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A third-grader was found with a loaded gun this week, the fourth time this year the district has uncovered a student with a gunA second Michigan school district has banned backpacks on school premises due to concerns about gun violence, after a third-g…
Lost students, dwindling relief funds and a juggernaut of new schooling options could portend layoffs and school closuresThree years and counting since the pandemic shuttered schools and tethered students to their laptops, new data shows that enrollmen…
Dennis Maliq Barnes of New Orleans announces he will attend Cornell University this fall to study computer scienceThe 16-year-old American high schooler who set what is believed to be a US record after collecting more than $10m in college scholarship o…
Calls mount for Elizabeth Hoover, anthropologist at UC Berkeley who said she had Indigenous heritage, to resignA University of California at Berkeley anthropologist known for her work on food justice in Native American communities is under fire after s…
Stanley Kurtz’s crusade against ‘woke civics’ in schools has shaped Republican bills across the USWhen two US senators – a Texas Republican and a Delaware Democrat – introduced a bill in June 2022 to expand grants for civics education, most observers s…
Hope Carrasquilla, forced to resign after parents condemned Michelangelo’s statue as pornography, invited to FlorenceA Florida principal who resigned after parents at her school decried Michelangelo’s David statue as pornography has traveled to Florenc…
Republican-backed culture warrior candidates fare poorly in Illinois and Wisconsin, offering hope to the leftScores of rightwing extremists were defeated in school board elections in April, in a victory for the left in the US and what Democrats hope co…
Approval of bill prohibiting discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity comes at the request of Governor Ron DeSantis Florida’s board of education has approved the expansion of the state’s so-called “don’t say gay” bill, which now prohibits …
Substitute teacher at Kimbrough middle school in Mesquite helped coordinate fights during class, officials sayA substitute teacher at a Texas middle school was fired for encouraging students to fight in class.The unnamed teacher at Kimbrough middle sch…
Agreement will increase wages by 30%, provide a $1,000 Covid bonus and expand family healthcare benefitsLos Angeles unified school district workers have approved a labor deal after a three-day strike last month over wages and staffing that halted educa…