Schools

In a bill introduced in the North Carolina House, lawmakers seek to prohibit schools in the state from teaching concepts related to critical race theory, which focuses on institutional racism in the U.S.

A teacher, seven eighth-graders and a school staff member were the nine pronounced dead, with 21 others hospitalized, in Kazan. Russian media said the suspect was a former student at the school.

A parent's Facebook post that detailed how a high school baseball coach allegedly made a racist remark against his son has resulted in the coach's firing.

"Parents of transgender children ... now realize their kids' lives and dignity were used as a legislative bargaining chip," a state LGBTQ organization said about the legislator's actions.

The nine-year-old underwent three weeks of treatment at a hospital, including seven surgical procedures, due to internal bleeding following the incident.

Two bills working their way through the Texas legislature will place limits on how schools teach issues around racism and sexism.

A lull in school shootings during the COVID pandemic is all but certain to end as students return to the classroom from a mentally exhausting lockdown in an increasingly armed society.

Some Florida school districts allow the use of corporal punishment but not the district where the principal works.

Idaho has just passed a law prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory in schools and universities.

A class of fourth graders in upstate New York were given a worksheet that was not approved by the local school district.

"We shouldn't go back to the schools of March 2020—that's a low bar," Cardona said.

With 51,000 more students set to return to in-person learning in New York City, the total number of students in classrooms of the country's largest school district is still low.

Public education may have reached a crossroads. We really wanted it to work, but millions of women exited the workforce to educate their children during the coronavirus pandemic and many may not come back.

Anti-LGBTQ protesters stood outside the home of a Brevard Public School Board member after the issuance of new guidelines accommodating transgender students.

According to a new survey released by the Biden administration, nearly 46 percent of public schools offered five days a week of in-person learning to all students in February, but just 34 percent of students were learning full time in the classroom.

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The school claims that installing CCTV cameras in the bathrooms has been a standard practice for several years. The cameras "do not cover the urinal area or the inside of cubicles," said a spokesperson.

Victoria Education Minister James Merlino announced that lessons about consent would be mandatory in Victoria state schools from April.

The company claims the software is now back up, but social media erupted in the time it was down on Thursday morning.