Since students across the state returned to classrooms nearly a month ago, Tennessee has drawn nationwide attention for skyrocketing COVID cases among children.
In turn, quarantines, too, have skyrocketed, impacting students, parents, and caretakers for weeks at a time.
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The school board voted to ratify the contract at its Thursday board meeting nearly four months after the union’s previous contract expired.
Charter school leaders have expressed support for some parts of recommendations advanced by the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance.
If you want to be the education liaison for Detroit’s next mayor, you’ll need a college degree and experience in education policy.
New bills proposed by Indiana lawmakers would make the state’s existing cellphone ban in schools even stricter.
Political scientist Joseph Viteritti chronicles the contributions of education researchers, lawyers, theorists, and activists — many of them Black men and women — who believed that all children could learn and that what happens in schools matters.
Of the bottom 10 states in the country with the lowest number of students completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, nine are western states. Bill DeBaun of the National College Attainment Network has a few theories as to why.
