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02/28/2022

In Washington, the Office of Superintendent of Public Education has implemented a for K-12 public schools that prevents school faculty from informing family members when a student changes their and/or

Is this the best approach?

— Investigation —Washington State Tells Teachers To Hide Student Gender Transitions From ParentsOne teacher broke down as she described the policy.By Mairead Elordi•Feb 24, 2022 DailyWire.com•FacebookTwitterMailBeata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images A policy in Washington state requires te....

02/25/2022

Berkeley County School Board has suspended Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” from language arts curricula for the remainder of the year.

The novel is amongst others in a drastic increase of across the country.

What do we teach our students?

Controversy has surrounded the use of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” in Berkeley County classrooms for weeks, and at Monday night’s Berkeley County Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Dr. Patrick

02/09/2022

Teachers across multiple schools in the Oakland Unified School District are on a to the school board’s plan to close and merge several schools due to under-enrollment.

Activists argue that the merger will divert resources to charter schools and will displace hundreds of Black and Brown children from their neighborhood schools.

We go to Oakland, where a group of teachers are on a hunger strike to protest a plan to close and merge over a dozen schools due to under-enrollment. This co...

01/31/2022

The tension between and continues to escalate as staff at Wheatland Union High School in Yuba County, CA receive death threats for disciplining students who posted anti-Semitic content on social media.

What responsibilities do schools have in regulating off campus behavior?

A rise in anti-Semitism has left American Jews wondering what can be done in a country that rightly protects free speech, writes Hannah Holzer. | Opinion

01/27/2022

A student at Laguna Hills High School was caught on camera continuously taunting a Black student athlete with racial slurs during a basketball game.

The mother of the athlete is speaking up, arguing that the school promotes a

What action should the school take to prevent these incidents?

The mother of a Portola High School basketball player posted the video to Instagram, saying her family was "up in arms."

01/17/2022

The First Circut rejected an appeal by students at Hopkinton Public High School in Massachusetts who were suspended for posting bullying content on Snapchat.

The First Circuit determined that the school did not violate the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights, and that inflicting emotional harm on social media is a punishable offense.

While this ruling is within Massachusetts, it sets the score for schools navigating and

The First Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court rejecting the claims of Plaintiffs John Doe and Ben Bloggs that their high school discipline was unconstitutional, holding that the district court properly entered judgment in favor of Hopkinton Public Schools on all counts.

01/15/2022

The Supreme Court will listen to a in which a public high school football coach in Washington State was fired for praying on the football field.

The dispute is over the “outward manifestation of faith” for public school coaches and educators.

How do we compromise and in our schools?

A federal appeals court ruled that a school board in Washington State could require the coach to stop praying at the 50-yard line after high school football games.

01/07/2022

Los Angeles Unified School District is cutting $25 million from the budget previously used for maintaining police presence in schools.

The board is reallocating funds to invest $36.5 million into the - a targeted approach to reducing disciplinary action against Black students, with a focus on mental health and justice educators.

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is making necessary changes to better its students and voted to cut one-third of LAUSD officers' school funding and reallocate the resources to supporting Black students. The board's decision to cut the police budget by $25 million this year and invest...

12/22/2021

Portland Association of Teachers is pushing the Portland Public School District to once again amend the K-12 school year expectations to fit the pandemic climate.

Most notable of changes, if accepted, would switch high school students’ 8 hour school days to asynchronous virtual days, with 3 of those hours as teacher office hours. Additionally, elementary and middle school students would be allotted one 2 hour early release or late arrival per week.



To read the proposal:

12/08/2021

On Tuesday, December 7th, Los Angeles Unified School District fired over 400 school employees for not following the COVID

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12/03/2021

Long Beach Unified School District is developing new aquatic centers for several high schools, with plans to include locker rooms.

Rather than having a communal changing space, these new locker rooms will be designed with individual changing rooms & showers for students to use regardless of

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/12/02/lbusds-planned-all-gender-locker-rooms-causes-concern-for-some/

11/22/2021

Dr. Tolani Britton, assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education Studies, gathered 10 years of disciplinary data from New York City Public Schools grades 4-8 and found that students of color were less likely to be and/or when their teachers matched their racial identity or ethnic background.

need to see themselves in to cultivate a true sense of

Dr. Tolani Britton, coauthor of the study and assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of EducationStudies