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Education

Elizabethtown school board unanimously approves teacher contract with 3.6% annual raise - 106 days late

Elizabethtown Area School District’s 270 teachers have a new 5-year contract granting a 3.6% average annual raise following a unanimous vote by the school board Tuesday evening.

Lancaster Online - Top Stories - 3 hours ago

Missouri dad ordered daughter to assault another child on a school bus, authorities say

Maurice Fox, 36, is accused of telling his child to repeatedly strike a 7-year-old. "I want her crying," he allegedly said at one point.

NBC News - Entertainment - 6 hours ago

Evanston/Skokie District 65 school board addresses federal indictment of ex-superintendent

The school board president stepped down from the leadership position in the face of concerns about lax oversight.

Chicago Sun-Times - Top Stories - 7 hours ago

Higher education CEO on AI's growing role in health-care degree market

Adtalem CEO Steve Beard is leading the health-care education company through an AI transformation, one he believes will further complement what it already does.

CNBC - Health - 13 hours ago

A virtual education company was a lifeline to a rural district. Now they're at war.

What began as an emergency option for New Mexico students during the pandemic has spiraled into dueling lawsuits and drawn government scrutiny.

NBC News - US News - 22 hours ago

Nice bum, Miss: Why we need to get tough with boys at school

A student threatened to come to the teacher’s house and rape her. He was not suspended.

Sydney Morning Herald - Opinion - 1 day ago

California Governor Signs Law That Widens Access to Removing Children From School

The new law will also ban daycare providers from collecting immigration information about the children or their parents.

Epoch Times - US News - 1 day ago

Newsom vetoes bill that would have granted priority college admission for descendants of slavery

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday vetoed legislation that would have allowed public and private colleges to provide preferential admissions to applicants directly descended from individuals who were enslaved in the United States before 1900.

Los Angeles Times - Politics - 1 day ago

CPS teacher to scared students: 'We will protect you'

Through these unprecedented times, we will keep showing up in our classrooms and communities, a teacher assures CPS students. Also, more on Trump's anti-immigration actions in Chicago and the damage caused by Italian American stereotypes in pop culture.

Chicago Sun-Times - Opinion - 1 day ago

TV Reviews -- A Rebel Education: Virgin Media school series is like Educating Yorkshire with a unique Cork flavouring

If you’ve ever watched Channel 4’s Educating Yorkshire, you’ll more or less know what to expect from A Rebel Education (Virgin Media One, Sunday, October 1...

Independent.ie - Entertainment - 1 day ago

Education Ministry launches 'Enhanced Licensing System for Private Schools and Kindergartens'

Doha, Qatar: As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance the efficiency of regulatory procedures and develop the private education system in the State o...

Peninsula Qatar - Health - 2 days ago

Why America needs to tax-incentivize tradesmen, not just college graduates

America needs tax incentives for skilled tradesmen like electricians and welders to address critical labor shortages.

Fox News - Technology - 3 days ago

Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent -- Peter Zimonjic

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his government will begin rolling out an automatic tax filing system for low-income Canadians and will make the school food program permanent, in advance of a federal budget promising to make generational investments in Canada.

CBC News - Health - 3 days ago

Here's how an Ugandan teacher beat sickle cell disease

Sickle cell disease is a genetic illness widespread in Uganda. Myths persist about the disease, but one teacher in Kampala explains how she is defying the odds and showing that it isn't a death sentence.

Deutsche Welle - Health - 4 days ago

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to know.

ProPublica - Top Stories - 4 days ago

Ex-superintendent of Evanston/Skokie School District 65 at center of federal corruption indictment

Four people, including a current Chicago Public Schools employee, are facing federal corruption charges in what authorities say was a kickback scheme involving school service contracts.

Chicago Sun-Times - Top Stories - 5 days ago

California becomes the first state to phase ultraprocessed food out of school meals

The law, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Wednesday, sets a 10-year deadline for the change to take place.

