Mar 24 Watch 11:18 Brooks and Capehart on Trump's legal woes and parents' influence in schools By Amna Nawaz, Kyle Midura, Ali Schmitz New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the latest developments in former President Trump’s legal woes, the debate over parental say in school curricula… Continue watching
Mar 22 New Arkansas law restricts school bathroom use by transgender people By Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a new law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom of their choice. Continue reading
Mar 05 Schools struggle with lead-contaminated water while awaiting federal relief By Katheryn Houghton, Kaiser Health News Hundreds of schools in Montana are grappling with how to remove lead from their water after state officials mandated schools test for it. So far, 74 percent of schools that submitted samples found at least one faucet or drinking fountain… Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch 8:16 Schools stockpile medication to combat rise in fentanyl overdoses By Stephanie Sy, Karina Cuevas, Lena I. Jackson Overdose deaths caused by fentanyl are on the rise across the country. It’s especially grim for young people, with more than 75 percent of adolescent overdose deaths in 2021 involving the powerful synthetic opioid. In response, many schools have stocked… Continue watching
Nov 21 'When districts can't find teachers, students suffer.' Here's why teacher shortages are disproportionately hurting low-income schools By Hannah Grabenstein High-poverty school districts are struggling to fill more open positions than higher-income districts, but those areas have had staffing shortages for at least a decade. Continue reading
Oct 28 COVID-19 pandemic massively set back learning, especially for high-poverty areas By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Sharon Lurye, Associated Press The COVID-19 pandemic set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas most impacted, according to a district-by-district analysis of test scores. Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch 5:59 School systems struggle to fill teaching jobs as students return to class By Amna Nawaz As students return to class, schools across the country continue to grapple with teacher and staff vacancies. The scope of the shortages, and what’s behind them, varies widely across America's nearly 14,000 school districts. Carlton Jenkins, the superintendent of Madison… Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch 5:16 Florida moves to restrict what schools can teach about systemic racism A new law in Florida has instituted restrictions on how schools and businesses can teach race-related concepts. The law, called the Stop Woke Act, limits instruction on critical race theory. It's the latest part of Republican Gov. Ron Desantis’ extensive… Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch 9:56 Students worldwide suffer education setbacks from pandemic school closures By Mary Triny Mena, Rebecca Bundhun, Manoj Gaikwad, Isabel Nakirya, Andreina Fermin One of the major consequences of the coronavirus is that children around the world have been unable to attend schools to learn and are too poor to have computers and thus can't learn remotely. This is especially a problem in… Continue watching
Apr 04 WATCH: Vice President Harris delivers remarks on plan to upgrade public school facilities By News Desk Vice President Kamala Harris delivered remarks Monday on a White House plan to upgrade public school facilities to make them more energy efficient. Continue reading