school administration

By ANNIE MA - Associated Press The University of California, Berkeley's law school on Thursday joined the law programs at Harvard and Yale in pulling out of U.S. News & World Report's rankings over…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ - Associated Press/Report for America The movement for “parents' rights” saw many of its candidates come up short in this year's midterm elections. But if history is any guide, the…

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri school board decided Tuesday to shut down a grade school that sits near a contaminated creek after a study funded by law firms involved…

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — Radioactive waste in a creek that meanders through part of suburban St. Louis has long been suspected of causing rare cancers and other health…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH - Associated Press VENICE, Fla. (AP) — It was less than three weeks before the Sarasota County, Florida, school board election when the former White House national security adviser…

By JANELLE RETKA of The Seattle Times In her second-grade classroom outside Seattle, Fatima Nuñez Ardon often tells her students stories about everyday people realizing their dreams. One day, for…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and MARGARET STAFFORD - Associated Press A school district in southwestern Missouri decided to bring back spanking as a form of discipline for students — if their parents agree…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and MARGARET STAFFORD - Associated Press A school district in southwest Missouri has decided to bring back spanking as a form of discipline for students, but only if their…

By ANNIE MA - Associated Press Gabrielle Perry, a 29-year-old epidemiologist in New Orleans, expects $20,000 of her $135,000 student loan debt to be wiped out under the plan announced this week by…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s schools chief unveiled a plan on Wednesday that would prevent some public school principals from facing pay cuts in 2023 due to an alteration in how performance-based compensation is…