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With just weeks until school is set to begin in Maine, officials in Portland are still trying to finalize a plan to send students back safely. On Tuesday, a five-hour meeting of the city board of education to decide on a proposed hybrid plan to put students back in classrooms ended with a vote to pause the meeting and pick…

State police have arrested a Bolton Board of Education member after finding more than 20 teens at a party at her home, several of whom had marijuana and admitted to drinking alcohol, according to state police.

California officials again rejected parole Tuesday for the last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children for $5 million ransom more than four decades ago.

Wolcott Public Schools are on high alert after experiencing what they fear to be the second cyber-attack since June.

California is the first state to ban discrimination against natural hair in workplaces and schools.

Manchester High School is changing its mascot from the Indians to the Red Hawks.

Manchester High School is changing its mascot from the Indians to the Red Hawks.

The Indians have been the Manchester High School mascot since 1949, but a group of current students is spearheading a proposal to change that.

The Indians have been the Manchester High School mascot since 1949, but a group of current students is spearheading a proposal to change that.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders wants to suspend taxpayer funding of new charter schools and ban those that are for-profit as part of his plan to overhaul public education that he released on Saturday. Saying charter schools are “exacerbating educational segregation,” Sanders proposes more transparency and accountability for them, as well as limits on the pay of their chief executives....

The parents of four 12-year-old girls who say they were illegally strip-searched in school are suing a New York district in federal court.

A school district on Long Island said it was investigating after a photo of nooses was allegedly displayed in a middle school classroom.

Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers returned to work Wednesday after voting to ratify a contract deal between their union and school officials, ending a six-day strike for the nation’s second-largest district.

Hartford Public Schools and the teacher’s union are closing in on an agreement, but that didn’t stop teachers from coming out and giving the Board of Education an earful.

It took more than 15 years for Mississippi and other Southern states to catch up to the Supreme Court’s landmark desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and many public schools found ways around the new system, NBC News reported. The issue came to light again last week when the Jackson Free-Press reported that Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith a school...

The Amity Regional School District is responding to complaints of anti-Semitism and intolerant behavior after high school students and parents expressed outrage at school officials for not doing enough to address these issues during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting in Woodbridge.

The State Department of Education has notified the City of Ansonia that the city has failed to its minimum budget requirements (MBR) for public education funding for the 2017-2018 fiscal year and for the coming year, which could cost the city over $1 million in education grant funding if not made up.

In Kentucky, parents have pooled money to pay an armed officer to begin patrolling schools. A mayor outside Cleveland, Ohio, is urging a security levy to pay for guards. And a town in New Jersey has begun assigning off-duty police to stand vigil inside all its school buildings. In the jittery aftermath of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, novel efforts...

West Virginia’s teachers striking for the fourth day over low pay and rising health insurance costs say state legislators are failing to learn their civics lessons, which may have to be driven home at the ballot box in November. All 100 seats in the House and half of the 34 Senate seats will be on the fall ballot. Both chambers...

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting five years ago, districts have moved to bolster security, especially at elementary schools…