Education

For churches seeing demand for more Christian schools, vouchers ease start-up stress

By Holly Meyer, Associated Press

In Florida, Ohio and other states, there is now greater availability of taxpayer money to pay for K-12 private school tuition. Many say the primary reason is to give parents more schooling options that align with their Christian values.

St. Louis NAACP files civil rights complaint over low literacy rates among Black students

By Gabrielle Hays

The complaint follows years of troubling data showing stark disparities between Black and white students’ reading scores. But advocates argue, it's also an issue nationwide. Based on a 2022 data from the NAEP, 17 percent of Black students scored at…

WATCH: This 'Friendship Bench' is pulling on the healing power of grandmothers

By Brief But Spectacular

"The Friendship Bench" recruits grandmothers as mental health counselors to bridge the mental health treatment gap in Zimbabwe.

Kenya school dormitory fire kills 17 students, seriously burns 13 others

By Evelyne Musambi, Associated Press

Police said Friday they feared the death toll may rise.

Teen and father charged in Georgia school shooting will stay in custody

By Jeff Amy, Jeff Martin, Associated Press

The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Georgia high school that killed four people and his father will both stay in custody following back-to-back court hearings Friday morning where their lawyers declined to seek bail.

4 killed and 9 others wounded in shooting at Georgia high school

By Jeff Amy, Associated Press

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said two school resource officers encountered the shooter within minutes after a report of shots fired went out. The suspect, a student at the school, immediately surrendered and was taken into custody.

Families paying for school lunches grapple with recurring online transaction fees

By John Yang, Andrew Corkery, Gerard Edic

Schools are increasingly turning to online payment systems for school lunches. Those systems are run by payment processing companies, which typically charge transaction fees. According to federal analysis, families qualifying for reduced-price meals may be paying as much as 60…

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School choice, history of segregation collide as Florida county consolidates rural schools

By Kate Payne, Associated Press

As some districts are being forced to close schools, administrators are facing another long-avoided reckoning: how to integrate students in buildings that remain racially and economically segregated.

'Hitting kids should never be allowed': Illinois bans corporal punishment in all schools

By John O'Connor, Associated Press

Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical punishment in private schools while reiterating a prohibition on the practice in public schools, first implemented 30 years ago.

Jury decides parents of Texas student accused in 2018 deadly school shooting not responsible

By Associated Press

The victims’ lawsuit sought to hold Dimitrios Pagourtzis and his parents, Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Marie Kosmetatos, financially liable for the shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018.