RICHMOND, Va. — A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students with his belt and once choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” according MORE
On the first day of Black History Month, the College Board released a revised curriculum for Advanced Placement coursework in African American Studies in apparent response to criticism from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The board’s MORE
It’s an idea that reflects the real Republican plan: Education is about social control, not learning Dixon complained that her daughter had checked out a book “about having two different homes” and how the very MORE
The right is pushing an aggressive attack on schools — but teachers and students are pushing back It is back to school time in America and the 2022-2023 school year undoubtedly is shaping up to MORE
A Brooklyn Public Library initiative to combat state book bans has landed an Oklahoma teacher in trouble, after a parent there complained her promotion of the resource was itself a violation of state law. Summer MORE
Hundreds of dictionaries earmarked for donation from a Venice Rotary Club sit collecting dust, precluded from being given to Sarasota County students. Even dictionaries aren’t safe from the Sarasota Schools book freeze. Ahead of the MORE
In the midst of a national teacher shortage and a day before the start of the new school year, special education teacher, Michael James, resigned. He claimed in a letter to both Gov. DeSatan and the MORE
George Washington University’s School of Law will have one less adjunct professor this fall. Extreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has ‘canceled’ teaching a seminar this fall after calls to remove him from the position completely. MORE
In a statement, the Dallas Independent School District said, “Starting in the 2022-2023 school year, students in sixth through 12th grade will be required to use clear or mesh backpacks. Other bags will no longer MORE
Last week, just days after the Arizona legislature passed the most expansive school voucher law anywhere in the nation, Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law another education measure decreeing that public school teachers are no longer required to have MORE
Families who bail on public school will get $7,000 per kid in GOP’s new scheme: “Every red state” urged to follow. Last Friday, while the country reeled from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, Arizona MORE
During the 20-21 school year, schools closed down for periods of time to stop the spread of COVID. researchers are now learning that the closures came at a stiff price—a large decline in children’s achievement MORE
Three Democratic Senators have called for an investigation into a student loan cancellation program found not to be living up to its promise. There are 9 million borrowers currently enrolled in income-driven repayment (IDR) plans, MORE
More than 1,000 books about race, racism, LGBTQ individuals and other issues have been banned in U.S. schools over the past nine months, according to a new report. A study from PEN America, a literary MORE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voiced his support for a bill that would prohibit the discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in the state’s primary schools. Asked by reporters at a Miami event Monday, he said it was “entirely MORE
A Texas teacher was placed on administrative leave amid an investigation after she was caught in a viral social media video stating that her junior high school students “utter morons.” In the audio of the video MORE
A profanity laced class introduction on video from a Michigan professor went viral when he called his students “vectors of disease.” Barry Mehler, a Ferris State University professor, opened the video for the class introduction MORE
Christina Sosbe, with her husband on their wedding day Christina Sosbe, 29, formerly of Salem, appeared in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on Monday where she was ordered to spend one year in the Ohio MORE
Posed as a 22-Year-Old Today’s Sunday Sermon A Missouri woman has pleaded guilty to stealing her daughter’s identity to attend college and collect financial aid. Laura A. Oglesby, 48, ruined the younger woman’s credit, a MORE
Last week, Gina Peddy, director of Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction told educators to make sure that “if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also MORE
On Tuesday afternoon, a fight broke out at University of Alabama at Birmingham when a student allegedly attacked some guy man and a woman who identified themselves as preachers. A witness to the incident said MORE
DATELINE: BIGELOW HIGH SHOOL, ARKANSAS – Before delivering the 2020 – 2021 yearbook to students earlier this month, school administrators ripped out a two-page spread depicting a timeline of events from the academic year. Among MORE
On Tuesday, the Newberg Public Schools board voted 4-3 to ban Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ and other “political” signs, flags and articles of clothing from their campuses. At a later date, the Board will vote MORE
Corissa McCalister, 22, took a plea deal in which she admitted to the assault in exchange for a sentence of two years’ probation and 80 hours of community service, according to local CBS affiliate WTRF. MORE
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville mother, Edith Riddle, 34, is charged with child abuse after a fight with another student on the campus of Dupont Middle School last week, a Jacksonville police arrest report states. MORE