“The separation of church and state appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution," a top Oklahoma education official said in defense of the state's Ten Commandments decree.
As families continue to defect from government-managed K-12, teachers unions are tightening their squeeze on the Democratic Party.
The fifth-grader was punished as part of a law that requires students who make threats of "mass violence" be expelled for at least a year.
Democrats campaigning both on their pandemic record and minding your own damn business: Pick one.
In a letter sent to parents, school officials say the clothing is more "associated with depression and mental health issues and/or criminality than with happy and healthy kids ready to learn."
The First Amendment case about a first-grader’s free speech rights is headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
The paper studying Massachusetts charter schools also found that students in urban charters saw a large test-score jump.
Turned off by fumbling public schools and curriculum wars, families teach their own kids.
According to a new report, the average eighth-grader needs over nine months of extra school time to catch up with pre-COVID achievement levels.
The move "will significantly reduce the amount of time students can be on phones without parental supervision," according to Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
"This is an obvious attempt to use our public schools to convert kids to Christianity. We live in a democracy, not a theocracy," one ACLU attorney tells Reason.
The case hinged upon the idea of what a publicly funded school can teach. But parents do have a role to play in that conversation.
Of the 21 Texas House Republicans who joined Democrats to kill school choice during the special sessions, only seven survived their primaries.
The fines, which can reach over $750, are disproportionately likely to be handed out to black students, a complaint with the Education Department alleges.
Pastor Joshua Robertson stepped up when his community asked for support. His efforts have more people realizing that there is an alternative to the failing school system.
"of prescription medication, search her bag without permission, and find a firearm inside? And what happens when school board officials find out and want to question the perpetrator? Has the Fourth Amendment been transgressed?"
Government school advocates say competition "takes money away" from government schools. That is a lie.
"I'm shaking and crying because I'm like, 'Oh my god, I'm gonna get shot,'" one student told a Vermont newspaper. "It felt so real."
Students have a constitutional right to refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance, no matter what school officials think.
Artificial intelligence writes a pretty good analysis of George Orwell's 1984.
"It really feels as though maybe we've lost touch with what's developmentally appropriate," says one Montgomery County mom.
Despite headlines pointing to the contrary, high-poverty schools get more funding than low-poverty schools in almost all states.
D.C.'s new degree requirements could lead to job losses, increased operating costs, and higher tuition.
Christian McGhee is suing, arguing a North Carolina assistant principal infringed on his free speech rights.
Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?
This new school-to-parent pipeline allows parents to micromanage yet another aspect of their kids' lives.
The author of The Anxious Generation argues that parents, schools, and society must keep kids off of social media.
Colleges have turned away from standardized testing in admissions. Are the tests really that bad?
State government officials deploy scare tactics against families of special needs students seeking alternatives.
When schools get rid of advanced offerings, they hurt smart, underprivileged students.
Since COVID-era school closures, chronic absenteeism has increased from 15 to 26 percent, with poor districts struggling the most.
DARE to Say No details the history of an anti-drug campaign that left an indelible mark on America.
The audience's tolerance for the truth about bullying has diminished in our oversensitive age.
A new survey highlights how fear-based parenting drives phone-based childhoods.
All too often, admission is only open to students whose families can afford a home inside the districts’ boundaries or pay transfer student tuition.
The pandemic showed that America's founders were right to create a system of checks and balances that made it hard for leaders to easily have their way.
Schools districts that stayed almost entirely remote significantly hindered progress, according to new data.
James Crumbley, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, may be an unsympathetic defendant. But this prosecution still made little sense.
After blaming the state's bathroom law, The New York Times says "it has never been clear" whether gender identity figured in the fight that preceded Nex Benedict's death.
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