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The Education Department alleged that Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools' policy not to disclose a student's transgender status even to parents violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
The state's school administrative units will soon be required to craft their own budgets and voters will be empowered to vote down those budgets, under a law that Republicans hope will help drive down K12 costs.
Tennessee education officials are praising improvements across all subject areas, though some early learning gains are lost as students move through middle school.
For the first time, Indiana’s school board elections in November will be partisan, due to a change in state law. Here’s a breakdown of central Indiana’s candidates by party.
The Board of Election Commissioners said Tuesday it dismiss dual-circulation challenges to school board candidates’ petitions. The decision prevents 22 candidates from being removed from the ballot in one fell swoop, though individuals could still get kicked off on a case-by-case basis.
Texas students will be required to read Bible passages and learn about the role of Christianity in the state's history under new reading lists and social studies curriculum approved on Friday
After a power failure knocked out electricity in parts of Lānaʻi High and Elementary School in 2021, the state set up temporary electrical lines to get the lights back on. Five years later, the so-called temporary lines are still there. Four portable classrooms and a building housing the boys’ locker room were affected…
The "Future Ready SLPS" report outlines an overhaul of the city’s public school system in the face of decades of declining enrollment and ballooning costs of salaries, benefits and transportation along with aging infrastructure that is proving too expensive to maintain.
The U.S. Department of Education may no longer be able to fully support students, it says in an internal report that lays bare the full extent of the Trump Administration’s first round of government cuts. The department lost about 40% of its staff from the day Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025 through March […]