Donald Trump has promised sweeping actions in his second administration.

The Magic School Bus, a popular kids' book series, is being researched for its blend of fantasy and science education.

A court settlement that would require colleges to pay athletes billions for their play is not going to settle the debate over amateurism in NCAA sports.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from parents in suburban Washington who want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use books featuring LGBTQ characters.

IMSA arranged for 27 high school students who excel in STEM programs to come to the speedway to educate the teens on how many opportunities exist in motorsports for those interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” has been ordered jailed without bail.

A true team player. Passionate. Innovative. Those were some of the words used to describe Ayanna Stamps-Glover, a special education teacher who has been named the 2024-25 Lynchburg City Schools (LCS) Teacher of the Year.

The Los Angeles wildfires have forced thousands of students to relocate to other schools.

The U.S. Department of Education says plans for colleges to pay athletes directly for their name, image and likeness deals would run afoul of Title IX.

An acclaimed opera singer is suing officials at the University of Michigan.

Officials in Slovakia say an 18-year-old student fatally stabbed two people at a high school.

Several school districts across the Commonwealth will be receiving thousands of dollars to make sure students can start their day off with a full stomach.

Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza.

More than 260,000 former students of the now-defunct for-profit Ashford University are getting their student loans erased as the Biden administration presses ahead with debt forgiveness in its final days.

While Republican states were working to limit school history lessons and ban transgender athletes, President Joe Biden’s education chief said he was focused on what matters — putting more social workers in schools, expanding summer school and building a pipeline of new teachers.

A Florida state lawmaker has filed a bill that would ban some of the state’s public colleges and universities from admitting students who are in the country without legal permission.

Award winning actor Jon Hamm, best known for his roles on “Mad Men” and, more recently, on “Fargo” and “Landman,” has been named 2025 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Montgomery County Public Schools and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office are cracking down on drivers illegally passing school buses.

Despite failing to deliver his promise for broad student loan forgiveness, President Joe Biden has now overseen the cancellation of student loans for more than 5 million Americans — more than any other president in U.S. history.

The Virginia Department of Education wants to hear from you on its suggested guidance to help local schools create effective action plans for school-connected overdose and timely parental notification.

Alleghany Highlands Public Schools has made significant progress in their initiative to curb chronic absenteeism in their schools.

The wildfires tearing through Los Angeles have taken lives and thousands of homes.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many elected officials in Republican and Democratic states are preparing to either aid or oppose his policies.

Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state.

PowerSchool, an international provider of education administration software, suffered a cybersecurity incident in December that may have impacted Botetourt County Public Schools data, BCPS said on Thursday.

Ed Sheeran wants people to take music in schools seriously.

The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found that they overstepped the president’s authority.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed legislation that boosts the rights of parents to know when schools are changing their child’s health care or preparing to present lessons involving sexuality or gender.

New research indicates students are paying significantly less to attend public universities than they were a decade ago.

Schools around the country are reviewing what to do if immigration agents come knocking as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office after campaigning on a pledge to deport millions of people.

Pope Francis has warned that bullying in schools prepares students for war rather than peace.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has asked for the immediate resignation of regents at Western New Mexico State University after revelations of wasteful spending and failures in financial oversight.

One-third of Turkey's children live in poverty, with many forced to work to support their struggling families.

A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.

Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.

The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza.

The Madison, Wisconsin, police chief has been named as the chief of police in Seattle.

Artificial intelligence holds the promise of helping countless other students with a range of visual, speech, language and hearing impairments to execute tasks that come easily to others.

President Joe Biden’s administration has started to withdraw pending regulations that won’t be finalized by the time he leaves office.

Some U.S. colleges and universities are advising international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.

A judge has refused to allow a Michigan school shooter to withdraw his guilty plea to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder.

An official at the Wisconsin school where a student shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student says the 15-year-old was in her first semester there.

A new documentary about teacher Christa McAuliffe focuses more on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

New filings in a 2022 class-action lawsuit contend that children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities.

Police say the shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin this week brought two guns to the school.

Community members in Wisconsin are continuing to wrestle with grief and calling for change in the aftermath of a school shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others.

Boston is planning to renovate a crumbling stadium in one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods for its new professional women's soccer team.

Investigators in Wisconsin are trying to determine a motive in a school shooting that left a teacher and a student dead and two other children in critical condition.

Jill Biden says she has closed the book on teaching at Northern Virginia Community College.

Police in Madison, Wisconsin, believe multiple factors prompted a 15-year-old student to open fire at a private Christian school, but they declined to share those Tuesday.

A student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another student in the final week before Christmas break.

