New Orleans closes after Hurricane Ida
Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm Sunday afternoon and "devastated" areas of southeastern Louisiana.
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S.C., Fla., Utah, Iowa in mask mandate lawsuits
Lawsuits from parents and others are challenging bans on mask mandates. Go parents!!
8,400 quarantined in a Florida district
As students fall ill and run the risk of infecting more vulnerable family members and friends, state rules and laws are mixed.
Charters not subject to equal protection
Are charters public schools or not? It depends on the particular rule or law that they're trying to apply. Title IX, yes. 14th Amendment, no.
Clamor in courts over masking mandates
Mask mandates and bans on mask mandates are streaming from political leaders; the rules are being tested in courtrooms.
Teachers in Calif. must get vaccinated
Calif. became the 1st state in the nation to issue a mandate that educators get vaccinated against Covid-19 or undergo weekly testing.
Historic Calif. town in ashes; high school still standing
A historic town in Calif. is in ashes due to the 3rd-largest wildfire in the state's modern history, but the high school, built in 1938, remains.
Delta variant surges as schools open
As schools open this fall, mask mandates and bans on mask mandates, as well as a push to get people vaccinated, dominate school news.
We congratulate the ‘Hybrid’ Class of 2021
We congratulate the 3 million or so seniors who graduate this spring amid a global pandemic and hope for a return to normal.
Top 11 school headlines of 2020
Covid dominated news in almost every aspect of life. Education was no exception. Some good, some bad, mostly just unusual and heartbreaking.