#School Districts

HOUSTON – Houston Independent School District. The Houston Independent School District has canceled all operations for Monday due to a boil water notice impacting most parts of the city. According to HISD officials, all Houston ISD schools, offices, and facilities will be closed on Nov. 28. due to major...

A month after a merger plan was rejected by voters, two Sullivan County school districts are likely to wait several months before testing the waters again. With a combined enrollment of about 600 students and falling, Livingston Manor and Roscoe school districts have been considering a merger. However, voters rejected the proposal in a straw vote in October.

Local school districts are evaluating the results of the most recent “report card” from the State Department of Public Instruction. In a news release, the DPI summarized what is assessed on the report cards and the grading scales on the reports. The most recent report cards were released on Nov. 15 and cover the 2021-22 school year, the first full year after the pandemic.

Massachusetts got a double dose of bad news this fall, with national and state barometers confirming that more than two years of interrupted learning have taken a toll on the academic progress of students. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise; common sense, along with myriad reports on the impact...

A California appeals court ruled on Tuesday that only the state, and not individual school districts, can issue vaccine mandates for students. The ruling comes following a legal challenge to the San Diego Unified School District’s attempt to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for students ages 16 and older. It marks the first ruling by a state appeals court and will be binding on lower courts statewide unless overturned by the California Supreme Court or contradicted by another appeals court.

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – Metal detectors will be used regularly at Lexington Two stadiums and arenas starting Monday, November 28, according to Lexington School District Two. Lexington Two officials say the new measures is apart of the school districts commitment to the safety of students, families, employees, and...

When Charles Mungarro switched high schools last year in Riverside County, California, he felt the familiar intimidation of starting over in a new place. The 18-year-old has been in foster care for the past 10 years and has attended four schools in three different cities. Making friends hasn’t been easy for Mungarro, who says the changes have led him to have social anxiety and lack trust when meeting people.

LACEY, THURSTON COUNTY — In April of his senior year at Timberline High School, after years of conflict at home, Mikel Jake “MJ” Dizon became homeless. He was a few months from graduation, but considered dropping out of school to focus on his job as a Starbucks barista to make money for rent. This decision could redirect the course of Dizon’s life.

CAPITAL REGION — Every week Jessica Pino-Goodspeed fields dozens of calls and emails from parents and school districts about how families are struggling to pay for school meals. “We’re seeing story after story in districts of families who are accumulating a bunch of school-meal debt this year,” said Pino-Goodspeed,...

A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history. For almost two years, Phoenix Union High School District has offered on-call therapists for all staff. Here's what they have to say about their jobs. Three rural Arizona school districts are doing better...

A California appeals court ruled against the San Diego Unified School District’s controversial COVID-19 student vaccine mandate this week following pushback.

California has more than 1,000 individual school districts. Some of these districts wanted to impose COVID restrictions on their students and staff that others would not. However, a judge just ruled that individual California school districts cannot decide to impose restrictions on their students and staff. The decisions have to be made across the board or not at all.

The Pittsburgh school district in Pennsylvania voted to a defy a bill against critical race theory backed by Republicans during a board of education meeting.

ADRIAN — Whether they accept it or not, Lenawee County school districts have the option of beginning the school year before Labor Day for the next three school years. A waiver request for the purpose of allowing Lenawee County’s public school districts the ability to start classes before Labor Day for the 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years was granted last week to the Lenawee Intermediate School District by the Michigan Department of Education.

Alabama’s report cards came out last Friday, and of the 139 school districts and six charter schools that received grades, 24 earned an ‘A.’. Seventeen of those were repeat performers from the 2018-19 school year, but five earned their first ‘A’ ever this year. The 24...

Changes in administration roles at the Dillingham Middle/High School and Dillingham Elementary School are intended to smooth out bumps experienced in the beginning of the school year. It’s unclear what those bumps are, but they appear to be mismatches of administrators to job titles. The principal of the middle/high...

As community advocates with wide-ranging experience — such as serving on the Clark County School Board and the Clark County Commission, working in diverse communities and even starting a tutoring program for underperforming students — we have a unique point of view on our school system. That’s why we are supporting the Community Schools Initiative.

The investigation is continuing into the alleged used of racial slurs by Stanwood High School students during a Nov. 4 football game between Stanwood and Lakes. According to a Nov. 23 news release from the Stanwood-Camano School District, students, staff, parents, players, and spectators in the Stanwood-Camano and Clover Park school districts have been interviewed.

Northwest Arkansas public school enrollment rose 1.8% this fall compared to the same period last year, with the region’s charter schools and small school districts accounting for the increase. Benton and Washington County public schools enrolled 91,037 students as of Oct. 1, up from 89,450 at the same point...