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President Trump has made targeting protections for LGBTQ students a key part of his second term. Denver Public Schools says it is determining its next steps.
The transit authority has agreed to restore some bus lines that serve students after they were eliminated as part of sweeping transit cuts.
At M.S. 50, educators believe that student debaters make the best arguments when they believe what they’re saying — and it draws on their own experiences.
Renovations to the former Forest Manor Middle School building are part of a new beginning for Andrew J. Brown Academy, which broke ties with a for-profit charter operator last year.
The department had mulled moving its division handling public school safety from a community bureau to the office of Chief of Department John Chell.
MSCS earned the highest score in the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System for the fourth year in a row. But younger students lost progress in social studies, falling behind expected growth.
One remembered floating corpses. Another recalled kids living without their parents. And getting laid off couldn’t keep a determined math teacher and football coach away from the city’s students.
The resignation of the Irvington Community Schools board chair — and the vote to remove a second member from the board — follows heightened criticism from students, parents, and staff over conflicts of interest in the charter network’s search for a new CEO.
Though the district is still behind statewide averages, it has shown consistent improvement over the course of 11 years.
A student is chronically absent if they miss 10% or more of their school days. The new data is bad news for the state’s goal to cut chronic absenteeism in half.
Dan Weisberg, the system’s second-in-command, and Deputy Chancellor Emma Vadehra, are stepping down. The pair were leading implementation of a new class size mandate.
Beech Grove is teaming up with the programs run by Stride/K12 to respond to growth in virtual enrollment.
State Superintendent Michael Rice said the Michigan Legislature must provide children with lower class sizes in high poverty K-3 classrooms, more in-person instructional time, and funding for more research-based early literacy materials.
The public hearing to discuss and vote on extending Superintendent Roger León’s contract is not listed on the district’s website, but is scheduled to take place in September.
In a potentially final bid to whip up support for its budget, CPS officials said the desire to reimburse the city for a much-debated pension payment and taking out a $200 million loan would result in cuts to schools and a credit downgrade for the district.
Mayor Brandon Johnson picked Ángel Vélez, a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant and native Puerto Rican who lives in West Englewood, to represent neighborhoods from Canaryville to Auburn Gresham. He will be sworn in the same day the school board is set to take a pivotal budget vote ahead of a Friday deadline to get a spending plan in place.