L.A. area school destroyed in wildfire helps students thrive amid devastation: “We still have each other”

L.A. area school destroyed in wildfire helps students thrive amid devastation: "We still have each other"

An L.A. area school is finding innovative ways to keep their students engaged after the school was destroyed during the devastating California wildfires. Shawn Brown opened Pasadena Rosebud Rosebud Academy Charter School in Altadena in 2007 to give back to the community she grew up in, providing a place for students to learn things like … Read more

Trump takes aim at critical race theory in schools, protests on college campuses in new executive order

Trump takes aim at critical race theory in schools, protests on college campuses in new executive order

President Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as “critical race theory” and other material dealing with race and sexuality or risk losing their federal money. A separate plan announced Wednesday calls for aggressive action to fight antisemitism on college campuses, promising to prosecute offenders and revoke visas for international students … Read more

How the 2025 Music Educator Award honoree is changing lives and influencing his students: “He’s given me life lessons”

How the 2025 Music Educator Award honoree is changing lives and influencing his students: "He's given me life lessons"

For nearly two decades, Adrian Maclin has changed lives inside and outside of his classroom. Maclin, a music teacher at Cordova High School in Memphis, Tennessee, is the winner of the 2025 Music Educator Award, which is presented by the Recording Academy and the Grammy Museum. “We don’t refer to ourselves as a choir class,” … Read more

Supreme Court to weigh approval for first publicly funded religious charter school in U.S.

Supreme Court to weigh approval for first publicly funded religious charter school in U.S.

The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case on whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision invalidating a state board’s approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a … Read more

Schools aren’t as plugged in as they should be to kids’ diabetes tech, parents say

Schools aren't as plugged in as they should be to kids' diabetes tech, parents say

Just a few years ago, children with Type 1 diabetes reported to the school nurse several times a day to get a finger pricked to check whether their blood sugar was dangerously high or low. The introduction of the continuous glucose monitor (CGM) made that unnecessary. The small device, typically attached to the arm, has … Read more

Taliban deputy says there is no excuse for education bans on Afghan women and girls

Taliban deputy says there is no excuse for education bans on Afghan women and girls

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday in southeastern Khost province. He … Read more