North Carolina's Democrat governor is pushing for legislators to pause Republican-led private school vouchers and focus funding on public education and child care stabilization.
The Arab Student Union at Jackson-Reed High School in Washington has been effectively barred from hosting pro-Palestinian events on campus, forcing the group to host an event at a local restaurant instead.
Ultra-right libertarian President Javier Milei's steep budget cuts led public university officials to predict they can only keep operating for two or three more months.
The new grant program gives state funds to families with qualifying children in low-performing schools to use for private or home schooling.
More than 4,200 works in school and public libraries were targeted in 2023, a jump from the old record of nearly 2,600 books in 2022.
CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois partially granted a former high school student’s motion to certify a class of all students who participated in Chicago Public Schools’ “Quiet Time program” between 2015 and 2019. The student has sufficiently alleged that the program was presented as being secular, but featured “hidden” Hindu religious elements, such as chanting Sanskrit mantras that honored Hindu deities and were not “meaningless,” as the student was told.
Women’s participation in the workforce has recovered from the pandemic. But that masks a lingering crisis among women who lack a college degree.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A state court in California denied a petition filed by Protect Kids California, which sought to change the title and summary of a proposed ballot measure that would change various regulatory provisions that govern trans children in educational and medical contexts.
The regulation sidesteps the thorny issue of transgender athletes and discards Trump-era policies on sexual assault complaints.
ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal court in New York preserved a high school student’s equal protection claim against his school’s varsity baseball coach, who allegedly denied him a spot on the team because he is biracial. To establish an inference of discrimination, the student offered a selection of white players who were selected for the team despite their lower athletic scores, but the court needs a jury to decide whether those players are sufficiently comparable to him.
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A federal court in Vermont denied Monsanto and other agriculture firms’ motion to dismiss four teachers and a student’s lawsuit over PCB contamination in their school buildings. The ag giants are not entitled to dismissal because the plaintiffs plausibly alleged justifiable reliance on the companies’ representations.
