New federal civil rights data show persistent and widespread disparities among disadvantaged students from prekindergarten through high school on key indicators—calling into question whether the national push for educational equity […]
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Parents of public school students have sued the state to increase funding for education and target more assistance to disadvantaged students who are living in poverty or learning English. The lawsuit
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A black boy in baggy pants is disciplined, while a white girl in a short skirt, also against the dress code, is left alone. A girl gets suspended for fighting,
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The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund today commended the New York City Department of Education, which runs the nation’s largest school district, for issuing guidelines on how to meet
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a Pennsylvania school district’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that upheld the right of students to wear “I ♥ Boobies”
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A Facebook post by the daughter of a Florida educator cost the father $80,000 out of a larger settlement of an employment discrimination suit against a private school. “Mama and
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I wish politicians and pundits who make a habit of railing against teachers and public schools had spent some time at the conference put on by the Network for Public Education (NPE)
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Are we on the verge of the “Education Spring”? Impassioned school superintendent and author John Kuhn, who works in the Perrin-Whitt district in Texas, raised this question on March 1, the
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On a campus already beset by claims of bullying and sexual harassment, a Hercules High School transgender student told police he was assaulted by three boys Monday while exercising his
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