Overruling 3-year-old precedent, the sharply divided Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a law Tuesday that requires the state superintendent of schools to get the governor’s nod before changing education policy.
Read moreA mother claims in a federal complaint that the Santa Rosa Independent School District fails to provide an appropriate education for her son, who has cognition problems because she took cocaine while she was pregnant with him.
Read moreNew York eliminated the religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren Thursday, as the nation’s worst measles outbreak in decades prompts states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out of immunizing their children.
Read moreA California middle schooler claims in court that his social studies teacher at Mesa Union School District refused to call him by his Arabic name and disseminated false information to the class, such as Islam permits Muslims to rape with the blessing of Allah.
Read moreFormer Parkland, Florida, school deputy Scot Peterson’s attorney says state officials were engaged in a “veiled attempt at politically motivated retribution” when they slapped Peterson with child-neglect charges for not confronting an assault rifle-wielding teenager during his attack on a local high school.
Read moreThe Republican leader of the West Virginia Senate is once again angering teachers in the Mountain State by calling for a special legislative session on Saturday in an attempt to pass a bill that would allow for an unlimited amount of charter schools.
Read moreFleshing out his 2020 campaign platform, former Vice President Joe Biden revealed Tuesday that his education goals will include federal support for low-income schools and higher salaries for public educators.
Read moreA 13-year-old claims in a federal complaint that her middle school math teacher forcibly raped her in a locked classroom, and that the school board in Loudon County, Virginia, reinstated him and retaliated against her after she complained.
Read moreIt’s a mantra Texas officials have repeated for months and probably say in their sleep: We need more school funding and property tax reform. Their vision came to light with an $11 billion package lawmakers unveiled Thursday.
Read moreThe founder and former CEO of Celerity Educational Group, a so-called nonprofit, was sentenced Monday to 2½ years in federal prison for conspiring to swipe $3.2 million in public money from the schools; Vielka Maritza McFarlane, 56, spent some of it on foreign vacations and “customized recreational bicycles,” prosecutors said.
Read moreFormer University of Oregon football star Keanon Lowe said he had just entered a classroom at the Portland high school where he works as a coach and security guard when a student armed with a black shotgun appeared in the doorway.
Read moreA 16-year-old Colorado student accused of shooting his classmates last week was charged as an adult Wednesday and faces first-degree murder charges.
Read moreA security guard credited with capturing one of the two suspects in this week’s suburban Denver school shooting fired his weapon inside the school, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Read moreThe three students who disarmed a gunman in Colorado’s latest school shooting leapt up from their desks without a word and with no thought for their own safety when they spotted the gun, one of the young men recounted Wednesday.
Read morealifornia has overhauled its sex education guidance for public school teachers, encouraging them to talk about gender identity with kindergartners and give advice to LGBT teenagers for navigating relationships and having safe sex.
Read moreMore Florida teachers will be able to carry guns in the classroom under a bill Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Wednesday that immediately implements recommendations from a commission formed after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland.
Read moreThe Colorado district attorney prosecuting Tuesday’s shooting at a Denver-area school asked the community to focus on the victims Wednesday morning, rather than the identities of the two suspects.
Read moreTwo high school students shot and killed a classmate and injured eight others at a charter school in a Colorado community that marked the 20th anniversary of one of the nation’s worst school shootings just weeks ago.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris finished a two-day swing through Michigan on Monday with campaign events at two Detroit-area elementary schools in front of crowds of spirited supporters, calling teachers “superheroes” and promising to raise their wages.
Read moreDemocratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke was awarded an honorary degree Saturday at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, urging graduates to “find joy in the work ahead” while warning of the growing influence of the powerful and privileged.
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