EDUCATION

Head Start programs serving more than 10,000 disadvantaged children would immediately lose federal funding if the government shutdown isn't averted.

The Biden administration is releasing a playbook on best practices for training workers as the low 3.8% unemployment rate and years of underinvestment have left manufacturers, construction firms and other employers with unfilled jobs.

Algeria is among many countries in Africa to take steps to transition parts of its education system away from French and toward English.

Students at the Art Institute in San Antonio were confused when the website encouraged them to “complete their education elsewhere.”

Federal student loan borrowers will have to resume payments in October, including thousands of San Antonians who applied for student loan debt forgiveness before the Supreme Court rejected President Joe Biden’s initial loan program that would have wiped the slate clean for many borrowers.

The Biden administration is asking America’s colleges to step up their efforts to make campuses more racially diverse.

Hundreds of students and faculty members were left scrambling on Friday after the Art Institutes, a system of for-profit colleges, announced it would close its eight remaining campuses across the nation by the end of this month.

A new federal rule threatens to cut federal money to college programs that consistently leave graduates with low pay or unaffordable debt.

Shai Reshef, president and founder of the online, tuition-free University of the People, and Arizona State University professor and researcher Michelene Chi, who has developed a framework to improve how students learn, are the 2023 winners of The Yidan Prize, the biggest award in education.

Michigan State has fired Mel Tucker, saying the suspended football coach failed to present adequate reasons why he should not be fired for cause after having what he described as consensual phone sex with an activist and rape survivor.

More students in schools serving low-income communities will be eligible to receive breakfast and lunch at no cost under a rule change announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The U.S. military, employers and economic development specialists have been raising alarms about the implications of American students' low math scores for the country's competitiveness and national security.

Mel Tucker’s attorney says Michigan State does not have cause to fire its suspended football coach after Tucker acknowledged having phone sex with an activist and rape survivor because he did not “engage in unprofessional or unethical behavior” or violate his contract.

After weeks of learning about directing, producing and acting, some San Antonio area students are bringing their films to the community.

Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people.

The family of a Black high school student in Texas has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general over being suspended by his school district for his hairstyle.

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A group of educators are hoping to diversify the teacher pipeline and inspire San Antonio students along the way.

The San Antonio Independent School District is kicking off its next round of neighborhood meetings after staff proposed closing 19 campuses.

President Joe Biden’s education chief says he’s open to using “whatever levers” are available — including federal money — to discourage colleges from giving preference to the children of alumni and donors.

Tejano music singer Shelly Lares is joining the UTSA School of Music as its 2023-2024 artist-in-residence.

The debate over whether a Black high school student in Texas should be serving in-school suspension for wearing twisted dreadlocks to class has intensified as the student’s family and his school district both took legal action.

The district plans to begin hiring international teachers as soon as possible. Harlandale’s job positions page lists immediate openings for Dual Language Elementary and Secondary Spanish teaching positions.

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An Alabama high school band director says he was just “doing my job” when police officers arrested him and shocked him with a stun gun after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game.

An author's clash with a Georgia school district over a brief mention of homosexuality in a presentation highlights the reach of conservatives' push for what what they call parents' rights.

West Point was accused in a federal lawsuit of improperly using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the legal challenge that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions.

Police body camera video shows an Alabama high school band director being shocked with a stun gun and arrested by officers in front of screaming students, in a chaotic scuffle that broke out after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game.

Suspended Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker says he's “disappointed — but not surprised” that the school intends to fire him for misconduct involving activist and rape survivor Brenda Tracy.

The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday recognized IDEA Carver Academy, a public charter school in San Antonio, as a 2023 National Blue Ribbon School.

A Black high school student in Texas has been punished with an in-school suspension over his hairstyle for over two weeks, his mother said.

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Thousands of South Korean school teachers are calling for tighter legal protections from bullying by parents, a rising problem in a country known for its brutally competitive school environments.

West Virginia University has given final approval to wide-ranging cuts in academic programs and faculty positions.

Mary Gomez, better know as “Ms. Mary”, recently celebrated 20 years as a Comal Independent School District after school care aide.

Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected to newly mandatory school sessions in some parts of the country.

A Memphis, Tennessee, couple who took in former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher when he was in high school denied in court documents filed Thursday that they used a legal agreement between them to get rich at his expense and lied about intending to adopt him.

Two shootings three decades apart at the University of North Carolina show how much has changed.

Women earn almost half the PhD’s awarded in this country, but they account for only about 12 percent of patented inventions, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Patent Office.

The National 4-H Council is growing in a new direction – online – by launching its e-learning platform Clover with a collaboration with Netflix and its new movie “Spy Kids: Armageddon.”.

The San Antonio Independent School District is looking to close campuses as it struggles with low enrollment and insufficient money to support all the currently operating schools.

A majority-Black Mississippi school district has received a judge’s approval to shed federal supervision in a desegregation lawsuit that dates back to 1965.

Jubilee Academies Highland Park campus students and staff will start at a new school this month.

Students and teachers are sweltering in public schools across Puerto Rico and demanding that the government install air conditioners as the U.S. Caribbean territory bakes under record heat this year.

Friday night football action will start a bit later for San Antonio’s two largest school districts.

The first day of school is providing challenges for major U.S. cities that are struggling with the influx of tens of thousands of migrants.

Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year’s winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of poetry's most lucrative prizes.

More than 9,000 books were discovered in a room. Here's how they will find new life on another continent.

