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Tennessee bill targeting undocumented students clears hurdle in House

"This is a bully bill," said one opponent. The version that cleared the House Education Committee would allow districts to charge families tuition for students who aren’t in the country legally.

She loved teaching, but the pandemic, politics, and parents brought her to a breaking point

Stop telling teachers to practice self-care. They need real change, Katie Hicks says.

Withholding a child’s gender identity info from parents is illegal, Trump official says

Plans to support students who want to socially transition at school must be shared with parents, the U.S. Department of Education has told educators. Advocates for trans youth worry this approach could endanger some students and rob them of control over their lives.

‘COVID is over.’ Schools are out of time to spend pandemic aid, Linda McMahon says.

The extensions states and schools received from the Biden administration to spend the COVID relief set a bad precedent, a U.S. Department of Education spokeswoman said. But one state school superintendent called the move by the education secretary ‘catastrophic.”

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