Pennsylvania moves to expand education funding statewide

District Administration Read More ​ Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has issued cease and desist letters to three St. Louis County school districts. Bailey said he has received reports that the Lindbergh, Parkway and Webster Groves school districts have been discriminating against students and staff based on their religion or race. Bailey accused the Webster…

Tech & Learning Read More ​Students writing by hand have more active brains than when they typing, researchers recently found.  ​

This story is based on original reporting from Minnesota Public Radio and Elizabeth Shockman It’s been four years since Minnesota schools first shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 15, 2020, Governor Tim Walz ordered schools to temporarily close with just 35 confirmed cases in the state. Students like eighth-grader Raeline McVicker were…

The 74 Read More ​ On Feb. 7, a 16-year-old nonbinary student at Owasso High School in Oklahoma was involved in an altercation in a girls’ bathroom. On Feb. 8, Nex Benedict, who used they/them pronouns and whose family claims roots in the Choctaw Nation, was pronounced dead at a local hospital.  Nearly two weeks…

The 74 Read More ​ When the Democratic “trifecta” in control of Minnesota’s House, Senate and governor’s office announced last spring’s K-12 education finance bill, there weren’t enough superlatives in the thesaurus to fuel the sound bites. The more than $2.2 billion in “new” spending on public schools was “historic.” The number of initiatives funded…

“k12 education” – Google News Read More ​University of Memphis could become its own K-12 school district under new legislation  Chalkbeat (Feed generated with FetchRSS)  ​