Board members have floated the idea as a potential way to right-size the district, but have stressed they would not act on it without community input.
Detroit school district agrees to controversial condition for state mental health and safety funding
Districts must agree to state investigations if a mass casualty event happens in order to get the funds.
Recent data doesn’t definitively prove all closings lead to higher gun violence, but they do show areas where it worsened after closure that can’t be explained by citywide spikes.
Each of the schools at risk of closing this year will have a meeting over the next two months. The first will be at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at Frayser-Corning Elementary School.
Board members have floated the idea as a potential way to right-size the district, but have stressed they would not act on it without community input.
A spokesman for the Michigan Department of Education said a policy change for the after-school snack program would have to go through the federal government.
Despite a City Councilmember’s support for the sale of a vacant Ada Lewis building, district officials say the school board has not been involved in conversations about selling it.
The new test scores also show a statewide decline in reading proficiency.
Youngquist didn’t say much before the censure vote. He has previously said that the investigation was retaliatory and he intends ‘to take legal action.’
Michigan law allows parents to opt their children out of sex education lessons.
The new 2025-27 teacher contract bumps the minimum starting salary to $54,800.
Last year, more than 27,000 of the city’s roughly 136,000 free child care seats for kids ages 4 and under went unfilled, about 1 in every 5 seats.
We’ve got answers to that and other questions from a new tranche of state testing data
Student privacy and mental health advocates are concerned about a no-cost contract between the school district and for-profit Hazel Health, which is set to renew in December.
Nearly all of the city’s eighth graders who took the Specialized High School Admissions Test this week had no issues with the new computerized format.
The $1,000 grants allow qualifying students to get tutoring from approved vendors.
DPSCD has schools tailored to students’ interests and career pathways. Here’s what to consider before applying.
A Tennessee school district is asking a federal judge to dismiss a Williamson County teacher’s First Amendment lawsuit after it reinstated her at Franklin High School.
The city’s highest-need schools stand to benefit the least from the new class size caps, and a group of advocates want to give the city time to negotiate changes to the law.
The district’s mobile food pantry will be at Raleigh-Egypt High School on Nov. 17 and Douglass High School on Nov. 22, starting at 9:30 a.m.
The new state budget also includes $10 million for literacy instruction and initiatives.
The TEDxCU club at the University of Colorado Boulder felt it needed to change plans after the September Charlie Kirk shooting at Utah Valley University.
Increased mayoral control over Indianapolis Public Schools and the city’s charters could mirror how schools are run in New York City and Washington, D.C. But would it work smoothly with Unigov?
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Backed by a five-year $3.75 million federal grant, Rutgers University will train special education teachers for administrative roles.
The legislation, supported by 47 of the City Council’s 51 members, would bring relief to thousands of paraprofessionals, whose starting salary is $32,000.
The budget will send $193 million more to Philly schools and add accountability reforms for cyber charter schools, among other changes.
Christian law firm’s search for test case led to religious public school in Colorado, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
MSCS has four schools with designated deaf education programs. But parents say there aren’t enough ASL interpreters or trained teachers to help students succeed.
The schools will also be paired with financial educators who will help lead workshops and offer information about topics from money management basics to spotting financial scams.
Teachers who survived school shootings are banding together to form a crisis intervention team
Johnson teaches fourth grade at Central Elementary in Plainfield. She shared her love of reading, a project she pitched with students to the principal, and the best advice she’s ever received.
The district’s inspector general issued a special report flagging lax travel spending oversight and excessive professional development trips.
Educators said they feel unprepared to face immigration enforcement and want more training.
Many have claimed that there’s been a generational pivot away from college, but the data doesn’t back that up.
Here’s what experts told Chalkbeat about where the child care system stands now and what it will take to make it free for all.
Black students, children with disabilities, and those living in foster care were disproportionately removed from their classrooms.
It’s one of many proposals put forward by the district's facilities committee to help address over $1 billion in MSCS maintenance costs over the next decade.
State lawmakers say they could be nearing a budget deal. But the delay has already been costly for schools.
A new bill would ban for-profit charter schools, require them to post a range of documents online, and impose residency requirements for some charter school trustees.
The teacher contract up for vote this week offers a minimum increase of $1,510 in year one and $1,010 in year two.
The foundation has gotten so many requests that it can’t fully fund them all.
Angelo Imperati, an award-winning fifth grade teacher at P.S. 75 in the Bronx, focuses on making learning fun and relevant. He also found time to start a student basketball league.