Education & Schools
Education & schools are central to the mission of local and state government agencies. They focus on providing quality education, ensuring equitable access, and supporting the development of students from early childhood through higher education. Governments work to create policies, fund programs, and oversee the operation of public schools to foster academic success and prepare students for future challenges. This directory offers articles on education and schools and related topics like Education Grants, which explore funding opportunities that support educational initiatives and resources.
The abandoned Lexington school will provide training for active shooter situations and other emergencies
The language of the new law states SROs are prohibited from using certain types of restraints when trying to control unruly students
The $230M legislation provides funding for armed SROs at all public schools, increases physical safeguards and enhances mental health services for students
According to the DOJ, “the link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is welded to reading failure.” Over 70% of inmates in America’s prisons cannot read above a fourth grade level
When a school system wants to remove a violent disabled child from those classrooms, the layers of documentation and data-keeping required under the law can take months -- and during that time, other children have been severely injured.
A report last year from the Learning Policy Institute found that the nation’s public schools are among the most inequitably funded of any in the industrialized world
School systems in Florida, Kentucky and Texas also have implemented threat assessment requirements for the 2019-2020 school year, and Washington State will join them in 2020-2021.
A federal judge has ordered the city of Gardendale, Alabama, to pay nearly $740,000 in legal fees to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and another $106,400 in expenses for its 2014 attempt to create a predominantly white school district within city limits.
Police yellow tape and makeshift memorials with flowers, stuffed animals and balloons have become common in some neighborhoods of this deeply segregated city.
New year. New decade. New goals. New fiscal year. New budgets. New grants. New programs.
About 75% of school districts nationally reported unpaid meal debt, with the median amount per school being about $2,500, according to The Washington Post, which cited the national School Nutrition Association.
Facing an audience of teachers and parents, seven candidates vowed to overhaul an education system that they say helps the rich, hurts the poor and fails to pay teachers the salaries they deserve.
“This latest Grand Jury report confirms what many of us have feared,” said Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, “that our schools are still not as safe as they could be.”
Seven years after the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy, some young people in Newtown, still struggling with the trauma, are emerging as new voices for school safety and gun violence prevention.
Experts say anybody carrying guns, including teachers, needs ongoing, intensive training to be able to handle their firearms proficiently and respond appropriately in stressful settings — and many law enforcement officers don’t even get that.
The student involved in the shooting at Waukesha South High School last week said he wanted to scare students who had picked on him — or might pick on him in the future — and that “other kids would hear about this and be scared.”
For columnist Tom Moran, it’s been frustrating that Cory Booker’s accomplishments have drawn almost no attention during his presidential campaign, so he’d like to set the record straight.
The narrative that Americans are constantly moving within the country is no longer true, so federal and local policy will need to shift toward “place-based” policies, emphasizing training and education, along with developing industries tailored to local skills and resources.
Atlanta’s Phoenix Academy principal Evelyn Mobley has focused not just on academics but also social services, like an onsite daycare where students can drop off their children before heading to class.
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