ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two Albuquerque Public Schools leaders are heading to a White House summit to talk about chronic absenteeism within the school district. A spokesperson for APS says for the 2022-2023 school year, 38% of students were chronically absent. That is defined as students missing 10% or more school days since the beginning of the []
Video of previous coverage of Springfield's Yondr pouch purchase DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) -- Gov. Mike DeWine has signed House Bill 250 into law, requiring school districts to develop guidelines around cellphone use during school hours. The Ohio Senate and House of Representatives unanimously passed the bill. DeWine was joined by Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, State []
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A student accused of bringing a gun to an Albuquerque high school is back at home after the juvenile detention center wouldn't take him. This after Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen spoke at the same high school just hours earlier. “We don't have time, we need a short-term solution,” said Sheriff John Allen. []
Schools changed their names after 2020 George Floyd protests, but will now revert to old names celebrating slave-state leadersAn all-white school board in Virginia has voted to restore the names of Robert E Lee and other Confederate military leaders to two public schools in a backlash to the racial reckoning that followed the police murder of George Floyd.The decision to restore the names of Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Turner Ashby was taken on Friday morning by the six-member school board in...
Miles says the report is a mischaracterization. The TEA is investigating. We discuss in our political roundup.
A little-known law passed in 2023 requires public schools to teach "the reasons adoption is preferable to abortion" in grades 6-12
Some of us may remember the Helen Lovejoy character in The Simpsons, who would appear any time some catastrophe befell the town and plaintively wail, “Won’t someone please think of the children?!” The joke here, of course, is that as long as you do something in the name of helping children, it must be right, and you
Parents, children, and supporters of school choice have cause to celebrate this National Charter Schools Week. Charter schools earned the top two spots on a Read More
The referendum has failed by 453 votes, according to unofficial results Tuesday evening.
Jamestown Public Schools students will read “Because of Winn-Dixie” as part of a national literacy program. The “One District, One Book” program will start Monday when all elementary students and fifth graders at Jefferson Middle school will bring home a copy of the book by Kate DiCamillo to start reading it with families and class. […]
The proposal comes in the wake of budget cuts and a looming financial cliff.
The state Department of Education will hold a community meeting Tuesday to discuss options for a permanent site for the King Kamehameha III Elementary School campus, which was damaged beyond repair in the Aug. 8 wildfires on Maui.