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Getting ready for back to school season? As schools reopen for the academic year, we hope these stories, resources, and essays help students, teachers, and parents have a smoother transition.
Students in juvenile detention often don’t receive required special education support and struggle to reengage with school when they’re released.
New York City schools are increasingly adopting restorative justice practices, but are students bought into the new approach? A student journalist investigates.
Websder Corneille uses own journey as a Haitian immigrant to build connections with students and their caregivers. His job goes beyond serving students and the school to serving the community
Here’s how our school librarian fostered our love of reading and new ideas.
Policy changes and budget cuts could deprive immigrant students of the safe, engaging learning environments they deserve.
Students in juvenile detention often don’t receive required special education support and struggle to reengage with school when they’re released.
A group of seven mothers who serve as parent mentors in Chicago Public Schools are trying to help families in their communities amid the Trump administration’s increased immigration enforcement in Chicago.
The request for a Supreme Court hearing comes about six weeks after a federal appeals court ruled against the Catholic preschools.
Districts must agree to state investigations if a mass casualty event happens in order to get the funds.
Recent data doesn’t definitively prove all closings lead to higher gun violence, but they do show areas where it worsened after closure that can’t be explained by citywide spikes.
Each of the schools at risk of closing this year will have a meeting over the next two months. The first will be at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at Frayser-Corning Elementary School.
Board members have floated the idea as a potential way to right-size the district, but have stressed they would not act on it without community input.
A spokesman for the Michigan Department of Education said a policy change for the after-school snack program would have to go through the federal government.
Despite a City Councilmember’s support for the sale of a vacant Ada Lewis building, district officials say the school board has not been involved in conversations about selling it.
The new test scores also show a statewide decline in reading proficiency.
Youngquist didn’t say much before the censure vote. He has previously said that the investigation was retaliatory and he intends ‘to take legal action.’
Michigan law allows parents to opt their children out of sex education lessons.
The new 2025-27 teacher contract bumps the minimum starting salary to $54,800.
Last year, more than 27,000 of the city’s roughly 136,000 free child care seats for kids ages 4 and under went unfilled, about 1 in every 5 seats.
We’ve got answers to that and other questions from a new tranche of state testing data
Student privacy and mental health advocates are concerned about a no-cost contract between the school district and for-profit Hazel Health, which is set to renew in December.