Public Schools

COVID-19 has changed so much about our country—how we work, how we travel, and how we educate.

Days after the Uvalde school shooting at Robb Elementary School, Texas, insensitive and fictitious narratives have emerged online targeting the victims.

Most left-wing commentators claim that the widespread backlash against CRT from parents is a hoax perpetrated by right-wing propagandists.

The mounting hysteria over a purported plague of "book banning" stems in part from the common confusion between government sponsorship and government censorship.

It was once assumed in the United States that parents, not the state, have the primary role in raising children. But not according to President Joe Biden.

If the Left continues to ignore the righteous concerns of parents, the school budget realities and political consequences will only get worse.

Will schools notify and defer to parents before treating children as if they are the opposite sex?

The books under scrutiny largely focus on topics like sexual orientation, race and gender identity.

In the fall, nearly 75 percent of the nation's top 500 districts required masks in schools. This week, that figure has fallen more than 25 percent.

The withdrawal was replaced by another amendment that would provide protections that the original text prohibited.

Eight in 10 superintendents say that navigating politically divisive conversations is the most challenging part of their job today.

Real progressives who care about real change for our community should throw their weight behind school choice.

Parents have said the complicated process for accessing testing and other programs have deterred some families from even trying to access the programs.

While some parents don't think the agreement went far enough, others are organizing to prevent the deal's guaranteed masking from being enforced.

Two days after Chicago Public Schools announced it would continue requiring masks, New Jersey and Delaware both announced plans to lift mandates in schools.

One parent told Newsweek her son's local school council purchased their own KN95 masks while waiting on the district to distribute the ones promised.

By the time some parents have received their child's results, the recommended five-day isolation period for unvaccinated kids has already passed.

More likely than not, those who are calling the school board's action "book banning" are trying to divert attention from the real issue.

"Y'all have got to find another way to communicate to your base," state Representative Ramon Alexander told his Republican counterparts on Wednesday.

"I think of [the ban of his book 'Maus'] as a harbinger of things to come," the author and illustrator said.

Students could sue school districts for shutting down discussions of their sexual identity, even if the new bill prohibits teachers from talking about it.

"There was no book that I read that brought me to who I am," state Senator Shevirn Jones, the first openly gay Black person elected to the legislature, said.

Jakob Ondrey said the CPS' claim that it isn't required to provide COVID data "is offensive and dismissive to the 333,000 students in CPS and their families."

"It's bigger than they can even show—all the different firms will make your head spin," one parent said.

The 2020–2021 school year saw charter school enrollment increase by seven percent, compared to the year before.

Considering how teachers are treated, it's no surprise that they're quitting.

Robert Bastress told Newsweek that even West Virginia's "fairly conservative" Supreme Court "would seriously question" the constitutionality of HB 4071.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's education campaign mapped out a successful path to office, but teachers worry political promises won't do enough for schools.

Michigan Democrats were forced to delete a controversial post after echoing the former Virginia governor's remarks on parental rights in public education.

"You get a sense of 'I'm not really witnessing [critical race theory debate] in my classroom'," AAE Executive Director Colin Sharkey told Newsweek.