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Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.
The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza.
A 42-year-old man stands accused of sexually abusing girls who were under his care while he worked as a Miami-Dade County Public Schools substitute teacher.
President Joe Biden’s administration has started to withdraw pending regulations that won’t be finalized by the time he leaves office.
Some U.S. colleges and universities are advising international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.
A judge has refused to allow a Michigan school shooter to withdraw his guilty plea to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder.
An official at the Wisconsin school where a student shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student says the 15-year-old was in her first semester there.
A new documentary about teacher Christa McAuliffe focuses more on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
New filings in a 2022 class-action lawsuit contend that children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities.
Police say the shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin this week brought two guns to the school.
Teddy Bridgewater is planning to make a return to the NFL after leading his alma mater, Miami Northwestern, to a state championship as head coach.
Community members in Wisconsin are continuing to wrestle with grief and calling for change in the aftermath of a school shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others.
A Palm Beach Gardens mother is demanding answers after her 8-year-old daughter was left bruised and bloodied following an alleged altercation with another child after school.
Boston is planning to renovate a crumbling stadium in one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods for its new professional women's soccer team.
Investigators in Wisconsin are trying to determine a motive in a school shooting that left a teacher and a student dead and two other children in critical condition.
Police in Madison, Wisconsin, believe multiple factors prompted a 15-year-old student to open fire at a private Christian school, but they declined to share those Tuesday.
A student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another student in the final week before Christmas break.
Florida State and Mike Norvell have agreed to a restructured contract that includes the football coach contributing $4.5 million of his 2025 salary to help launch a fundraising campaign amid the sport's changing financial landscape.
Reliance on school buses has been waning for years as districts struggle to find drivers and more students attend schools far outside their neighborhoods.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Janine Stanwood interviews Howard Hepburn, the Broward County Public Schools Superintendent; Harold Pryor, the Broward County State Attorney; Kevin Cooper, the chairman of the Republican Party of Miami-Dade County; and Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, a Miami Beach commissioner. Attorney Ed Pozzuoli and Scott Travis, a Sun-Sentinel reporter, join the Roundtable.
A new proposal for changes at public schools highlighted a painful reality: Student enrollment has significantly decreased at Broward Estates Elementary in Lauderhill.
Dr. Robert “Bob” Parks, a dedicated champion of education and a fixture in Broward County’s school system, died late last month at the age of 76, according to his online obituary obtained by Local 10 News Wednesday.
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Boston parents who claimed a temporary admissions exam policy for the city’s elite high schools discriminated against white students and those of Asian descent.
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students.
The stars of ABC’s hit show Shark Tank brought their entrepreneurial expertise to Florida Atlantic University on Wednesday, delivering a real-life business lesson to a captivated audience.
Vice President Kamala Harris and breakout pop star Chappell Roan were among the most talked-about people this year.
A judge’s overturning of Wisconsin’s 13-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for teachers and most state government employees has rekindled a battle over labor rights in a state where the first public sector unions were formed 65 years ago.
Years after COVID-19 disrupted American schools, nearly every state is still struggling with attendance.
Brown University has transferred ownership of a portion of its land in Bristol, Rhode Island to a preservation trust established by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe.
Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions have scored a major legal victory with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law.
Former U.K. Conservative Party leader William Hague has been elected chancellor of Oxford University, one of the most prestigious positions in British academia.
Regardless of whether President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants, educators around the U.S. are bracing for upheaval.
The love of books starts early at The Miami Book Fair’s Children’s Alley, which has a schedule of theatrical performances, interactive science activities, hands-on crafts, and story times.
The federal FAFSA form used to apply for college financial aid opened to high school seniors across the nation on Thursday, a year after a disastrous rollout by the Biden administration delayed the application for months.
Students at Miami Jackson Senior High School are rallying behind a prominent football coach after allegations surfaced accusing him of watching pornographic material on a school computer during work hours.
The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature has completed its override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of legislation that addresses both private school scholarship grants and immigration.
Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists.”.
Max Edwards is a successful high school football coach most recently assigned to the athletic department at Miami Jackson Senior High School.
The Texas State Board of Education has given initial approval to a Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for public schools to adopt for lessons from kindergarten through fifth grade.
A 20-year-old man accused of masturbating in front of two teenage students near a middle school in Palmetto Bay was arrested Monday after leading police on a high-speed chase through an active school zone, authorities confirmed.
A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year.
