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Getting ready for back to school season? As schools reopen for the academic year, we hope these stories, resources, and essays help students, teachers, and parents have a smoother transition.
The $10 million child care pilot program is expected to create hundreds of new seats in high-need communities. The spending blueprint would also boost funding for preschoolers with disabilities.
No one told me ‘you’ll miss cafeteria noise,’ or ‘you’ll feel phantom pain for your walkie talkie,’ but I did.
Here’s what I learned developing a unit on the Underground Railroad - and why we changed course.
I come from a family of distinguished debaters. I also suffer from chronic migraines. Something had to give.
The subway is the one place where I’m not expected to do anything for anybody. My job is merely to exist.
The $10 million child care pilot program is expected to create hundreds of new seats in high-need communities. The spending blueprint would also boost funding for preschoolers with disabilities.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of religious parents seeking the right to opt their children out of LGBTQ+ material. The decision will change how teachers approach inclusivity in their classrooms.
Tras las redadas migratorias de alto perfil, el Distrito Unificado de Los Ángeles aumentó las sedes para las escuelas de verano y ofreció transporte adicional para responder al temor de las familias de ser detenidas durante el trayecto.
District sees an opportunity for educators to write quiz questions, develop schedules, and write newsletters more efficiently.
While it’s not quite the ‘year-round school’ Mayor Cherelle Parker campaigned on, the initiative will offer before- and after-school programs and camp activities at 15 new schools.
Beyond High School: Pell Grant uncertainty
Families in Montgomery County, Maryland, are allowed to opt their children out of reading books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes if the content conflicts with their religious beliefs, the Supreme Court decided. A federal appeals court will continue to consider the parents’ case.
Melissa Reed will fill a seat left empty after a long-serving member abruptly resigned last month.
Board members said that low test scores at KIPP North Philadelphia Academy and People for People Charter School led them to start a process that could close the schools.
John Marshall school building has sat empty since its closure in 2018. But the east-side property may soon get a new life.
The $734 million funding gap assumes the district will reimburse the city for a pension payment that covers school district and city workers.
The district ‘knowingly and regularly’ failed to make necessary asbestos repairs and endangered students, according to federal officials.
There are two bills that would address cellphone use in Michigan schools. It’s uncertain which proposal will pass.
DPSCD is already phasing out some small schools. But various solutions are being weighed for others.
The state spent around $497 million on the Choice Scholarship program in 2024-25, an increase of just over $58 million from the previous year.
Officials hope the new role will help create a pipeline of new school safety agents, a workforce that has declined 28% over the past five years. Critics say teens should not be involved in school safety.