Transit police in Boston are investigating a shooting on a subway platform near Harvard University that prompted the school to issue a shelter-in-place order for students and staff.

Classes will resume at Florida State University on Monday, four days after a deadly shooting on campus left two people dead and six others injured.

Some parents in a suburban Maryland county want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use books featuring LGBTQ characters.

As U.S. colleges are pulling back on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, students of color say they are starting to lose campus mentors, move-in events, scholarships and diversity offices where they always have felt welcome on predominately white campuses.

A federal judge has ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by immigration authorities in March to be brought to Vermont.

A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students who have been stripped of their visas in a Trump administration crackdown that has left more than a thousand fearful of deportation.

A few of the people who were at Florida State University for a deadly shooting were also traumatized by the Parkland massacre seven years ago.

Two people were killed and six others were injured when a gunman opened fire at Florida State University.

Miami-Dade Public Schools has chosen its Principal and Assistant Principal of the Year.

Police say the shooting at Florida State University that left two dead and wounded six others lasted less than five minutes.

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Alabama lawmakers approved a slew of bills that would expand the use of Christian texts in public schools and limit protections for LGBTQ+ students.

The Trump administration is asking Congress to eliminate the Head Start program, a move that would cut early education for some of the nation’s neediest children as part of drastic proposed cuts to federal health funding.

Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz on Thursday announced the immediate suspension of the county’s school bus camera citation program after officials discovered errors in the amounts listed on traffic tickets issued by the vendor, BusPatrol.

For years, President Donald Trump has complained that colleges and universities are “indoctrinating” their students with “radical left” ideas and has said they should lose their tax-exempt status.

Students and staff have returned to buildings on the Florida State University campus to retrieve their belongings a day after a gunman opened fire, killing two people and wounding at least six others.

The chief of police for the Dallas Independent School District says the student who shot four students when he opened fire at a Dallas high school this week was in and out of the building in less than two minutes and is believed to have been targeting a specific student.

Astronomers reported possible signs of life at K2-18 b, a planet light-years away in the constellation Leo that could have a global ocean.

President Donald Trump's administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to block the university from enrolling international students, who make up 27% of the campus.

A growing number of conservative leaders are pushing states to upend the long-standing U.S. constitutional right to free public education for children, regardless of immigration status.

Federal databases show Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal funding compared with this time last year.

The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures.

The student accused of injuring four in a shooting at a Dallas high school was let into the building through an unsecured door and then walked down a hallway toward a group of students, opening fire on them before appearing to take a point-blank shot at one.

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Department of Defense’s school system over banned race- and gender-related educational materials.

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The Broward School Board voted Tuesday to keep Howard Hepburn as superintendent through 2030.

Lawmakers moved a state bill forward Tuesday aiming to change the school grading system, so it is no longer easier for a school to get an “A” than it is for a student.

The two attorneys representing Harvard University in a pitched fight with the Trump administration are no strangers to the spotlight or to Washington investigations that reach into the White House.

In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research grants for Harvard University, which is pushing back on demands for changes to campus policy.

School district officials say a suspect in a shooting at a Dallas high school that wounded four students and drew a heavy police response to the campus has been taken into custody.

Harvard University has joined the growing list of institutions targeted by the Trump administration for federal funding cuts.

A lawyer for a Palestinian man arrested at a Vermont immigration office during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship says her client is relieved that he hasn’t been moved out of state.

The speed and scope of the federal government’s efforts to terminate the legal status of international students have stunned colleges and universities across the country.

On one side is Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, with a brand so powerful that its name is synonymous with prestige.

The federal government says it is freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts to Harvard University.

For the first time in over a decade, Chicago’ s public school teachers have a new contract without a strike or threat of a walkout.

The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.

A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey has renewed a push for her release, saying in court documents that she feared for her life when she was detained by immigration officials on the streets of a Boston suburb.

Hundreds of school districts around the U.S. may have to abandon plans to acquire electric buses after the EPA froze the latest round of money that was part of President Biden’s infrastructure law.

Enrollment in Broward County Public Schools has dropped by nearly 38,000 students over the past decade, and officials expect to lose another 8,000 next year.

The 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship trophy was on display at Brownsville Middle School on Thursday.

The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

The Education Department has withdrawn from an agreement to address disparities in discipline for Native American students at a South Dakota school system, saying it was wrongly rooted in efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

Students and staff were safely evacuated Wednesday morning after a fire broke out at Miami Beach Senior High School, prompting a large emergency response, authorities confirmed.

Cornell University and Northwestern University say they haven't received any notice from the U.S. government about paused federal funding even though the White House says more than $1 billion for Cornell and about $790 million for Northwestern have been frozen.

Inside Miami Northwestern Senior High School, history is being made by Jaiel Langston.

