Samira Hardcastle, a former Metro Nashville Teacher of the Year, resigned after nearly a decade and went public with claims that district practices pushed her out, including being asked to change a student's failing grade. Metro Nashville Public Schools disputes key parts of her account.
Mary Johnson
A seventh-grade student is in custody after a teacher was stabbed during class at Jonesville Middle School in Lee County, Virginia, on Thursday morning. The sheriff said the teacher's injuries are serious but not life-threatening, and credited several students with stopping the attack.
Mary Johnson
The Quality Education Commission says schools need $13.8 billion just to hold steady and $16.2 billion to hit new targets. Enrollment has dropped nearly 33,000 students since 2017, and even the commission's own chair says more money alone won't fix it.
Mary Johnson
The rules LAUSD approved in spring are now live: no screens for first grade and under, with limits rolling to every grade this year. One science teacher says 75% of his work ran through a screen and he doesn't feel set up for success.
Mary Johnson
The Georgia district couldn't justify $400,000 electric buses on its own budget, so federal Clean School Bus money bought them. The district says the 75 buses will carry about a third of its bused students.
Mary Johnson
Shenandoah County restored Stonewall Jackson High and Ashby-Lee Elementary in 2024, four years after dropping the names. A judge ruled the reversal discriminated against Black students, who number fewer than a dozen at each school.
Mary Johnson
New Georgia Milestones results show gains in nearly every grade, with fourth, fifth, sixth and Algebra hitting all-time highs. Eighth grade math slipped to 46% proficient, and that's the grade that signals whether kids are ready for high school math.
Mary Johnson
The AI-based private school network is opening in Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill, charging up to $65,000. The Jamaica Plain building belonged to the Croft School, which folded in June owing $12 million. Boston's school committee approved one location and says it has no oversight of what happens next.
Mary Johnson
Matt Henson coached track at Parkview High for years, made the state coaches hall of fame in 2025, and was arrested this week on a felony theft charge. Parents' concerns about the booster club's finances started the investigation.
Mary Johnson
Viral haul videos are colliding with real inflation, and 62% of K-12 parents say they spend more than planned because their kid asked for a specific brand. The average family will spend about $864 this year. Here's what's behind both numbers.
Mary Johnson
Jefferson County teachers expected the high-need school stipend to phase out slowly. Instead, 17 schools serving nearly 12,000 students were dropped entirely, and the district and the union don't agree on why.
Mary Johnson
County officials found LAUSD's financial plan can't cover its future cash obligations, triggering a 45-day deadline to fix it. Layoffs, furloughs and school consolidation are all on the table. The district has lost a third of its students since 2017.
Mary Johnson
Hardin County Schools says students were using metal bottles as weapons, causing concussions and hospital trips. The ban starts with classes on Aug. 6, and Hardin is far from the first district to do this.
Mary Johnson
Lancaster Country Day School wants a lawsuit thrown out. Two students pleaded guilty to 59 felony counts. The school's defense rests on a gap in Pennsylvania law that lawmakers have been trying to close ever since.
Mary Johnson
High schoolers from all 50 states spent a weekend in a replica Senate chamber in Boston and passed the Students First Act. A superintendents group is now sending it to 10,000 school leaders who are writing their own AI rules with no federal guidance.
Mary Johnson
Salamanca put its humanoid robot pilot on hold while it works out student data privacy agreements with the state. The superintendent says Sally was never going to teach. The state commissioner points out a board presentation called it a tutoring platform.
Mary Johnson
Florida, Georgia and Colorado schools are installing teacher-activated drones that can smash windows, spray pepper gel, and ram an attacker at 60 mph. They have never been used in a real shooting.
Mary Johnson
Thirteen elementary schools and seven middle schools went back Tuesday, two weeks ahead of the rest of Dallas ISD. The extra days come with state funding attached, and they run in the opposite direction from districts cutting to four-day weeks.
Mary Johnson
Six-year-old John Medina has been disciplined 33 times since 2023, including 14 suspensions. His parents say Fayette County keeps punishing behavior tied to his autism instead of following the plan meant to prevent it.
Mary Johnson
A Richland County jury found the district grossly negligent after a ninth grader collapsed at a June football practice and spent 10 days in a medically induced coma. The details of what the school allegedly skipped are the part every football parent should read.
Mary Johnson
