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Thousands of California school employees have received preliminary pink slips in recent weeks as districts scrabble to close budget gaps caused by falling enrollment and rising costs. Most went to school administrators and classified school staff, such as clerks, administrative assistants and paraeducators. Districts w…
A federal judge in Massachusetts has halted enforcement of several key vaccine policies imposed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ruling that the Trump administration illegally overhauled a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee dedicated to issuing immunization recommendations.
The District of Columbia Public Schools violated the civil rights of students with disabilities and created an “adversarial system,” that often forces families to sue in order for their kids to receive services, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday. After a yearlong investigation, the department’s Offic…
Dylan Lopez Contreras, the first New York City public school student detained by federal immigration officials during President Donald Trump’s second term, was released Tuesday night after spending 10 months in federal custody, according to his mother and his legal team. Dylan, now 21, was a student at ELLIS Preparator…
Lawmakers in the Michigan Legislature, alarmed by students’ troubling performance in reading, want to ensure that teachers receive training in the science of reading, which emphasizes phonics along with building vocabulary and background knowledge.
The California School Boards Association points the finger at state government and proposes a suite of bills to spur progress in narrowing achievement gaps.
A new bill aims to automatically reclassify students as "fluent and English-proficient" when they score 4 on the proficiency exam.
Late last week, the Chicago school board released the names of three finalists for the district’s top job. Some Latino community leaders have since criticized that in a district where almost half the students are Latino, there are no Latinos on the list of frontrunners.