Board of Education

The Florida Board of Education voted unanimously to penalize eight school districts, including Miami-Dade and Broward, which Commissioner of Education, Richard Corcoran, said are guilty of mandating masks instead of making them optional.

The Florida Department of Education imposing new penalties on school districts with mask mandates. This is the latest response from the state in the battle over face coverings in classrooms. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports

The Florida Board of Education is ordering Broward County to comply with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order banning mask mandates within 48 hours. In a letter sent to the Broward County School Board on Friday, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said both Broward County and Alachua County must comply within 48 hours before both counties could face sanctions. “It is important…

The Florida Department of Education is ordering Broward and Alachua Counties to comply within 48 hours or face sanctions.

NBC 6’s Ari Odzer is in Hollywood where the new school year looked a little different in Broward than previous years as the county instated a mask mandate.

Florida’s state Board of Education banned “critical race theory” from public school classrooms Thursday. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Friday a new framework for setting academic standards in Florida schools that would replace the controversial Common Core.

The changes were criticized by Miami’s teacher union, and still need to be approved by a board to get implemented

California officials again rejected parole Tuesday for the last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children for $5 million ransom more than four decades ago.

The Board of Education proposed a change to the state curriculum that would require schools to teach at least five hours of mental health instruction, though it was not made clear if the measure would be enacted for the upcoming school year.

California is the first state to ban discrimination against natural hair in workplaces and schools.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders wants to suspend taxpayer funding of new charter schools and ban those that are for-profit as part of his plan to overhaul public education that he released on Saturday. Saying charter schools are “exacerbating educational segregation,” Sanders proposes more transparency and accountability for them, as well as limits on the pay of their chief executives....

The parents of four 12-year-old girls who say they were illegally strip-searched in school are suing a New York district in federal court.

In an one-on-one interview, civil rights attroeny Ben Crump talks about the high-profile trials that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement, his continued fight for social justice and the South Florida mom he thinks should run for office.

A school district on Long Island said it was investigating after a photo of nooses was allegedly displayed in a middle school classroom.

Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers returned to work Wednesday after voting to ratify a contract deal between their union and school officials, ending a six-day strike for the nation’s second-largest district.

Florida Republican Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis is tapping a former House speaker to be education commissioner and a Democratic state representative to head the state’s Division of Emergency Management.

It took more than 15 years for Mississippi and other Southern states to catch up to the Supreme Court’s landmark desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and many public schools found ways around the new system, NBC News reported. The issue came to light again last week when the Jackson Free-Press reported that Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith a school...

In Kentucky, parents have pooled money to pay an armed officer to begin patrolling schools. A mayor outside Cleveland, Ohio, is urging a security levy to pay for guards. And a town in New Jersey has begun assigning off-duty police to stand vigil inside all its school buildings. In the jittery aftermath of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, novel efforts...

West Virginia’s teachers striking for the fourth day over low pay and rising health insurance costs say state legislators are failing to learn their civics lessons, which may have to be driven home at the ballot box in November. All 100 seats in the House and half of the 34 Senate seats will be on the fall ballot. Both chambers...