Sunday, September 27, 2026
Sunday, September 6, 2026
State's top health official says vaccine waiver trend risks disease outbreaks in schools
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Federal judge tosses Trump lawsuit over young trans athletes in California school sports
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/trump-trans-athletes-california-lawsuit-dismissed
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Monday, August 24, 2026
Nebraska school district asks police to stop using shock gloves on students
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/22/omaha-nebraska-school-district-shock-gloves-police
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Judge halts Trump’s abstinence-only overhaul of teen sex ed program - POLITICO
“An educational initiative that counsels teens on how to avoid pregnancy without discussing the realities of unprotected intercourse and its alternatives would seem to defy social reality, common sense, and scientific evidence alike,” Cooper wrote. “Yet HHS seeks to impose these and other unexplained criteria on all TPP grantees moving forward.”…
In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs accused the administration of unlawfully forcing them to “use non-evidence-based curricula that exclusively promote abstinence-only before marriage” and “ideologically-driven, medically inaccurate information, including misinformation regarding contraception.”…
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
U.S. school vaccination rates inch down again as exemptions reach record high | PBS News
All states allow exemptions for children with medical conditions that prevent them from receiving certain vaccines. And most also permit exemptions for religious or other nonmedical reasons. In the last decade, the percentage of kindergartners with medical exemptions has held steady, at about 0.2%. But the percentage with nonmedical exemptions has risen...
Supreme Court asked to review Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments in public schools | PBS News
In their Supreme Court brief, the families' attorneys argue that the law violates basic First Amendment principles governing the separation of church and state.
"The question of whether a state may impose scripture on impressionable, captive-audience children — for nearly every hour of every school day, for up to (13) years — implicates the most fundamental guarantees of the First Amendment and our Nation's highest ideals," they wrote...
Friday, August 7, 2026
Friday, July 31, 2026
Students created AI rules they hope schools will adopt : NPR
"There's nothing that says students need to be proficient before using it," Herrera told her subcommittee colleagues. "It's basically saying they can use it whenever. Which I think is a misuse of it."
Her subcommittee's proposed solution: require schools to teach AI literacy as soon as devices are introduced in the classroom, including misinformation, plagiarism, bias in AI design, student privacy, appropriate academic use and AI's environmental impact...
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/nx-s1-5853571/students-set-ai-policy
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jul/28/school-shootings-pepper-spray-drones
Monday, July 27, 2026
Teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school
Realbotix has denied ties to the sex doll company, and denied any inferences that the dolls – manufactured by Abyss Creations, a subsidiary of Realbotix – are related to the pilot program. “
The Salamanca teachers’ union as a whole is concerned about the background of the company of Realbotix. We’re very concerned about the security of the software that they’re implementing, and whether or not the data will be stored, how it will be gathered, are the recording capabilities,” said Lacey Pihlblad, president of Salamanca Teachers’ Association and a teacher at the high school…
“The answer to the challenges in education is not more screens, it’s not more algorithms, not more robots. What we need in our schools right now are more caring adults and more human connection,” she said…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/new-york-humanoid-robot-teachers-school
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Saturday, July 11, 2026
No internet, no screen time? FCC weighs cutting subsidy that lowers school internet bills
"In rural Alaska, we don't have numerous options," says Patrick Mayer, superintendent for the remote Alaska Gateway School District. "We have one provider."
His district, where some students rely on planes to get to school in the winter months, has just under 400 students. Still, the district spends more than half a million dollars per year to ensure it has internet access at its six schools. The price tag is high, but the connection is what allows them to keep up with the rest of the world.
"It means the difference between having a school in the 21st century," Mayer says, "or a school in the 20th century."…
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/10/nx-s1-5878405/fcc-erate-schools-internet-discount








