Private consultants will work with charter school networks to assist in opening more of the publicly funded, independently managed schools in economically distressed areas under a plan announced by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Thursday.
Everybody seems to be having fun when the kids in a new public service announcement are just playing football, until one boy is thrown to the ground and the background music turns ominous. Then, the coach starts handing out cigarettes.…
The Arkansas State Board of Education abandoned its previously adopted plan to relinquish only partial control of Little Rock School District after widespread pushback by thousands of teachers, parents, students and community activists who argued it would have catapulted the…
A statewide group of county superintendents has requested a sweeping state audit to investigate potential fraud by the Inspire home charter school network.
October is National Bullying Prevention Month and one elementary school in Sioux Falls is doing its part to raise awareness, but not in a conventional way.
Julia Mackay almost quit her job as a special education teacher last year. She’d been working at Chipeta Elementary School in Colorado Springs for eight years, and a sudden increase in the number of students with severe needs — without…
If a student in a Baltimore school turns to another and makes a vague but potentially threatening comment such as, “I will drag you,” that could soon trigger a formal assessment to determine whether anyone is in danger and what…
College, career, and technical education: that’s not just the name of new school buildings. It is the guiding principles of new educational programs at some Shelby County Schools.
The Cole R-1 School District in Russellville has received a $10,000 grant that will be used to purchase grow towers to enhance its science, technology, engineering and math curriculum.
Students at Jenkins High School in Savannah are building a new system that will help their community cope with flood patterns that have changed with the rise in global temperatures.
In listening sessions with state leaders over the last few weeks, Georgia teachers voiced concerns about a test-based accountability system that demands all students be at the same place at the same time, no matter where they started.
Teachers are speaking out in favor of a bill that would grant them and other classified employees six weeks of paid time off for pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth and recovery. Many of these educators have to use their sick time because…
Middle school. The very memory of it prompts disgust. Here’s a thing no one’s thinking: Geez, I wish I still looked the way I did when I was 12. Middle school is the worst. Tweenhood, which starts around age 9,…
Schools across the country are so fed up with students vaping on campus that they're suing the e-cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs. Multiple districts filed lawsuits on Monday, including school systems in Olathe, Kan.; St. Charles, Mo.; Long Island, N.Y.; and…
A majority of parents rarely, if ever, discuss race/ethnicity, gender, class or other categories of social identity with their kids, according to a new, nationally representative survey of more than 6,000 parents conducted by Sesame Workshop and NORC at the…
