Discussions at the first Oklahoma Prosperity Summit in OKC

A high school in Orange County closed Wednesday following an "unspecified threat," and now school officials are looking for information surrounding it. According to a release sent out to parents of students at Brea Olinda High School in Brea, the school stated that officials were first notified of the threat on Tuesday evening. The threat, [...]

DIXON, Mo. — A teacher for the Dixon School District was arrested by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 12 on 19 charges, including statutory rape and sexual contact with a juvenile, according to the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department (PCSD). Online court documents state that Carissa Smith is charged with the following: Online court records say [...]

An elementary school principal at Harvard Elementary School is "no longer willing to serve," according to a statement sent to parents by the Houston Independent School District.

A former Westchester teacher has been charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a student for two years, and is also facing a civil lawsuit.

Hundreds of posters depicting Jewish faculty members as "wanted" were plastered across the University of Rochester campus in upstate New York on Sunday night, an antisemitic act the school's president told CNN "would not be tolerated."

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile Azalea Trail Maid organization announced their 2025-2026 Court Sunday at the Queen's Coronation Ceremony at Saraland High School. According to a news release from the Mobile Azalea Trail Maids, Baker High School junior Ashton Sprinkle was named the Queen of the 2025-26 Azalea Trail Court. She will begin her [...]

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to abolish the Department of Education. Here's what the agency does and how eliminating it could play out.

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– Parents are outraged after a student at Lancaster Country Day School allegedly created deepfake pornographic images of more than 50 female students. According to the school and a letter sent to the district by a Philadelphia law firm, over 50 female students are victims in an incident where a fellow student [...]

A middle school student in Chula Vista was arrested before school on Tuesday after police received an anonymous tip of potential threats to commit a school shooting.

The cell phone ban at the country's second-largest school district will begin early next year, and now officials are detailing just how the massive change will take effect. The Los Angeles Unified School District voted to ban cell phone use during the school day in June. It's set to go into effect on Feb. 18, [...]

St. Louis County officials announced that their senior property tax freeze program will be put on pause for a few days following a higher number of applications than what the software can stand.

Several Jewish faculty members at the University of Rochester were targeted by antisemitic vandalism that depicted them in hundreds of "wanted" posters plastered around the school in upstate New York, officials said.

Opened in 1905, the Robberson building operated as a school for more than a century. It closed this year with students reassigned to Boyd Elementary.

In July, newly elected school board member, Greg Hohman, filed an unusual ethics complaint against Green Hill High School teacher Janie Johnson. According to the complaint, Johnson posted that she overheard Hohman yelling at a teacher during a parent-teacher conference.

St. John Vianney Catholic School in St. Pete Beach will permanently close at the end of the school year due to damage from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the school announced Wednesday.

Speakers complained that a school board member's neighborhood was dropped from the reassignment plan. The board member said she didn't ask for that to happen.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Louisiana law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles granted a preliminary injunction to a coalition of parents that sued the state, meaning Louisiana will not be allowed to require the Ten Commandments in classrooms while the...

A student athlete named Kaylee in Arkansas was set to end her high school running career with her personal best but stopped to help a runner from a rival school whose legs had given out. TODAY's Hoda Kotb has the Morning Boost.

Two teachers at St. Helens High School, Eric Stearns and Mark Collins, have been arrested and charged with sexually abusing nine students on the high school campus over the course of several years.

EVSC school board members on Monday unanimously approved a calendar for 2025-26 with a "soft start" alphabet flip, an extra day for staff development and a July start for teachers.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — City Council rejected a special-use permit for the proposed East Region high school in Cordova in a vote Tuesday, meaning it's back to the drawing board for the Memphis-Shelby County school district. Plans called for the school to be built on Fischer Steel Road near Germantown Parkway. But city council members Tuesday [...]

Teacher departures and shortages are a persistent problem in schools. Nationwide, approximately 16% of teachers leave each year — 8% move to other schools and the other 8% quit the profession entirely. Yet, these averages can mask a deeper staffing crisis at high-poverty schools, where turnover rates are even higher. Consider Newton High School, located [...]

The Ohio Senate on Wednesday approved a ban on transgender students using bathrooms that fit their gender identities and sent the measure to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. It requires the schools to designate separate bathrooms, locker rooms and overnight accommodations "for the exclusive use" of either males and females, based on one's gender assigned at or near birth, in both school buildings and facilities used for a school-sponsored event. State Sen. Jerry Cirino, a Kirtland Republican, said the bill "is about safety and security."

A teenager is facing serious charges after being allowed into Horn High School, where he allegedly forced a former girlfriend into a bathroom at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her, police said Wednesday.

BEULAVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — A major animal rights group is getting involved with a case in Duplin County. PETA is sending Duplin County Schools an empathy curriculum. This comes after a teenager was charged with animal cruelty after a video was posted online. PETA's "Teach Kind Team" sent the schools the "Empathy Now" materials. "We [...]

WORTHINGTON, Ohio (WCMH) — Just one month after the Westerville school board voted to end its religious release time policy, another district is having discussions on the constitutionality of the same policy. The Worthington City School Board held a regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday where the policy took center stage. Some say it's about parental [...]

In the quiet seaside town of Amchit, 45 minutes north of Beirut, public schools are finally in session again, alongside tens of thousands of internally displaced people who have made some of them a makeshift shelter. As the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalated in September, hundreds of schools in Lebanon were either destroyed or closed due to damage or security concerns, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Of around 1,250 public schools in Lebanon, 505 schools have also been turned into temporary shelters for some of the 840,000 people internally displaced by the conflict, according to the Lebanese education ministry.

A nonprofit in Conway is working to give old bikes a new home to those who need them.

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters did not reject the idea of a national mandate to require Bibles in schools on Tuesday night when asked if he would implement the policy if selected as the next education secretary. "Look, I believe that if you're teaching American history, the Bible absolutely has to be included. And...

MANITOWOC, Wis. (WFRV) – Authorities in Manitowoc say a bomb threat made towards a local elementary school on Monday was determined to not be credible. According to a release from the Manitowoc Police Department, another agency had made police aware of a vague bomb threat Monday night directed specifically toward the Madison Elementary School. Police [...]