Massachusetts public schools may have to rearrange locker rooms, restrooms, and sports teams to comply with a new interpretation of laws prohibiting discrimination against transgender children.
Unfunded government employee pensions are gobbling many states’ education budgets, leaving governments scrambling to find money to cover those in addition to school operating costs.
Economist Jonathan Williams says one way to solve state pension funding problems is to give local governments more control over and responsibility for their employees’ pensions.
The nation’s largest abortion provider will soon teach more public school students about sex, thanks to federal funding in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Students nationwide are brown-bagging lunches, writing lawmakers, and making YouTube videos about the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, complaining its rules leave them, well, hungry.
Principals still rate more than 99 percent of Michigan teachers in large districts “effective” or “highly effective” this year despite low student achievement, a recent survey shows.
If a bill before the Michigan House passes, parents whose children attend the state’s worst public schools could require one of four potential reforms by signing a petition.
Utah is home to seven of the 10 lowest-spending school districts in the country, according to a recent study by efficiency research nonprofit Govistics.
Kristine Paulsen, who led a school resource room within an Michigan Indian reservation, once purchased a computer game to help fifth- and sixth-grade students learn about American history.
Jacobs High School student Allison Leja of Algonquin, Illinois sued Carpentersville-based Community Unit School District 300 after she was allegedly hit in the face in the gymnasium by a...
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