Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

The Massachusetts Teachers Association is pushing back after the education commissioner issued a new state guideline saying teachers must go back into their classrooms even for remote learning. The new guidance has made an already heated debate even hotter. “It’s reckless. It’s more than unnecessary, it’s reckless,” said Merrie Najimy, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association. The Department of...

As the start of school comes closer and more people hope to return to fields, courts and rinks, Massachusetts has new rules around amateur sports set to take effect on Monday. These guidelines are categorized into three tiers of risk depending on the frequency of close contact involved: low, moderate and high risk. Low risk sports, which include tennis, swimming,…

School districts must submit summaries of their preliminary reopening plans to the state Friday as Massachusetts figures out how to get students back in the classroom amid the pandemic. Districts are required to fill out an online form with information about their reopening models and other plans by the end of the day. The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary…

The upcoming school year can be 10 days shorter, per an agreement reached between the state and its teachers unions, as schools plan for safe reopening amid the coronavirus crisis.

As parents and students begin to wrap up remote learning for the school year, new guidance is emerging on what school may look like when it reopens in the fall after the coronavirus shutdowns – and it will likely be a hybrid model of in-class and remote learning.

The NBC10 Boston Investigators have learned that Massachusetts schools are not required to tell parents if their child is ordered into a “time-out room.”

Massachusetts education officials are asking more organizations to come forward to sponsor sites for a program that provides meals to schoolchildren during the summer.

Public school officials in Massachusetts say they had to physically restrain students more than 9,000 times during the 2016-17 academic year.

A 21-year-old gunman opened fire in a New Mexico high school killing two students before turning the gun on himself last week.

The NBC Boston Investigators found more than 100 Massachusetts public school teachers have been disciplined or charged for sexual misconduct from January 2009 to September 2015.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts has filed a complaint against a charter school for disciplining and suspending black and biracial students because their hairstyles violate the school’s dress policy.

Massachusetts education officials say high school graduation rates are continuing to improve and that the gap between white and minority students is narrowing.