NBC News - Health - 5 days ago

Inside Ras Al Khaimah's inclusive education system -- m read

From student-led initiatives to big-picture reforms, emirate builds conducive ecosystem

Gulf News - Opinion - 6 days ago

Kentucky teacher accused of exposing herself to student during shower video chat to arrange sex

Krystal Sims allegedly exposed herself during a video chat with an underage student and planned to meet for sex, according to Barren County authorities.

Fox News - US News - 6 days ago

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

ProPublica - Top Stories - 6 days ago

Trump's carrot for college reform -- The president tries incentives over bullying as a way to change universities, even offering a dialogue about his proposed reforms, perhaps in an academic spirit of civility and reason.

The president tries incentives over bullying as a way to change universities, even offering a dialogue about his proposed reforms, perhaps in an academic spirit of civility and reason.

Christian Science Monitor - Opinion - 8 days ago

There have been calls to suspend a program that has brought free school meals to thousands of students in Indonesia.

In Indonesia, a government program aimed to fight child malnutrition through a Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) program. But thousands of children have suffer food poisoning after eating the free school lunches.

Deutsche Welle - Health - 8 days ago

For first-time job hunters, a college degree isn't opening doors it once did, data shows

Data shows young college grads are feeling the brunt of the labor market slowdown.

CNBC - Business - 11 days ago

MoPH intensifies oversight to ensure food safety in school canteens

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has intensified its oversight of school canteens to ensure high food safety standards and protect st...

Peninsula Qatar - Health - 12 days ago

The ingenious way students are getting around school cell phone bans: 'Can't silence us'

Students banding together against the ban — in the most millennial way possible.

New York Post - Weird - 13 days ago

Behind the data: How rising school exemptions are threatening public health

A generation ago, infectious childhood diseases were nearly wiped out in the U.S., thanks to immunization programs. In the most comprehensive data investigation of its kind, we show how that remarkable success is being eroded.

NBC News - Health - 29 days ago

Trump administration's war on public schools comes to Detroit with unpublicized education chief visit

Linda McMahon, an outspoken supporter of charter schools and civil rights rollbacks, is visiting Renaissance High School

Detroit Metro Times - Top Stories - 1 month ago

Lawsuit accuses Jewish school in Oakland County of using public funds to force educator to teach religion

The Hillel Day School allegedly fired a public school teacher after she raised questions about separation of church and state

Detroit Metro Times - US News - 1 month ago

Investing in Public Education Will Strengthen the U.S.

The U.S. is a global powerhouse. Public education is one of the main reasons why

Scientific American - Opinion - 1 month ago

COVID surges nationwide with highest rates in Southwest as students return to school

COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC's recommendation that they receive booster shots.

Los Angeles Times - Science - 1 month ago

Help ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Report on Education

Texas’ education landscape is changing. Help our reporters understand what’s happening across the state.

ProPublica - Top Stories - 2 months ago

Harvard physicist says massive interstellar object could be alien probe on 'reconnaissance mission'

Massive interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, larger than Manhattan, shows unusual glow pattern and planetary alignment that Harvard physicist calls potentially technological.

Fox News - Science - 2 months ago

Despite Trump's Win, School Vouchers Were Again Rejected by Majorities of Voters

In several Republican-led states, popular sentiment on the voucher issue has been overridden by the efforts of special interest groups and powerful governors who have enacted sweeping voucher programs that often benefit affluent families.

ProPublica - Politics - 3 months ago

Texas Lawmakers Push to Enforce Election Transparency Law After Newsrooms Found School Districts Failed to Comply

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found nearly three dozen school districts were missing required campaign finance reports online. Now lawmakers are pushing to impose steep penalties on local governments that fail to abide by the law.

ProPublica - Politics - 4 months ago

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

New York Magazine - Technology - 5 months ago

How Texas Conservatives Use At-Large School Board Elections to Influence What Students Learn

In six Texas districts that used at-large voting systems, ideologically driven conservatives successfully helped elect school board members who have moved aggressively to ban or remove educational materials that teach children about diversity.

ProPublica - Politics - 6 months ago

CBC Kids News - How acting in my school musical made me a braver person - January 10, 2024

Rasleen Buttar tells the story of how she auditioned for her school musical and got the lead, giving her confidence to try new things.

CBC News - Opinion - 9 months ago