Florida State and Mike Norvell have agreed to a restructured contract that includes the football coach contributing $4.5 million of his 2025 salary to help launch a fundraising campaign amid the sport's changing financial landscape.

Some schools in our region will be either closed or delayed on Monday, Dec. 16 due to wintry conditions.

Some schools in our region will be either closed or delayed on Monday, Dec. 16 due to wintry conditions.

Reliance on school buses has been waning for years as districts struggle to find drivers and more students attend schools far outside their neighborhoods.

Schools are adopting diverse disciplinary strategies for student cell phone use, focusing on compliance and personal development.

Beginning January 6, 2025, secondary school students in Bedford County will be required to adhere to a new cell phone policy in accordance with Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Executive Order 33.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Boston parents who claimed a temporary admissions policy for the city’s elite high schools discriminated against white students and those of Asian descent.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students.

Lynchburg City Schools has announced its updated cell phone policy, slated to go into effect when students return from winter break on Jan. 6.

Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court election already had high stakes, with majority control on the line.

School delays on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris and breakout pop star Chappell Roan were among the most talked-about people this year.

It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history.

A judge’s overturning of Wisconsin’s 13-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for teachers and most state government employees has rekindled a battle over labor rights in a state where the first public sector unions were formed 65 years ago.

School delays on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024.

Years after COVID-19 disrupted American schools, nearly every state is still struggling with attendance.

Brown University has transferred ownership of a portion of its land in Bristol, Rhode Island to a preservation trust established by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe.

Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions have scored a major legal victory with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law.

Close to 500 schools and nearly 100 school divisions across the Commonwealth have been awarded $12 million in school security equipment grants, according to the Virginia Department of Education.

School delays on Monday, Dec. 2.

Former U.K. Conservative Party leader William Hague has been elected chancellor of Oxford University, one of the most prestigious positions in British academia.

Regardless of whether President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants, educators around the U.S. are bracing for upheaval.

Some schools in our region will be either closed or delayed on Friday, Nov. 22 due to a wintry weather mix that has hit our area.

Texas’ education board has voted to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools.

Penn State has won a closely watched trademark fight over an online retailer’s use of its vintage logos and images.

The federal FAFSA form used to apply for college financial aid opened to high school seniors across the nation on Thursday, a year after a disastrous rollout by the Biden administration delayed the application for months.

The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature has completed its override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of legislation that addresses both private school scholarship grants and immigration.

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists.”.

The Texas State Board of Education has given initial approval to a Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for public schools to adopt for lessons from kindergarten through fifth grade.

A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year.

Texas A&M University is set to mark the anniversary of the campus bonfire tragedy that killed 12 people and injured dozens more 25 years ago.

Oklahoma's education superintendent has sent an email to public school superintendents requiring them to show students his video announcement of a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism.

A French student detained for weeks in Tunisia has returned to Paris after weeks of top-level diplomatic discussions.

President-elect Donald Trump has a vision for education that revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination.”.

Roanoke City schools are celebrating an exciting future. Their new administration building, the Booker T. Washington Community Empowerment and Education Center, will officially open in July.

The Republican-led Ohio Senate has approved a bill banning transgender students from using bathrooms that fit their gender identities.

Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign.

Food and beverage manufacturer Kraft Heinz says it's no longer serving the Lunchables meals it created for U.S. schools.

Over the past few years, leaders at Radford University have focused on creating an accessible path through higher education like their tuition promise.

A newly unsealed federal complaint says a man accused of having a machine gun at Tuskegee University admitted to firing his weapon during a weekend shooting, but denied shooting at anyone.

Louisiana Attorney General Elizabeth Murrill says the state will ask a federal appeals court to quickly stay a lower court's order declaring unconstitutional a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1.

Pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course next year at Yale University.

A Tuskegee University student says he hid under a car when he heard the gunshots that ripped across his Alabama campus.

Former first lady Michelle Obama's brother and his wife have settled a lawsuit they filed in 2022 alleging a private school in Milwaukee refused to reenroll their children after the couple raised concerns about racism.

A southeast Louisiana school board voted to shut down a predominantly Black elementary school next to a petrochemical facility embroiled in multiple lawsuits over its high levels of toxic emissions.

President-elect Donald Trump has not said what he would do on student loan forgiveness, leaving millions of borrowers facing uncertainty over what will happen with their payments once President Joe Biden leaves office.

Money from name, image and likeness deals has changed what it means to be an NCAA athlete for some college players.

It’s no surprise that students are pushing back on cellphone bans in classrooms.

Jodi Picoult's “Nineteen Minutes” has topped a list compiled by PEN America of the books most often pulled from school shelves.