Gay pride videos shown in a Glendale third-grade classroom have added an intense local chapter to a national debate over how and when lessons on gender identity and sexual orientation should be broached in public schools. The episode unfolded with the disclosure that a teacher at Jefferson Elementary had shown […]
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California public school enrollment drops by 110,000 students
California public school enrollment has dropped for the fifth year in a row — a decline of more than 110,000 students — as K-12 campuses struggle against pandemic disruptions and a shrinking population of school-age kids amid wide concerns that the decrease is so large that educators can’t account for […]
Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions
Public education is facing a crisis unlike anything in decades, and it reaches into almost everything that educators do: from teaching math, to counseling anxious children, to managing the building. Story continues below advertisement Political battles are now a central feature of education, leaving school boards, educators and students in […]
Pandemic-Era Politics Are Ruining Public Education
If you’re an American schoolchild, you’ve probably spent much of your recent life alone at home in the mesmerizing glow of a screen, twitching between Google Classroom and innumerable online distractions. Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to spend most days in an actual classroom with two-thirds of your face wrapped […]
Standardized testing returns to public school classrooms in New Mexico | Education
Springtime in New Mexico’s public schools for years heralded a practice dreaded by most and hated by many: the dayslong process of standardized proficiency testing. The math and reading assessments, required for students in grades 3 to 11, in some years drew outrage among parents and walkouts by students. Educators […]
How Las Cruces Public Schools offers online education statewide
If necessity is the mother of invention, the pandemic of our generation has created several innovative avenues in the way of education. None has had more of an impact than the evolution of virtual school, and a new consortium that includes Las Cruces Public Schools is creating a hub for […]
Public school superintendents disagree on what Department of Education reports as “inherently divisive concepts” taught in schools
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – School superintendents from across the commonwealth are calling out the state’s Department of Education (VDOE). VDOE reported in February Virginia schools are teaching what it claims to be “inherently divisive concepts,” defined in Governor Glenn Youngkin’s first Executive Order. A letter sent by the Virginia Association […]
Southern Living 2022 Idea House Will Open Doors to Public in Coastal North Carolina This July
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