transgender student’s new pronouns, a case believed to be the first of its kind in the state. After a four-hour hearing, the West Point School Board voted…
One of the most economically segregated cities in the countries is trying integration to compete with charters and other school districts, but some schools in the poorest areas aren’t benefitting.
