Georgia public universities promise fall will be ‘normal’More of Georgia's public universities are opening for the fall term, trying to balance concern about COVID-19 infections against a mandate for on-campus classes citing fi...
Grammys to partner with Berklee, ASU for study on womenFILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, various Grammy Awards are displayed at the Grammy Museum Experience at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The Recording Academy i...
Who’s eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine? Questions lingerAfter state emergency management officials acknowledged that school personnel were eligible to get vaccinated at federal clinics in Jacksonville, among other major cities...
Douglas Anderson principal to receive diversity training over plan for segregated student meetingsJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The principal of Douglas Anderson School of the Arts has been temporarily reassigned to receive diversity training, according to an email sent to par...
New California law aims to put kids in class. Will it work?Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday to try to pressure districts to reopen classrooms by the end of March. I don’t know,” said Dan Lee, a father in San Francisco, a city ...
Bill would require Florida students to learn about pitfalls of communismTALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Dozens of survivors of communist regimes flocked to the State Capitol on Thursday in a show of support for a bill that would bring stories like theirs...
Florida superintendents ask state education commissioner to limit importance of standard testing due to pandemic
Algerian students restart weekly protests cut off by virusAlgerian students demonstrate, one with a poster reading "The right to defend our rights" in Algiers, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Protesters took to the streets of Algiers an...
Duval County Teacher of the Year surprised with tickets to Players tourney, moreJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The 2021 VyStar Duval County Teacher of the Year got another surprise on Tuesday when members of The Players organization stopped by his school. Jim ...
Duval school superintendent honored at surprise celebrationJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A surprise celebration was held Monday night at 121 Financial Field for Dr. Diana Greene, the Duval County school superintendent. The event was hoste...
School district encourages Duval County parents to return students to brick-and-mortar classesJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As the Florida Standards Assessments loom, Duval County Public Schools emailed families of 17,299 students who are enrolled in the district’s virtual...
Deal reached to get California children back in classrooms(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The majority of California's 6.1 million public school students could be back in the classroom by April under new...
Detroit PE teacher navigates pandemic with charity assistRonda Brodsky, a physical education and health teacher at David Ellis Academy, leads a P.E. Student physical activity has dipped during the pandemic, and schools have str...
Florida first lady launches effort to teach resiliencyORLANDO, Fla. – Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis on Friday announced the launch of a new initiative to teach public school students about resiliency and perseverance wit...
NYC schools chancellor exits, citing virus' personal tollNew York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza is shown this still image, from New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's media availability, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in New York. ...
Some Florida teachers will get vaccine priority. School bus drivers want to be includedCardona says the governor should allow school bus drivers and monitors to also be vaccinated at federal sites. Data on school bus drivers infected with COVID-19 is sparse...
Man who played Duke Chapel bells for 50 years diesIn this 2018 photo provided by Duke University, Sam Hammond, university carillonneur, plays the Duke Chapel carillon at the university in Durham, North Carolina. Hammond,...
Florida lawmakers look at ‘education savings accounts’Both would involve the use of education savings accounts, giving parents flexible spending power with 97.5 percent of the current state per-student funding level, or roug...
School bus collides with vehicle, crashes through fence in JacksonvilleJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Two people were taken to the hospital after a school bus carrying students collided with a vehicle and crashed into a fence Wednesday in Northwest Ja...
Report: DCPS teacher workforce is less diverse than its student bodyJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A report compiled by the Jacksonville Public Education Fund shows the teacher workforce in Duval County Public Schools does not reflect the same dive...
Student sues Jacksonville University for fees paid during coronavirus shut downJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville University student has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville University. Ashley Allen of California is suing because the school...
Q&A: UF Health virologist talks about variants and the future of the coronavirusUniversity of Florida Health virologist John Lednicky, Ph.D., a professor in the department of environmental and global health in the UF College of Public Health and Heal...
School voucher push taps frustration over distance learningRivera is hoping a voucher bill passes that will help pay for her to move her son out of a public Cobb County school and into a private school. They’re back in public sch...
