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OKLAHOMA CITY — Legal efforts to found the nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma have reignited, with a rejected Jewish charter school and a former U.S. congressman filing a lawsuit against the state Tuesday. The founding group of Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School and former Florida U.S. Rep. Peter Deutsch,…
Zip-tied, separated from their parents, taunted with slurs, their pleas for help ignored. That’s how children — all U.S. citizens — and their parents described their treatment by federal immigration agents in accounts delivered in Washington, D.C. Tuesday at a joint House and Senate hearing. The teens told lawmakers th…
NYC’s Education Department will cut $58 million as part of a broader push to find hundreds of millions in savings ordered by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
NYC’s AI guidelines outline approved and restricted uses in schools. The takeaway? Bigger issues like privacy, student use, and other gray area cases are unresolved.
Deepfake abuse is rising in schools, but policies, legal protections and education still lag behind. Experts say the gap leaves often underage victims vulnerable to lasting harm.
King has been Chicago Public Schools’ interim CEO since last June. The inclusion of her name in the board’s list of finalist candidates was initially a surprise.
Gov. Josh Stein on Monday outlined his education priorities ahead of this year’s short legislative session, including raising teacher compensation and adding additional school support personnel to meet students’ nonacademic needs. “If we truly believe that kids are the future...
Are you still working toward your New Year’s resolution? By this time of year, most people have long since forgotten their goals to hit the gym or eat healthier foods. Pensions are sort of like New Year’s resolutions. Policymakers always promise, to themselves and to their constituents, that this will be the year they’…
Local organizations train and organize parents, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into coordination and action in Sacramento, according to the bill's supporters.