CPS CEO Pedro Martinez will travel to Springfield this week to ask state lawmakers for more money as they finalize the state budget.
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 []
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
May is National Bike Month, so it might be a good time to get out and go for a ride.
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.
Enrollment at California's public schools continued to decline this year, but by only .25%, or 15,000 students, state data showed, a much slower pace than the steep declines experienced during difficult pandemic years when classes were forced online. A total of 5,837,690 students were enrolled in the 2023-24 school year, according to data released Thursday from the state Department of Education. During the 2020-21 academic year, California experienced the largest drop in 20 years, losing 160,000...