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About 150 Boston area school kids were told to find their own way to school, as the state of Massachusetts diverts funding for buses to be used for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s migrants.

A Texas public school district has decided to prohibit the use of pronouns that do not match students’ biological sex.

Police say a first-grade teacher in Maryland has been arrested in connection to an overdose death involving fentanyl in Washington, DC.

Experts have been sounding the alarm in the wake of college prices approaching $100,000 per year when counting fees.

An Ohio school district compelled a Christian teacher’s speech by telling her to use the “preferred pronouns” of transitioning students, a federal court ruled.

The University of Kentucky is the latest school to close its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices, joining public colleges in Texas, Florida, and Alabama in eliminating programs that encourage discrimination based on race and sex.

Northwestern University announced that all students and faculty would receive “mandatory trainings on antisemitism” as well as “other forms of hate.”

The disgraced Wisconsin teacher arrested in May for allegedly “making out” with a fifth-grader could get a life sentence if convicted. 

Four Michigan men, including a high school teacher, have been arrested after they were caught in a sting operation allegedly sending explicit images to or soliciting people they thought were underage girls online.

Almost one-third of Chicago’s well-paid public-school teachers keep their kids out of the Chicago Public School System, a study finds.

As ChatGPT and other generative AI tools gain popularity, their impact on education has become increasingly evident, with students turning to these technologies for assistance with their assignments. One category of conversation related to cheating, “homework help,” has emerged as one of the most common type of queries from consumers.

Harris tried to walk back her support for prosecuting truancy when she last ran for president in 2019; Democrats have conveniently forgotten her record.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) celebrated the news of Columbia University President Minouche Shafik stepping down from her role months after intense anti-Israel demonstrations on campus.

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigned Wednesday after she failed to prevent radical anti-Israel and antisemitic “encampments” on campus that led eventually to the violent occupation of a university building.

U.S. Judge Mark C. Scarsi slammed the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on Tuesday in a preliminary injunction ordering it to make sure Jewish students can access campus activities — or else cancel all activities.

The 45th president pointed out that U.S. education scores are tumbling compared to other developed countries, even though the United States spends “more per pupil than any other country in the world.” 

The Boston Globe has published an exceedingly sympathetic profile Sunday of a pro-Palestinian “summer camp” in western Massachusetts, where participants share ideas about communism and talk about building a better society.

Rep. Erin Houchin (R-Ind.) spoke to Breitbart News Saturday about the Department of Education’s late rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form, and how it was “another example” of the “Biden-Harris administration blunders.”

A former Illinois public school food service director has been sentenced to nine years in prison for pulling off a $1.5 million chicken wing heist, prosecutors said.

A pair of Alabama high school football coaches have stepped down from their jobs after videos of team staffers behaving inappropriately with players began circulating online.

A slight majority of Americans believe students should be required to say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning at school.

A 52-year-old Connecticut middle school teacher has been charged for allegedly sexually grooming a 14-year-old student more than 15 years ago.

A Washington Post columnist on Tuesday appeared to agree with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) move to put tampons in boys’ restrooms, suggesting boys who give the menstrual products to girls would be more popular.

The Florida teen who savagely beat a teacher over a Nintendo Switch in February 2023 has been sentenced to five years in prison.

The AI obsession in Silicon Valley has reached new heights, with parents sending children as young as five to summer camps focused on artificial intelligence and robotics.

A 44-year-old elementary school teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio, is facing federal child pornography charges after allegedly being caught in a hotel room with a naked child.

Diplomat Aryeh Lightstone says that it is safer to be a Jew in some Arab countries than on many college campuses in the United States.

Anti-Israel protesters who started encampments and protests on college and university campuses in the spring say that protests will resume for the fall semester.

Some leftist members of the “Squad” in Congress are facing a class-action lawsuit regarding the anti-Israel encampment and protests that erupted at Columbia University a few months ago. 

Students in Grand Prairie, Texas, are being forced to lock up their cellphones during the school day amid an outcry from educators.

A school district in Florida suspended a staffer whose son, who identifies as a girl, reportedly played on a girls’ volleyball team, violating a state law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

A student loan forgiveness update will be rolled out in the next week by the Biden administration, coming less than 100 days before the presidential election.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) stated that she would handle the coronavirus pandemic differently if she knew then what she knows now, but “We did not know it was respiratory in nature. We

The classmates of Barron Trump, the youngest child of former President Donald Trump, say he was “funny and sociable” while also “mysterious.”

U.S. Judge Mark C. Scarsi ordered the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Monday to come up with a plan to protect Jewish students from antisemitic encampments on campus, and to protect them from discrimination as well.

The University of Alabama is the latest school to close its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices, joining public colleges in Texas and Florida in doing away with the programs that encourage discrimination based on race and sex.