Michigan’s gubernatorial candidates are focused on training and getting back to the basics to improve literacy. But some experts say the state must also address issues related to poverty, such as housing insecurity.
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...
California youth football leagues will now be required to allow young players to wear soft-shelled helmet covers if their parents request the additional safety equipment. On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation...
Cassie Reed and her two young children had just moved from a domestic violence shelter into a third-floor apartment in Spokane, Washington, when she spotted a soon-to-open Head Start preschool on the building’s ground...
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.
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.
Amanda Geduld’s two-year investigation revealed how schools and alleged abusers are protected when students are not — something she had seen before.
The Ivy League institution also added or enhanced the use of blue light phone stations, card-swipe readers and panic buttons, it said.
Back-to-school season is in full swing. Normally, this time of year provides relief for parents whose kids have been out of school and away from school meals over the summer. This year — as our social safety net has...
Police in Sonoma County arrested a student after she brought a gun to Casa Grande High School in Petaluma on Wednesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The arrest occurred at the school. Casa Grande High School as...
Charlie Kirk’s heirs could sue Utah Valley University, arguing that it should have done more to protect the right-wing figure.
One of the drivers of America’s literacy crisis is a simple numbers problem. Across the country, elementary schools employ an estimated 67,000 speech language pathologists — experts on the front lines of diagnosing...
School District of Philadelphia Chief of Safety Craig Johnson shares updates with press at Abraham Lincoln High School on Aug. 20, 2026.
Boulder Valley School District will begin to address antisemitic harassment and discrimination in the schools by creating a new executive-level role to handle all Title VI complaints. The post Boulder school district...
The Netflix series is seen as a way to kindle debate about gender roles and to confront online bullying. The post Why this small Dutch town is teaching ‘Adolescence’ in school appeared first on District Administration.
California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is already yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according...
A former Woodland special education teacher pleaded no contest in a Yolo County courtroom Thursday to misdemeanor counts of child abuse and battery against a 5-year-old student at Rhoda Maxwell Elementary School,...
When a middle schooler sits down in math class, she might be thinking about the argument she had on the way to school, the stress at home she can’t escape or whether she’s going to eat today. She is probably not...
California lawmakers agreed to a deal that will allow many survivors of childhood sexual assault at public institutions to continue to sue the public bodies they say are responsible for their trauma. The compromise...
Later school start times can disrupt family schedules and cost districts money, but a new study says the benefits for sleep, mental health and academic achievement for California students makes the change worthwhile.
The districts were offered three years of online behavioral health counseling for their students, paid for by local nonprofit Safe Schools New Hampshire. The catch? Their students had to help roll the program out to...
Academy 360 earned a green rating for the second year in a row, making it safe from potential closure and allowing it to exit what's known as the state accountability clock.
Fresno Unified increased access to free swim lessons, but may need to raise awareness about water safety to address underutilized lessons and apprehension among families.
Too often, public debate rewards simple answers to complicated problems. The most visible ideas can easily be mistaken for the most effective ones, but appearance isn’t the same as progress. Youth mental health is...
Students found a loose gun in the stall of a Clovis high school restroom Friday during a varsity football game that belonged to a California Department of Justice officer, The Fresno Bee reported. The officer’s name has...
The family of Christopher Garcia, a high school football player who died during a game two years ago, has sued Los Angeles Unified. The suit alleges that the district did not provide safe facilities, proper equipment or...
At least 88 former wards in juvenile hall or foster care in San Diego County have claimed that they were sexually abused by county employees in two new lawsuits, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. This brings the...