Transgender Students Sue School Districts Over Equal Access
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A Wisconsin school district is being sued by a transgender student who says the district will not let him use the boy’s bathroom and that the district continues to use More...
USDA Dictates Final Rules on Smart Snacks in School Program
(Photo: Evan-Amos, Creative Commons) A USDA has announced to all US schools that unhealthy snacks for students must be eliminated in the 2016-2017 academic year, a move that completes the Smart Snacks in School More...
College Students Spend Less Than 3 Hours Per Day on School
(Photo: Andrew Pons, Creative Commons) A new study has exposed how college students use their time in an effort to inform taxpayers who subsidize federal student loans, finding that the average college student More...
Kentucky Dept of Ed to Review School Restraint Policies
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) Jefferson County Public Schools in Kentucky will be receiving an on-site review from the state education department, and the inspection will be centered on the management practices More...
Fingerprints, Biometics Introduced in Illinois School Cafeteria
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Students in a school located in the suburbs of Chicago will be able to order lunch items in the cafeteria with a fingerprint scan this fall under a new system that will make More...
Massachusetts Continues to Battle Over Charter School Cap
(Photo: Rosenberg Committee) The Massachusetts state legislature has introduced a new proposal in an effort to appease both sides of the charter school debate by increasing the charter cap currently in place while More...
Live Music Tutor Pilot Plays Well in Florida School District
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) The Osceola County School District in Florida has publicly announced the successful completion of the three-month pilot program using the Live Music Tutor education tool that More...
MI’s Snyder Looks to Supreme Court Guidance on Private School Funding
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has asked for the assistance of the state Supreme Court to decide whether the adopted state budget violates the constitution because of funding More...
US Dept of Transportation Explores Later School Start Times
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) A recent report from the US Department of Transportation suggests that starting high school at a later time of day could reduce the number of motor vehicle crashes experienced More...
Hillary Clinton Courts Teachers, Balances Charter School Talk
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) In an address to the National Education Association’s annual assembly in Washington earlier in the week, Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vowed to be an ally, telling More...