The quintessential childhood milestone of learning how to ride a bike is moving from driveways and sidewalks and into P.E. classes, The Associated Press reported. It’s part of All Kids Bike, a nonprofit program that has...
School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony Watlington speaks at Edward Gideon School in North Philadelphia on Sept. 28, 2026 about the expansion of the Handle With Care program.
Sixth grader Jocelyn Montiel had her phone stolen. She said her friend, Esteban Gonzalez, was to blame. Gathered around a table in educator Grover Edwards’ classroom, the two students discussed the situation with two of...
A flurry of immigration enforcement steps away from schools in California’s second-largest city has sparked outrage among educators and local officials.
On August 14, 2019, a long-anticipated lookback window opened in New York state, allowing adult survivors of childhood sexual assault a second chance at justice. Just after midnight, Kathryn Robb, who said she was...
This article was published in partnership with Mother Jones. Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse. Going to high school in Dutchess County, New York, in the 1960s, there was no late...
New York’s Child Victims Act is often referred to as a window — or a lookback window — because it took an aperture once shut to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and flung it open again. The law created an...
Early in my career as a high school English teacher, I was chaperoning a field trip to Six Flags when a 9th-grade student asked me to hold her phone while she rode the roller coaster. After she walked away, her phone...
L.J.’s third-grade teacher, accused in 44 Child Victims Act cases, was recently convicted and sentenced to decades in prison for child sexual abuse.