Former Northwestern University football players are finalizing an agreement with the school to settle lawsuits alleging hazing and abuse on the team that led to longtime coach Pat Fitzgerald’s firing.

An immigration judge in Louisiana says she will decide later this week whether the government can continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University activist facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests.

Some Democratic-led states and cities are pushing back on a Trump administration threat to cut education funding over diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, creating a standoff that could test how far the White House is willing to go to press its demands on the nation’s schools.

The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash over the changes.

Many parents need child care scholarships to work.

More than 1,000 international students at 128 colleges and universities have had their visas revoked or their legal status terminated since mid-March.

Maine officials are suing the administration of President Donald Trump to try to stop the government from freezing federal money in the wake of a dispute over transgender athletes in sports.

The American Library Association has unveiled the 10 most “challenged books” of 2024.

New York state school officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with its demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices, despite the administration’s threats to terminate federal education funding.

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library this week.

The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s plea to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money as part of its anti-DEI efforts.

A 20-year-old teacher at HOPE Academy in Homestead has been accused of engaging in sexual activity with a 14-year-old student that occurred over a span of several months last year, authorities confirmed Friday.

Some alumni want Harvard to resist Trump administration demands the university must meet to receive $9 billion in federal grants and contracts being threatened during an investigation into campus antisemitism.

A crackdown on foreign students is alarming college leaders, who say the Trump administration is using new tactics and vague justifications to push some students out of the country.

A White House official says the Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University.

Yale Law School has fired a scholar it says refused to appear in person to answer questions about her possible ties to organizations deemed to support terrorism.

As a condition for receiving federal money, the Trump administration is ordering K-12 schools to they're following federal civil rights laws and ending any discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

A 45-year-old custodian at Indian Ridge Middle School in Davie was arrested Tuesday on several charges related to child pornography, Jail records confirmed Wednesday.

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Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cements a liberal majority on the state’s top court for at least three more years.

President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday laid off scores of Health and Human Services employees, including many who ran the Head Start early education program.

U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts.

The “Gulf of America” bill, SB 608 continues to move along in the Florida Legislature.

The Trump administration has halted several dozen federal research grants at Princeton University.

A Cornell University student facing deportation after his visa was revoked over campus activism said he decided to leave the United States.

Twenty staffers at a suburban Philadelphia charter school are facing charges related to the alleged physical abuse of students in a program that helps them deal with emotional issues.

Georgia lawmakers said repeatedly that a student-tracking database had been removed from a school safety bill.

Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism.

Mexico says a government-sponsored junk food ban in schools has taken effect as the country tries to tackle one of the world’s worst obesity and diabetes epidemics.

Thousands of people have rallied outside a pro-government television station in Serbia accused of a propaganda campaign against university students behind months of anti-corruption protests.

Columbia University's interim president Katrina Armstrong has resigned, returning to her post running the New York school's medical center.

A federal judge in Massachusetts says a Tufts University doctoral student who was detained this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order.

The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service academy.

The Trump administration is investigating Maine with a claim that dozens of school districts in the state violate federal law by withholding information about students’ gender transitioning from parents.

After decades of partnership with the U.S. government, American colleges are facing new doubts about the future of their federal funding.

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests, appeared before a judge in New Jersey to debate where Khalil’s fight to be released from federal custody should play out.

The Trump administration says it has opened investigations into the admissions policies at Stanford University and three campuses within the University of California system, including UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine.

President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy after signing an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Education Department.

A Turkish student detained by federal police as she walked on the streets of a Boston suburb is the latest supporter of Palestinian causes to be swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants who have expressed their political views.

The U.S. Education Department reopened online applications Wednesday for income-driven repayment plans for student loan borrowers.

A lawyer for a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow it to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training.

Researchers at Columbia University remain in limbo after the Ivy League institution bowed to the Trump administration’s demands for unprecedented changes in a bid to restore some $400 million in federal funds cut.

A federal judge says Iowa for now cannot continue to enforce part of its book ban law.

A federal judge New York has ruled that a Columbia University student who is facing potential deportation for participating in a pro-Palestinian protest cannot be detained by immigration officials for now.

There was a false alarm at a private school that caused some parents to panic on Tuesday morning after a report of an intruder in Miami-Dade County.

Governors in several Republican-led states are pressing the Trump administration to cut the strings attached to their federal education aid, a goal conservatives have long dreamed of that now appears within reach as President Donald Trump moves to dismantle the Education Department.

As colleges and universities respond to Trump administration directives to change how they operate, educators worry that fewer international students will want to study in the U.S.

One of Republican Patrick Morrisey’s first moves as West Virginia governor was to issue an executive order allowing families to apply for religious exemptions to mandated childhood vaccinations.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing people’s private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management.

Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that can wreak havoc on people and the environment.

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon says Columbia University is “on the right track” to recover federal funding frozen by the Trump administration.

Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.