Public Schools

In this Jan. 18, 2018, photo, a safe school zone sign still hangs at the closed Arna Wendell Bontemps Elementary School in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Five years after the nation's largest mass closure of public schools, Chicago is forging ahead with plans to shutter four more in one of the city's highest-crime and impoverished areas while school officials are pitching the new closures in Englewood to make way for a new $85 million school they insist will better serve students and reverse low enrollment.

Chicago school system let thousands of special needs students fall through the cracks

Barnini Chakraborty · August 16, 2021 6:43 pm

Kansas City Public Schools mandate staff get COVID vaccinations or submit to weekly testing

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2021 5:00 pm

School boards fight GOP governors in court over masking bans

Cassidy Morrison · August 15, 2021 10:03 am

Loudoun County teacher says she has no regrets after quitting over CRT lessons

Jake Dima · August 13, 2021 5:32 pm

Textbook manipulation

Grant Addison · August 13, 2021 3:00 am

CDC undermines public trust with mixed messages and shifting goal posts

David Hogberg · August 13, 2021 3:00 am

Alabama’s board of education passes ban on critical race theory ideology

Luke Gentile · August 12, 2021 8:39 pm

In this May 18, 2021 file photo, fifth graders wear face masks are seated at proper social distancing spacing during a music class at the Milton Elementary School in Rye, N.Y. As more children go back to the physical classroom, families are expected to spend robustly on a wide range of items, particularly trendy clothing for the critical back-to-school season, according to one key spending measure.

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Stop the baseless fearmongering about children and the delta variant

Kaylee McGhee White · August 12, 2021 6:07 pm

The Upper Moreland School Board in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania voted this week against allowing one of their school board colleagues from advancing to president of the board because he is a âcis, white male.â

School board activism returns as Loudoun County advances controversial transgender rules

Sarah Bedford · August 12, 2021 11:00 am

President Joe Biden delivers a speech on voting rights at the National Constitution Center, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Philadelphia.

Biden’s equity agenda will make schools less safe

Stacy Washington · August 12, 2021 4:00 am

Texas Gov. Abbott vows to take school districts to court if mask mandates are adopted

Jake Dima · August 12, 2021 1:31 am

Tennessee high school students evacuated after active shooter ‘hoax’

Jake Dima · August 10, 2021 3:01 pm