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The Alaska Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution aimed at not allowing transgender athletes to participate in sports that don't match their birth sex.

After his son was injured in a violent attack at Switzerland Point Middle School, Mark Alvelo spoke out to the St. Johns County School Board during its meeting Monday, calling for action.

The southwest Louisiana schools chief is set to retire in July. Kent Reed announced his retirement Monday after 37 years of service, with the last four as superintendent.

A Virginia school board is scheduled to vote this week on the departure of its superintendent after a 6-year-old student shot and wounded his teacher.

A city in Virginia where a 6-year-old student shot his teacher will be installing metal detectors. There was no struggle before the gun was fired at the first-grade teacher.

A Loudoun County, Virginia was found not guilty Wednesday after he was arrested in June 2021 at a raucous school board meeting involving parents protesting the district's policies.

After a five-year legal battle, a sharply divided federal appeals court Friday upheld a St. Johns County School Board policy that prevented a transgender male student from using boys’ bathrooms at a high school.

Over 800 residents in Loudoun County, Virginia signed a petition banning 'hate speech' at school board meetings after a speaker quoted a Bible verse.

The St. Johns County School Board moved forward with plans to build two new schools in the northwest part of the county to help alleviate overcrowding.

Duval County Public Schools calls it a “review” for age appropriateness, but a free speech and human rights group is calling it a “book ban.”

The board concluded its meeting by moving to authorize negotiations for Superintendent Brennan Asplen's resignation with severance on Tuesday.

St. Johns County voted in favor of incumbent Beverly Slough for School Board District 1.

The vocal and highly emotional standing-room-only crowd of students, parents and teachers who packed the Monday’s Lake Central School Board meeting criticized a new policy that would ban 'political' posters and items like gay pride flags from classrooms.

All voters in Columbia County are being asked to vote for or against a School Board proposal to levy a ½-cent local-option sales tax to fund the acquisition, construction, renovation and improvement of public and charter school facilities, including safety and security and technology.

Residents of Flagler County are being asked on the November ballot to vote for or against renewing a half-cent sales tax for 10 years to fund technology, school safety and education facilities.

A federal judge is considering whether to throw out Jacksonville’s newly-drawn city council and school board district map ahead of next year’s elections in March.

Parent advocacy groups gathered outside a Loudoun County School Board meeting in Virginia on Tuesday to protest against critical race theory in schools.

Beverly Slough has not attempted to hide her political leanings in a role that has historically been considered - and administratively remains - nonpartisan. The current representative of District 1, Slough was first elected in 2002 and is now running to retain her seat against a challenger, Racheal Hand.

Though the St. Johns County School Board scrubbed the district’s dress code of gendered language last year, the enforcement of the code still almost exclusively affects girls, according to records obtained by News4JAX.

The Uvalde CISD School Board approved a three-week delay to the school year this summer.

Eight controversial books will stay on St. Johns County school shelves despite another heated debate about them on Thursday.

While Tuesday night represented a big win for supporters of Duval County’s property tax referendum to fund pay raises for teachers, it could be longer than expected before that revenue lands in teachers’ paychecks.

A former assistant coach who was employed by the St. Johns County School Board is facing two counts of sexual battery after two women -- who were then students -- came forward with allegations, according to an arrest report from the county Sheriff’s Office.

Two candidates are seeking the votes for Alachua County School Board, District 5.

Two candidates are seeking the votes for Putnam County School Board, District 5.

Two candidates are seeking the votes for Flagler County School Board, District 4. This is a nonpartisan office that will be elected by all voters during the August primary.

The only contested race for the Columbia County School Board this cycle is a three-way race in District 5. Hunter Peeler and Elizabeth Porter got the most votes in the August primary but neither got more than 50% of the vote, so they will face off in a runoff on the November ballot.

Jack Baker Jr. won 64% of the vote in the August primary and was elected to Baker County School Board’s District 2.

Two candidates are seeking the votes for Clay County School Board, District 5. This is a nonpartisan office appearing on the August ballot and will be selected by all voters in the district, regardless of party.

Three candidates are seeking the votes for Clay County School Board, District 1. This is a nonpartisan office is elected by all voters in the district, regardless of party. This race appears on the August primary ballot. If no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the top two will advance to a runoff in November.

Two candidates are seeking the votes for Clay County School Board, District 4. This is a nonpartisan office appearing on the August ballot will be selected by all voters in the district, regardless of party.

Two candidates are seeking the votes for the District 4 seat on the St. Johns County School Board. This is a non-partisan race that will appear on the August ballot open to all voters in the district.

95 employee resignations from the Waukesha School District have been reported as of early July, according to the Alliance for Education in Waukesha.

Next month, Clay County voters will head to the polls to vote for its school board.

The St. Johns County School Board on Tuesday accepted a $59.4 million bid to build a new K-8 school in the northern part of the county.

A cafeteria worker in St. Johns County is being called a hero after she saved the life of a student who was choking on a grape.

The Nassau County School Board on Thursday voted to move forward with plans to try to increase the county’s property taxes to help raise pay for teachers.

The St. Johns County School Board on Tuesday unanimously approved seven new attendance zones that will go into effect in the 2022-23 school year.

