Salamanca High School will be the first US school to deploy a humanoid robot and AI teaching assistant. Teachers want a pause, the state has raised privacy concerns, and Seneca residents say a school where roughly a third of students are Native American should not be the test site.
Mary Johnson
Chattooga County is one of only a handful of Georgia districts on a four-day school week. The free Mondays are real, but so is the trade-off: the district runs 38 weeks instead of 36 and started school unusually early to fit the required instructional days in.
Mary Johnson
Jeannie Norris ran Miss Hall's School for 16 years. Prosecutors now say she knew about a teacher's inappropriate relationships with students and failed to act. The rare part is not the abuse charges against the teacher. It is that the head of school is charged too.
Mary Johnson
A janitor at Daisy Elementary School in Hamilton County, Tennessee has been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor after investigators say he created digitally altered abuse images of school staff and students. Here is what authorities have said, and how the district and its contractor responded.
Mary Johnson
Minnesota's third-largest district is facing mounting criticism over weak financial controls after multimillion-dollar deficits, years of budgeting errors, and a $5 million IRS penalty. A newly unredacted report adds detail. Here is what happened, and the enrollment squeeze underneath it.
Mary Johnson
Alpha School, a billionaire-backed private chain that runs on two hours of AI learning a day and has no certified teachers, is opening in Oklahoma City and Tulsa this August. Tuition is $40,000, nearly double the priciest private school in the state. Here is how it works and why critics are alarmed.
Mary Johnson
A new Common Sense Media report says Google's AI-powered Search is an 'unacceptable risk' for students, and here is the catch that makes it a headache for schools: you cannot disable the AI without disabling Google Search entirely. That means a kid can hit AI Mode just by doing homework.
Mary Johnson
The Warwick School District has scheduled an August 5 hearing on whether to dismiss Bonfield Elementary principal Amy Balsbaugh, who it says left the school's facility dog, Callie, in a hot car on school grounds. Here is what the district alleges and what happens next.
Mary Johnson
North Carolina released its 2025 school report cards. ACT scores jumped 13% and more students took AP courses, but the letter grades tell a harder story: more schools landed a D or F than an A or B. Here is the statewide breakdown, plus a look at the Triad.
Mary Johnson
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating DeKalb County, Richmond County, and Savannah-Chatham County over whether they let employees accused of sexual misconduct quietly move to new jobs, a practice known as 'passing the trash.' All three districts say they follow the law.
Mary Johnson
Two Lake County charter school principals were arrested on DUI charges hours apart on the Fourth of July, both tied to the same white Jeep. Bodycam video shows the second principal was pulled over again around 5 a.m., after being sent home earlier.
Mary Johnson
NIL is now a fact of life in college sports. If Texas lets high school athletes get paid too, Dallas-area coaches warn it would gut neighborhood programs, create super teams, and push more coaches out of the profession. Here is what they are saying.
Mary Johnson
The 5th Circuit lifted the decades-old desegregation mandate over Concordia Parish, a case dating to 1965. Supporters call it local control restored. Civil rights groups call the orders still-needed tools. Here is what the ruling does.
Mary Johnson
Steinbrenner High valedictorian Vaibhav Bhaskar finished with a record 11.99 weighted GPA by stacking 20 AP classes and 24 dual-enrollment courses. Hillsborough County is now capping GPAs so no one can do it again. Here is why.
Mary Johnson
The FCC has opened a review of E-Rate, the 1990s program that gives schools and libraries discounted internet, citing a goal of limiting student screen time. Educators, especially in rural districts with one provider, are bracing for the funding to shrink.
Mary Johnson
The new state budget quietly rewrote how North Carolina licenses teachers: no more admissions tests for teacher-prep programs, more time for new teachers to pass exams, and an easier path for out-of-state hires. Here is what each change actually does.
Mary Johnson
Lehman Catholic High School in Sidney, Ohio is dropping Mondays, citing teacher burnout and a chance for students to do college prep, tutoring, and real work experience. Here is what the school said, and how it fits a fast-growing trend.
Mary Johnson
In one of the first federal K-12 admissions settlements under the Trump administration, the Justice Department has forced Jersey City to scrap the racial-quota system at Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, a top-ranked New Jersey magnet school.
Mary Johnson
Under a new Indiana law, a school must earn an 'A' on the state's accountability scale, among other requirements, before it can apply to run a four-day week. The state's only four-day school is a high-poverty elementary that has never earned one.
Mary Johnson
Authorities say a homemade device that court records call a plasma cannon was used to burn a bush and damage a door at Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro before a group broke in. Two 18-year-olds face felony charges; a juvenile was released to a parent.
Mary Johnson
