Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Douglas R. Clifford/ZUMA Press/Newscom On Wednesday, the Department of Education published a letter reminding states of a ...

Earlier this month, on the heels of President Trump’s executive order on school discipline policies, the Education Department released guidance to ensure that students in unsafe public schools can ...

Blue-state governors are on high alert these days, fearing that President Donald Trump will send federal troops to address the rampant crime ravaging their constituents. But these very same governors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, the U.S. Department of Education announced it will enforce a long-overlooked federal law requiring states to identify ...

In a letter this week, the U.S. Department of Education encouraged states to identify more “persistently dangerous” schools. Federal law has a provision called the Unsafe School Choice Option, which ...

Kids trapped in dangerous schools are supposed to have an escape hatch — it’s their right under federal law. But a few years ago, New York state education officials quietly changed the rules governing ...

Colorado’s K-12 schools have a behavioral problem. More than just student safety and general decorum are at stake if schools cannot address it. Colorado needs not only to refresh its population growth ...

(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania students are not being provided with safe school choice options as the law requires because of its weak definition of “persistently dangerous,” a Commonwealth ...

Kansas may revise its criteria for "persistently dangerous schools," which has never been applied. Current Kansas law requires three years of specific incidents, including expulsions and transfers, to ...