Seven controversial books will remain on St. Johns County library shelves.

While protesting against sex education resources in Ohio schools, board member Darbi Boddy accidentally shared a link containing pornographic material.

The five-member St. Johns County School Board approved advertising seven of the nine proposed changes to the school attendance zones of the county’s rapidly developing northside.

The school district in Flagler County is looking at making big changes to its student dress code.

The St. Johns County School Board on Tuesday morning got its first look at potential attendance zone changes for the northwest part of the county.

St. Johns County School Board member Bill Mignon told News4JAX on Thursday he plans to step down from his position at the end of his term later this year.

The woman who helped launch a federal Title IX investigation into the St. Johns County School District is now running to serve on its board.

The St. Johns County School Board on Tuesday moved forward with plans for a much-needed K-8 school in the northwest part of the county.

Growing up in rural eastern Tennessee, James Cockrum hadn't given much thought to the possibility that one day he might find himself speaking about his Jewish heritage in front of a packed school board meeting. “This is very disturbing.”

Two St. Johns County school board members were in Tallahassee last week and took the opportunity to lobby local lawmakers for additional funding to help deal with the explosive growth in the county.

School board salaries would be eliminated under Florida House bill now poised for debate

Multiple booksellers are donating copies of the Holocaust graphic novel to students in Tennessee and beyond. Online sales are skyrocketing, too.

The 10-member McMinn County School Board voted unanimously earlier this month to remove the book over foul language and an image of a nude woman.

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman.

The St. Johns County School Board had a long discussion Tuesday morning about how to deal with the booming growth, and for now, dealing with it means more portable classrooms and possible zoning changes in the northwest part of the county.

The father of a 5-year-old girl made an impassioned plea to the St. Johns County School Board during its Tuesday night meeting.

The St. Johns County School Board approved a 5-year plan Tuesday morning.

The Clay County School Board on Thursday night voted unanimously in favor of naming its new elementary school Spring Park Elementary.

The Orange County School Board in Florida removed a speaker from Tuesday's board meeting for using vulgar language after the person read a passage from a sexually explicit book that is available in high schools' libraries.

A newly disclosed email sent by the superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools alerting school board members of an alleged sexual assault on school grounds contradicts what he later said publicly about there being no record of such an incident.

A Virginia-based parent organization advocating for the ouster of five Loudoun County School Board members scored a small victory in its bid to remove one member after a judge ruled that the group's recall petition could advance to trial.

The Clay County School Board is standing strong with its decision to not make masks mandatory in schools.

As Florida became a coronavirus hot spot this summer, the school district in Sarasota County enacted an emergency mask mandate that took effect on Monday.

Starting next Monday, students and staff at public schools in Nassau County will be required to wear masks.

The number of St. Johns County students quarantined due to possible exposure to the coronavirus grew by nearly 300% during the first week of classes.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced the appointment of the former chair of the Alachua Republican Party to fill a vacant seat on the Alachua County School Board.

Following calls for masks in schools at a previous school district meeting, the Nassau County School Board on Tuesday held a special meeting to discuss the hot button topic and get feedback from the community.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools leaders will need to do a lot of mental and political gymnastics to justify anything other than a mask mandate after spending almost two and a half hours listening to medical advice Monday.

At the close of the first day of school, the St. Johns County School District reported a total of 155 cases of COVID-19 in its schools.

The Florida Department of Education has scheduled an emergency meeting of the State Board of Education for Tuesday to consider funding cuts tor two school districts that have rebuffed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order allowing parents to ignore mask mandates.

Broward school leaders have until Friday to tell Florida if they intend to comply with state rules on mask mandates to have an opt-out option for parents who don’t want their kids to wear one.

Several parents and even a student stood in front of the Clay County School Board on Thursday to explain why they are either for or against students wearing masks this school year.

Broward County Public Schools backtracked on its mask mandate Monday, saying the district would comply with the governor’s executive order that prevents schools from requiring facial coverings.

More than 100 physicians from the Tampa area wrote to the Hillsborough County School Board asking for mask mandates for children.

For the second time this summer, about 20 people used the public comment period during Wednesday’s Miami-Dade County School Board meeting to lambaste the district for teaching critical race theory and requiring students and teachers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when they return to class next month and to wear a mask while on campus.

The lawsuit wound up back at the Supreme Court at a time when some states are passing laws to limit protections for transgender people.

"Critical Race Theory is not being taught in our schools, period," the chair of Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia said in her closing remarks.View Entire Post ›

Over the objections of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Democrats in the Illinois Senate voted Tuesday night to transition Chicago’s mayoral appointed school board to a fully-elected, 21-member body by 2027. The Senate voted 36-15 to approve the long-discussed, politically volatile issue, which still requires approval in the House and the signature of Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who has voiced his support for an elected board.

The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement with the School Board of Palm Beach County, Florida (the District). The Civil Rights Division’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) is responsible for enforcing the anti-discrimination provision of the INA. The statute prohibits citizenship status and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, or recruitment or referral for a fee; unfair documentary practices; and retaliation and intimidation. The Civil Rights Division wants to hear about civil rights violations. Members of the public can report possible civil rights violations through the Civil Rights Division’s reporting portal.