Education

The daughter of an Oklahoma mayor — who is also the wife of the town’s police chief — has been found guilty of child sex crimes after having an inappropriate relationship with one of her students.

Departing President Joe Biden’s administration is nothing if not busy as desks are cleaned out and preparations for final departure made. On Friday it announced federal student loans for another 55,000 workers will be canceled through an existing program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

A Texas elementary school teacher was arrested after he allegedly dropped a baggie of methamphetamine in the hallway outside of a classroom, officials said.

The Senate passed an annual defense bill Wednesday that includes a provision prohibiting military children in the Pentagon’s K-12 schools from receiving sex-mutilating drugs or procedures.

During a Monday night press conference, Madison Chief of Police Shon Barnes was asked about transgender rumors regarding the alleged shooter, and he suggested how “she or he or they may have wanted to identify” had nothing to do with the events that took place.

A white cross survived a wildfire in California that burned thousands of acres around Malibu.

Several major universities have warned their international students who went to their home countries for winter break to return to the U.S. before President-elect Donald Trump regains office in January.

A female Texas public school teacher has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student, with investigators saying she groped and traded explicit images with the minor.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee will accept “womyn” as a correct spelling of “women” in competition, and has included it in their practice word list, Fox News reported on Friday.

A high school dean in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is accused of running a drug trafficking organization, the FBI announced.

A Georgia middle school teacher has resigned after landing an 11-year-old student in the emergency room — after the boy told him to stop talking about his mother in a sexual nature.

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania reportedly described UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged killer as an “icon,” per the New York Post.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass an annual defense bill, which included a provision to exclude transgender treatments to children in the Pentagon’s network of K-12 schools.

Job vacancies are disappearing faster in the United Kingdom than in other similar countries over the past year, recruitment platform Indeed revealed on Tuesday, with the second half of the year seeing the greatest decline in employment openings as business confidence slumps.

The San Francisco Hillel house, a Jewish center serving students at San Francisco State University, was vandalized on Sunday with graffiti that was both antisemitic and Islamist.

UCLA says it will offer a comparative literature course featuring a textbook, class assignments, and teaching assistant resources developed by AI.

A Florida teacher is facing shocking accusations after police discovered him naked and surrounded by disturbing items in an elementary school classroom during Thanksgiving break, authorities said.

A California elementary school teacher has been arrested on child pornography allegations after the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children received a tip pointing to him, a local ABC News affiliate reported.

Science did not justify the prolonged closure of schools during the coronavirus pandemic, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic revealed.

The number of colleges that close each year is expected to increase significantly as schools deal with a deceleration of incoming students.

Brown University recently finalized the transfer of 255 acres of its land to a Native American tribe.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) argued for cutting off taxpayer funds to medical schools that are promoting DEI policies and said that “the cutting block needs to come. And if

Data shows that the Biden-Harris administration has been targeting faith-based colleges, a study found.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed a bill into law preventing biological boys from using the girl’s restroom in public schools.

The late conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh delivered his final annual rendition of the true story of Thanksgiving in November 2020.

An Indiana public school choir and theater teacher has been arrested after allegedly sending videos of himself masturbating in his classroom to underage girls, telling them he was a “naughty teacher who fantasizes about his students all the time,” FOX59 News reported.

A New York public school is teaching a gender identity course to kindergarteners which uses terms such as cisgender, transgender, and nonbinary.

The University at Buffalo in New York held a “Decolonizing Thanksgiving” event last week, which questioned if it was “right to celebrate Thanksgiving” and the United States’ “history of settler colonialism.”

A disgraced North Carolina teacher and wrestling coach who was charged for allegedly sending and receiving child sexual abuse material in July has now been accused of “felony secret peeping,” according to local news reports.

Students at the University of Maryland will be given the chance to take a course called “Intro to Fat Studies” in the spring semester of 2025.

The University System of Georgia (USG), which governs 26 public colleges and universities as well as the public library system, has adopted several changes to combat Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology and to include U.S. founding documents in the curriculum.

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Bible should be “taught in schools” as a historical document and cultural document.

Bible-based lessons are now allowed in Texas elementary schools, and may be implemented in 2025. 

A leading “misinformation expert” has come under fire for citing seemingly nonexistent sources in an affadavit supporting Minnesota’s new law banning some AI-generated deepfakes. Opposing lawyers claim the Stanford professor used AI to write his legal document, which backfired when the system “hallucinated” by generating false references to imaginary academic papers.

A Mississippi teacher is “no longer employed” after serving dog treats that she apparently thought were beef jerky to students.

MIT announced on Wednesday that it will offer free tuition to undergraduate students from families earning less than $200,000 a year, starting in 2025.