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Florida needs more teachers like Willie and Estella Pyfrom. Unfortunately, state education policies are making it difficult for public schools in Florida to attract and retain educators of the caliber of the Pyfroms, whose work in Palm…

Comment on this storyCommentYale University unveiled sweeping changes Wednesday that will allow students suffering from mental health problems to take time off without losing health insurance or facing a daunting application process for…

Yale Daily News Over a month ago, mental health…

Public education is central to our democracy, yet Texas has consistently failed to create a school finance system that provides all schools with adequate resources, especially in low-income rural and urban communities.As the upcoming…

Comment on this storyCommentMany teachers have complained to me about what they consider the harm done by new policies called standards-based grading. These are designed to reduce stress for struggling students. The reforms include…

Share this story North Carolina is among the many states that recognize the benefits of the…

During a stop in Marlinton about the controversial Amendment Two, a woman in the audience wanted to give Gov. Jim Justice a nudge about another amendment on ballots this fall, one that would give the Legislature greater sway on state…

NORFOLK, Va. — The public comment period on the Youngkin administration's proposed changes to the policies for transgender student ends next week. So far, the website has gotten more than 62,400 comments since it launched at the end of…

<!-- SHOW ARTICLE --> FAIRMONT– The Fairmont school board held its first meeting of the month Tuesday evening in the high school’s new vocational building. The meeting was immediately followed by a…

ASHEVILLE - In a meeting a month away from the election, Republicans and Democrats vying for Buncombe County's three state House seats disagreed on whether government officials should have shut down businesses during the pandemic,…