Increasingly, school discipline doesn’t mean detention — it means jail time. That has a measurable impact on children, and particularly on disabled children and children of color. Depending on the state, students…
Republican state senator Alan Clark of Arkansas is telling under-performing schools to give him their lunch money. Clark proposed a bill that would penalize low literacy rates in schools by reducing that…
The West Virginia House of Delegates, which is controlled by Republicans, has just voted to table a Republican bill that would have undermined public schools. Delegates voted by a margin of 53-45…
More than 2,100 educators in Denver, Colorado’s 161 public schools are walking out Monday, in what is the district’s first teacher strike in more than two decades. And in at least one…
The Oakland Education Association — the union representing teachers in Oakland, California — has overwhelmingly voted to strike. According to San Francisco Chronicle reporter Kimberly Veklerov, Oakland teachers expect their strike to…
Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) is casting himself as a progressive in his newly announced presidential bid, but he’ll have some explaining to do to primary voters. And, according to the New…
When the November elections rolled around, they did more than . They heralded a host of smaller, statewide races signaling that the voting public had turned hostile to the anti-education policies of…
(EDITOR’S NOTE, 10/8/18, 3:01 PM ET: This article has been updated to clarify that the school remains unnamed by local media. This article will be updated in the event the name of…
Last week, to little notice or fanfare, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos fired a shot across the bow of the Constitution. Speaking to the Alfred E. Smith Foundation, which raises money for Catholic…
Texas parents and teachers of students were in an uproar this week after a teacher gave her 8th grade class an assignment to list the “positive aspects” of slavery. The assignment came…