Public schools

Public schools

High School Senior Won't Be Banned from Graduation for Yearbook Chemistry Joke After All

Ed Krayewski | 5.21.2014 12:16 PM

Police

Iowa Student Suspended for BB Gun Found in Car Parked Off Campus

Ed Krayewski | 5.15.2014 6:02 PM

Police in Schools

School Hands 13-Year-Old Over to Cops for a Doodle of a Man Hanging, Lawsuit Alleges

Ed Krayewski | 5.15.2014 12:49 PM

Policy

Same As It Ever Was: High School Seniors' Reading and Math Performance Stagnates

School spending increases, the ranks of administrators swell, but scores remain flat.

Lisa Snell | 5.9.2014 3:00 PM

Policy

Pop-Tart Guns Now Legal in Florida Schools

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.9.2014 1:40 PM

Policy

Have Doubts About Common Core? Maybe You're a Right-Wing Extremist!

J.D. Tuccille | 5.9.2014 1:28 PM

Police

Cops Search Kid's Home After Tip About Pellet Gun Brought to Middle School

Ed Krayewski | 5.7.2014 3:49 PM

Culture

Let's Have Middle-Schoolers Debate Whether the Holocaust Happened!

Scott Shackford | 5.6.2014 11:20 AM

Culture

Today in the Science of Obviousness: Bullying Causes Kids to Arm Themselves

Scott Shackford | 5.5.2014 11:32 AM

Policy

California Tax Dollars, Hard at Not Working in Inglewood Schools

Ethan Roberts | 4.28.2014 5:22 PM

Public schools

Kindergarten Show Canceled So Kids Can Be 'College and Career Ready.' Thanks Obama!

Ed Krayewski | 4.27.2014 12:08 PM

Policy

Summer School Is For Suckers

Take online classes instead

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.26.2014 2:00 PM

Public schools

Police Officer Tells Parents They Could Be 'Trespassing' on School Property If They Oppose Standardized Testing

Ed Krayewski | 4.22.2014 4:53 PM

Zero Tolerance

Minnesota Girl Could Be Expelled After Pocket Knife Found During Drug Dog 'Lockdown'

Ed Krayewski | 4.22.2014 12:31 PM

Policy

Chocolate Milk Ban Backfires for School Lunch Programs

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.21.2014 2:40 PM

Public schools

Up to 20 Injured in Apparent Mass Stabbing at Pittsburgh Area High School. Time for Knife Control?

Suspect in custody

Ed Krayewski | 4.9.2014 12:36 PM

Drug Testing

New Jersey Parents: Drug Test Teachers; Also Have More Searches, Cameras

Ed Krayewski | 3.28.2014 2:07 PM

Social Media

Minnesota School District Where Sixth Grader Had To Surrender Facebook Password to Administrators Settles for $70,000

Ed Krayewski | 3.27.2014 3:49 PM

Policy

Let Schools Teach (More) Stupid Stuff (Like Creationism)

Nick Gillespie | 3.25.2014 11:35 AM

Policy

Hey Politico, Apparently Public Schools Don't Teach Low-Income Minority Kids Science at All

The sad fact is that the public schools have spent more than $600 billion a year with little to show in terms of science education for public school students.

Lisa Snell | 3.25.2014 8:30 AM

Culture

Young Brony Gets to Keep His School Bag

Friendship could stand to be a little more magic in North Carolina.

Scott Shackford | 3.21.2014 1:05 PM

Policy

What's the Best Way To Learn? Whatever Works For Your Kid.

J.D. Tuccille | 3.20.2014 4:05 PM

Facebook

Student Suspended For 23 Days, Questioned by Police for Joking About Bomb Threat on Facebook

Joked about a false alarm bomb threat that happened that day

Ed Krayewski | 3.14.2014 5:09 PM

Politics

Teacher Membership in Unions Drops Below 50 Percent

Will they be joining other unions in membership decline?

