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180 local high school students treated to an exclusive tour of the 2019 Grand Prix on the event's opening day.

From calling them "buddy room drills" to making school psychologists available during the exercises, schools are trying to protect students — physically and mentally.

Kimberly Wahpepah wanted her daughter to be enrolled in Navajo language and culture classes at her elementary school. The school denied her request. Wahpepah’s daughter, Noami Sherman, 7, has a learning disability and a diagnosis of speech delay. The school…

Today, corporal punishment is still legal in 19 states. That’s unacceptable. Schools should be safe and supportive environments for students, where they can learn and thrive. In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporal punishment in public schools was…

Krystal Madrid does not know who Susana Martinez or Michelle Lujan Grisham is. As she navigates her daily school routine and social life, the Santa Fe High School freshman has other things on her mind beyond who was, or is,…

Can advocates for school integration leverage local control as a winning argument in Congress? The answer to that over the long term could be key to some Democrats' biggest, and perhaps one of their most aspirational, policy goals in Washington.…

While every Virginia school district now has the choice to start the school year before Labor Day, none in the Richmond area will use their newfound freedom this year. State lawmakers repealed part of what became known as the “Kings…

Tennessee has fought hard to build testing-based accountability into its public school system. So educators quickly took note when Gov. Bill Lee eased off of that approach with his signature education proposal to give taxpayer money to some families to…

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are looking in a surprising place for support for their tax credit scholarship proposal: the Democratic Party (they acknowledge they face an uphill battle).

A parade of high school seniors took the stage at Butler Tech Friday as America’s public school leader looked on in a first-time ceremony celebrating teens who have landed jobs even before receiving a diploma. The “Manufacturing Recognition and Signing…

For the first time in 20 years, the Yakima School District is updating science curriculum throughout its middle schools. By fall, middle school students will begin using a new curriculum which uses a blend of textbooks and computers, as well…

New Jersey preschoolers have the highest rates of autism ever measured in the United States, a rate that has increased faster than in other states studied, researchers at Rutgers University reported Thursday. The rate of autism among children in the…

Spokane Public Schools plans to lay off more than 300 employees, blaming a $31 million budget deficit next school year on Washington state's legislative fixes to the long-running McCleary court case on adequate education funding. KREM-TV reports 182 of the…

In a Lowcountry town haunted by the as-yet unexplained death of fifth grader Raniya Wright, an investigator broke weeks of silence Thursday to say that the Colleton County Sheriff's Office is awaiting the results of medical testing and sifting through…

More than 2,000 teachers across the Sacramento City Unified School District walked picket lines Thursday morning for the first time in 30 years, staging a one-day strike alleging unfair labor practices by the district. As the strike concluded, school board…