A co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a “parental rights” group that has sought to take over school boards in multiple states, has been appointed to the Florida Commission on Ethics.

Under its “Our Texas, Our Future” campaign, the films bring attention to the work various organizations are doing in Texas to protect wildlife habitats, save endangered animal species and showcase the beauty of Texas.

Faculty at West Virginia University have approved a symbolic motion expressing no confidence in President E.

A California judge has halted a school district policy that requires parents be notified if their children change their gender identification or pronouns at school.

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An unprecedented infusion of aid money the U.S. government provided to schools during the pandemic has begun to dwindle.

The San Antonio Municipal Court has partnered with Pre-K 4 SA and Communities in Schools to launch the Attendance Matters campaign, addressing the importance of consistent school attendance and tackling the challenges associated with chronic absenteeism.

The students that are part of the Agricultural Sciences Program at Burbank High School are focusing on the science and research of animals.

Helping teachers of young kids gain confidence in math could be one key to unlocking America’s post-pandemic math recovery.

More libraries are cutting ties with the American Library Association as the professional group stands up for books some say children shouldn't have access to because of their content.

West Virginia University is recommending slashing its language department and dozens of other programs amid a $45 million budget shortfall.

British lawmakers have headed back to Parliament after their summer break but thousands of U.K. children won’t be returning to their classrooms this week.

Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are criticizing the school’s response to a campus shooting that killed a faculty member.

Police in Louisiana say a shooting during halftime of a high school football game has killed a 16-year-old student and wounded a woman in the arm.

Young students who were hit hardest by the pandemic are entering the upper grades of elementary school.

Children across Russia have returned to school, where the Kremlin’s narratives about the war in Ukraine and its confrontation with the West are taking an even more prominent spot than before.

An atmosphere of joy mixed with sorrow sets the tone for the start of the new school year in Ukraine.

An assistant high school football coach in Washington state who lost his job during a controversy over his public post-game prayers was back on the field after the U.S. Supreme Court held his practice was protected by the Constitution.

A vision of putting an armed guard at every school in Texas is crashing into the reality of not enough police or funding.

Several Texas school districts are suing the Texas Education Agency for changing the accountability rating system.

A 911 recording indicates police in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, quickly received the name and description of the accused shooter just after a professor was fatally shot this week.

More than 50 years after a Vietnam War-era bombing on the University of Wisconsin campus that killed a researcher, the FBI has released age-processed photographs of a suspect who has evaded law enforcement for more than half a century and been referred to as “Wisconsin’s state ghost.”.

Yale University President Peter Salovey says he will step down next year and plans to return to the school's faculty.

U.S. colleges are searching for solutions as they see alarming numbers of students arrive with gaps in their math skills.

The white supremacist shooter who killed three Black residents over the weekend at a dollar store in Jacksonville, Florida, stopped beforehand at the state’s first historically Black college.

A school shooting that frightened students and left one faculty member dead at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has galvanized gun safety advocates.

The Biden administration is canceling $72 million in student loans for 2,300 borrowers who say they were cheated by Ashford University, a former for-profit college that was purchased by the University of Arizona in 2020.

New laws surrounding school safety, crime, gender, voting and guns in Texas will go into effect on Sept. 1.

The government of President Daniel Ortega described the Jesuit-run University of Central America in Nicaragua as a “center of terrorism” and seized its property, buildings and bank accounts on August 16.

Occupational therapists are important because some people need assistance learning or re-learning how to do day-to-day activities.

Authorities say a University of North Carolina graduate student walked into a classroom building, shot his faculty adviser and then left.

Across the country, schools are scrambling to catch up students in math as post-pandemic test scores reveal the depth of missing skills.

Authorities say a faculty member was shot and killed in a University of North Carolina building.

California's attorney general has sued a Southern California school district over its new policy that requires schools to notify parents if their children change their gender identification or pronouns.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden shook hands with middle schoolers on their way to lunch and dropped by an eighth grade math class Monday to welcome students back for the new school year.

When classes resume for kids in eight states, they won’t have to worry about where their next meals will be coming from because they’ll be free.

Yale University is settling a federal lawsuit that said the Ivy League school discriminated against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring them to withdraw.

Across the country, books and lessons that represent different families and identities are increasingly the target of conservative pushback — even when they're for the youngest of learners.

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it will digitize 20,000 archival pages related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' education policies have faced wide criticism from civil rights leaders and educators, among others, but they also have paid off politically.

NISD Police Chief Charlie Carnes said the district has made several security changes this school year to address the growing enrollment and potential threats.

A review of hundreds of emails provides insight into the damage control that top New Mexico State University administrators undertook after news broke this year about allegations of hazing on the men's basketball team.

Monday is the first day of class for the University of Texas at San Antonio and to get students pumped up the school held its “midnight light” pep rally event.

Georgia Republican lawmakers passed a law to make it easier to challenge school library books as inappropriate, but few people are using it.

The Move-in Market will give UTSA students the opportunity to get free items for their dorm room or apartment.

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North Carolina was ground zero in the nationwide fight over transgender rights with the passage of its 2016 “bathroom bill.”.

Tennessee’s GOP-dominant Legislature will soon return to the state Capitol months after a deadly school shooting.

San Antonio ISD is considering closing or consolidating some of its schools come next school year. While the district hasn’t finalized anything, it has conducted a “rightsizing” study and is presenting it in a series of meetings for community members.

Approximately 1,000 former Northwestern University athletes have sent a letter condemning hazing while defending the school’s culture.

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