Federal investigators are scrutinizing the enrollment and financial practices of two Indiana virtual schools on the brink of collapse amid allegations that they took funding for students they never educated, according to a subpoena made public Monday. And investigators also…
Late on a fall afternoon, a skeleton crew staffed the cafeteria at New Canaan High School, in Connecticut. Custodial workers cleaned up the day’s remains while one of the cooks prepped for the evening’s athletic banquet. A woman entered quietly…
Utah spends less — and in most cases far less — per student than surrounding states and its peer states, yet performs “respectably overall in terms of outcomes,” according to a new Utah Foundation report. States that spend the most…
Three college-bound students attended the Fairbanks Retired Teachers Association luncheon Monday to thank the group for scholarships they were awarded for their continuing education.
Decades of research have documented that students of color, particularly black children, are disproportionately classified by schools as having disabilities. In 2016, 12 percent of black children across the nation received services at school for disabilities ranging from emotional disturbances to physical…
A California school system said Monday it “strongly” condemned a video recorded last year showing students singing a Nazi song and giving the Nazi salute. But administrators would not say how students were disciplined or why officials did not immediately…
Staffers at a Texas junior high school colored in a black teen's fade haircut with a jet-black Sharpie to discipline him for violating the school dress code, according to a lawsuit filed by his parents.
As students in southern Maine prepare to go back to school at the end of this month, more than 80 asylum-seeking young people from African nations are spreading out among at least three school districts.
Nineteen schools heavily damaged during the August 2016 floods are at risk of flooding again simply because they sit at the same elevation as they did three years ago, but rebuilding an entire campus to a greater height is an…
The percentage of public school students passing a critical standardized exam in the District is gradually growing, according to results released Monday showing that students across all demographic groups improved on the English portion of the test. Progress in math…
The president of Puerto Rico's teachers' union has announced she will step down from her position after 17 years, after news reports highlighted her husband's education contracts.
The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of…
In the preface to “The Geographical Reader for the Dixie Children,” Marinda Branson Moore, a teacher who founded a girls’ school in North Carolina, noted that she wanted to teach children about the world without it going over their heads. “The author of…
Striking teachers have been successful at drumming up support for a raise, a new national poll suggests. Nearly three in four Americans think teachers should be paid more, the poll shows. That points to a potentially strong base of support…
More students are graduating from high school than ever before. Just last year, 84.6% of the US national graduation class walked away from high school with a diploma. Along with these increased graduation rates, schools around the country are also…