Scott Shackford | 3.11.2014 5:35 PM

Policy

Homework Can Turn Your Kid Into a Stressed-Out Wreck, Researchers Say

J.D. Tuccille | 3.11.2014 4:34 PM

Policy

California's Solution to Truancy 'Crisis': More Bureaucracy!

How much money will the state spend to try to capture the money it loses from students skipping school?

Scott Shackford | 3.10.2014 5:55 PM

Public schools

Mississippi High School Suspended Student Indefinitely Over Alleged Gang Sign in Science Project Photo

Returned to school 21 days later after several local news reports, 21 other suspensions of students

Ed Krayewski | 3.10.2014 2:26 PM

Zero Tolerance

Ohio 10-Year-Old Reportedly Suspended For Pointing His Finger Like a Gun

Zero tolerance strikes again

Ed Krayewski | 3.4.2014 6:03 PM

Policy

De Blasio Finds New Way to Screw Over New York City Minorities

Charter schools under fire

Scott Shackford | 3.3.2014 11:05 AM

Policy

A Shocking Number of States Still Allow Public School Teachers to Spank Students

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 2.27.2014 6:25 PM

Policy

American Flag Ruled a Disruptive School Influence

At least on Cinco de Mayo

Scott Shackford | 2.27.2014 4:17 PM

Nanny State

Feds Don't Want Kids to Even See How Awesome Junk Food Is

Don't even show them pictures of soda!

Scott Shackford | 2.25.2014 6:02 PM

Policy

Challenge to California's School Transgender Law Fails to Make Ballot

Too many signatures thrown out to force a vote

Scott Shackford | 2.25.2014 10:45 AM

Policy

Common Core Supporter Engages Imaginary Criticisms; Next Step: Real Opponents

J.D. Tuccille | 2.21.2014 5:07 PM

Policy

NYC Teachers Union Wants Back Pay

Billions for raises they didn't get

Reason Staff | 2.18.2014 4:45 PM

Policy

Snow Days Are Okay, Says Harvard Study

Alyssa Hertig | 2.14.2014 5:50 AM

Bill de Blasio

Bill de Blasio Keeps NYC Schools Open, Teachers Union, Parents Upset, But No One's Forcing Anyone to School Are They?

He's a mayor, not a king

Ed Krayewski | 2.13.2014 12:39 PM

Public schools

New York State Assembly Considers Bill Requiring Psychological Examinations of all Public School Students

How about psych exams for legislators first?

Reason Staff | 2.12.2014 1:30 PM

Public schools

Mass. Middle/High School to Review Ban on Yoga Pants

Relaxing for now

Reason Staff | 2.11.2014 2:10 PM

Public schools

High School Student Athlete Suspended After Stepping in to Stop a Gay Student From Being Assaulted

Florida

Ed Krayewski | 2.10.2014 4:43 PM

Policy

1,200 NYC Teachers Unwanted by Principals May Be Heading Back to Classrooms

Half of them have disciplinary histories or unsatisfactory records

Reason Staff | 2.6.2014 4:00 PM

New York City

NYC Public Schools to Close for Eids al-Fitr, al-Adha, Lunar New Year, De Blasio Not Sure About Diwali Yet

Bloomberg opposed more days off from school

Reason Staff | 2.5.2014 4:05 PM

Policy

Obama Pushing High-Speed Internet in Schools

Because coffee shops

Reason Staff | 2.4.2014 3:15 PM

Nanny State

School Cafeteria Manager, District Supervisor in Utah Suspended Over Throwing Out School Lunches Punitively

For unpaid lunch bills

Reason Staff | 1.31.2014 4:50 PM

Policy

Maine Court: Transgender Student Can Choose Bathroom

Had been forced to use staff bathroom rather than girls' room

Reason Staff | 1.30.2014 4:00 PM

Policy

Utah School Throws Away Kids' Lunches over Unpaid Bills

Considering the average quality, they may have been better off

Reason Staff | 1.30.2014 2:45 PM