Texas A&M University is set to mark the anniversary of the campus bonfire tragedy that killed 12 people and injured dozens more 25 years ago.
Oklahoma's education superintendent has sent an email to public school superintendents requiring them to show students his video announcement of a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism.
President-elect Donald Trump has a vision for education that revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination.”.
A volleyball coach was arrested Wednesday on accusations that he molested a 16-year-old girl while he worked at the school she attends, authorities confirmed to Local 10 News.
The Republican-led Ohio Senate has approved a bill banning transgender students from using bathrooms that fit their gender identities.
Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign.
A newly unsealed federal complaint says a man accused of having a machine gun at Tuskegee University admitted to firing his weapon during a weekend shooting, but denied shooting at anyone.
Louisiana Attorney General Elizabeth Murrill says the state will ask a federal appeals court to quickly stay a lower court's order declaring unconstitutional a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1.
Extra police officers will be on the campus of one Pembroke Pines school this week after threatening statements were made against it, police confirmed on social media.
Pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course next year at Yale University.
Former first lady Michelle Obama's brother and his wife have settled a lawsuit they filed in 2022 alleging a private school in Milwaukee refused to reenroll their children after the couple raised concerns about racism.
A southeast Louisiana school board voted to shut down a predominantly Black elementary school next to a petrochemical facility embroiled in multiple lawsuits over its high levels of toxic emissions.
President-elect Donald Trump has not said what he would do on student loan forgiveness, leaving millions of borrowers facing uncertainty over what will happen with their payments once President Joe Biden leaves office.
Money from name, image and likeness deals has changed what it means to be an NCAA athlete for some college players.
Members of the Broward County School Board met Wednesday to discuss potential adjustments to the district’s new cellphone policy, which currently requires students to keep their devices off or on airplane mode throughout the school day.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools are earning top marks, with 161 schools receiving the 2023-2024 Schools of Excellence designation in Florida.
Jodi Picoult's “Nineteen Minutes” has topped a list compiled by PEN America of the books most often pulled from school shelves.
A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children.
The president of the Chicago school board resigned Thursday just a week after he was appointed because of social media posts deemed anti-Semitic, anti-women and lending credence to a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Never before in a presidential election cycle has there been so much discussion of the child tax credit — a tool many Democrats and Republicans have endorsed as a way to lift children and young families out of poverty.
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, who dressed as a giant panda, hosted their final White House Halloween trick-or-treating event on Wednesday.
A Fort Lauderdale elementary school principal goes above and beyond every day for her students, their families and school staff, according to her colleagues.
The nationwide debate over transgender rights is playing out on a personal level in a federal court lawsuit filed by a former Liberty University employee fired by the Christian school after disclosing her identity as a transgender woman.
In just a few years, the issue of student loan cancellation has gone from being a pillar of the Democratic Party to a political liability.
The school system in Aurora, Colorado, is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and Colombia.
Officials in New Haven, Connecticut, are considering a public apology for a decision by city leaders in 1831 to reject what would have been the nation's first Black college.
The Biden administration is moving ahead with a new path to student loan cancellation for Americans who face steep medical bills, child care costs and other types of financial hardship that prevent them from repaying their loans.
High school seniors in Asheville are grappling with several important life decisions as they still recover from the devastating impact of Hurricane Helene on their region.
Parents and guardians of students attending Broward County Schools should take a look at the revised 2024-2025 school calendar, after an update by the district due to hurricane closures.
Miami-Dade County Schools and law enforcement have teamed up with BusPatrol to reduce dangerous driving around stopped school buses.
Louisiana’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, has filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1.
All over the country, people with more education are leaning more Democratic, a shift that's reshaping American politics.
President Joe Biden has honored acclaimed filmmakers, writers and others who have made their mark on American culture, awarding the prestigious National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to 39 recipients.
Jill Biden has unveiled what she's calling a reimagined White House public tour that was designed to teach visitors more about the mansion's history and events that unfolded in some of its famous rooms.
A federal judge has heard arguments on whether he should temporarily block a new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1.
One of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults at them has died at age 83.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Lauren Brenzel, the campaign director of Yes on 4; Charles Whatley, the Broward County Sheriff candidate challenging Sheriff Gregory Tony; Lori Alhadeff, the chair of the Broward County School Board; and David Richardson, a candidate for Miami-Dade Tax Collector.
A fellowship program is training young Black men to become literacy aides in preschool classrooms across the country.
