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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For six years, city officials propped up school budgets despite steep enrollment declines. It’s now up to Mayor Zohran Mamdani to decide whether to keep the policy or wind it down.
The day ICE agents detained Liam Conejo Ramos was ‘sad and infuriating,’ his school district superintendent said. She’d hoped her students wouldn’t be targeted.
Indiana legislators are advancing a bill banning phones from schools and another to cut low-earning degrees at state universities.
The district’s school closure proposal includes shuttering five magnet or citywide admissions high schools.
Colorado lawmakers want to help prospective teachers who have run into legal trouble. A bill under consideration would only require licensure applicants to disclose misdemeanors that happened within the last seven years.
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