Students at dozens of Houston ISD schools will not start classes for at least another week as the state’s largest school district continues to assess damage from Hurricane Harvey. Superintendent Richard Carranza announced Thursday that the first wave of students at more than 200 schools will return to class on Monday, Sept. 11, as originally […]
Houston school district approves $1.2 M to rename schools honoring the Confederacy. The divisive plan goes into effect for the 2016-17 school year.
Jim Crow is back. The notion of a post-racial society after President Barack Obama was elected as the nation’s first black president has just been blown up: America’s public schools are re-segregating at an alarming rate. Decades of racial progress in public schools is now being erased, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report […]
A survey found that students brought more than 185 guns to school so far for this academic year. The group that conducted the survey laments that there's no federal gun safety law in place.
Harford County officials blame Freddy Gray's death and the city's past history of unrest for why it’s “not safe” to visit.
Atrocious school conditions prompted the union to seek outside help to show the DPS just how harmful the lack of resources are for children.
In the face of a $480 million budget gap, an estimated 200 Chicago Public Schools employees are expected to receive pink slips in the latest round of belt-tightening at the nation's fourth largest school district.
Michigan's water crisis in Flint has also opened up concern for the state's school issues in Detroit, U.S. Uncut reports.
Investigators are still trying to find when the threat was made and who's behind it.
Police in California have confirmed that all Los Angeles Unified School District schools were closed Tuesday morning due to a credible bomb threat, the LA Times reports. It is unclear when the threat was made and to which school board member, but the situation prompted the LAUSD to close all schools effective immediately, according to […]
Chicago Public Schools Chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett has resigned from office amid a federal investigation into a $20.5 million no-bid contract to one of her former…
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