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Liberty Elementary School students wave the flags of different Latin American countries at the annual Hispanic Heritage Month presentation Friday. The girl second in line is waving the Puerto Rican flag, and students performed a dance in honor of the U.S. territory slowly recovering from widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.
The Kansas Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated ruling Monday instructing Kansas lawmakers to adopt a more reasonable strategy for increased funding of K-12 public school districts and to prove its plan complies with the state constitution. The Supreme Court declared lawmakers' current funding plan unconstitutional and gave the Kansas Legislature until next year to once and for all solve persistent problems with allocation of state aid to public education.
Summary : The superintendent of an Air Force Academy made it clear to those at the academy that racial slurs would not be tolerated. When racial slurs were found scrawled across the doors of the black students at the U.S. Air Force Academy's preparatory school, Superintendent Lt.
At the Berkeley School Board meeting Sept. 27, junior Laelah Jackson and other students talk about the distress caused by an offensive Instagram account and call for consequences for its creators.
Gov. Nathan Deal and U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson were among those celebrating the opening of the Opal and Alton McWhorter Music Center at Whitesburg Elementary School on Thursday. "Whitesburg Elementary will be the only elementary school in the nation that has an innovation piano lab of this type," said Carroll County Schools Superintendent Scott Cowart.
The latest polls show Republican Kim Guadagno trailing Democrat Phil Murphy by almost a 2-1 margin in the race for governor Certainly not New Jersey's status as a "blue" state. The reality is that we're mostly red when it comes to gubernatorial elections.
Ohio has spent billions on school buildings over the past 20 years, but U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and local school officials say it hasn't been enough. Between state funding caps, diversions to charter schools and other issues, the Columbus City School District has scores of buildings in need of renovation, they said.
Sept. 17 marks the 230th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Sadly, this is one of the many facts of which students in our public schools are largely unaware.
September 17th marks the 230th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Sadly, this is one of the many facts of which students in our public schools are largely unaware.
AP photo Gov. Bruce Rauner signs education funding reform bill SB 1947 on Aug. 31 at Ebinger Elementary School in Chicago. Democratic-leaning Illinois is the latest state to direct taxpayer money to private schools, a move that's caught some by surprise and drawn condemnation from politically powerful teacher unions and Democrats looking to defeat GOP Gov. Rauner in 2018.
The Santa Rita Union School District board of trustees voted to have school resource officers in the district during a special meeting on Wednesday. Santa Rita Union approves school resource officers for district The Santa Rita Union School District board of trustees voted to have school resource officers in the district during a special meeting on Wednesday.
The state legislature's budget-writing committee has signed-off on a plan that will increase education funding from the state by $639 million over the next two years. The package of changes approved by the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee on Monday includes an increase in per-pupil funding, raises income eligibility caps for private school vouchers, and puts restrictions on when school districts can hold referenda votes.
The Illinois House has approved a new school funding plan on a second attempt, minutes after lawmakers failed to override Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's changes to a separate plan preferred by teacher unions. Lawmakers voted 73-34 Monday to send the legislation to the Senate.
A Wisconsin school district is asking the Supreme Court to review an appeals court's decision allowing a transgender teenager to use the boys' bathroom while the student's lawsuit proceeds through the courts. Ashton Whitaker, a biological 18-year-old girl who identifies as a male and has reportedly begun hormone replacement therapy, challenged as discriminatory a policy that directs boys and girls to use the bathroom that comports with the gender listed on their birth certificates.
Norco College is at odds with some residents, city elected officials and the Navy over its plans to build a second road in and out of the campus to improve traffic. College President Bryan Reece is restarting a push for another access road to unclog traffic jams at the only entrance and exit to the campus at Third Street off Hamner Avenue.
A Washington state high school football coach took advantage of his position when he prayed on the field after games, and he's not entitled to immediately get his job back, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. District Court of Appeals unanimously held that Bremerton High coach Joe Kennedy's prayers did not constitute protected free speech because he was acting as a public employee, not a private citizen, when he conducted them.
A former South Bay high school teacher who pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography was sentenced to 97 months in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. Roberto Antonio Sandoval previously admitted to downloading and owning thousands of images of child pornography, some of which depicted children under the age of 12, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
State Superintendent Tony Evers on Wednesday became the latest Democrat to join an increasingly crowded primary field for governor, touting his years of experience leading Wisconsin schools as making him the best Democratic candidate to challenge Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Evers, 65, said his experience makes him even more qualified than Walker to be governor.