(State Laws on Public Records) Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 10
(State Laws on Open Meetings) Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 2
Huntington Beach officials have taken a controversial step towards implementing a new law that would require adults working in city facilities to inform parents if their children identify as transgender or gay.
Illinoisans already face a high tax burden and now DeKalb County school districts are asking voters to raise sales taxes for schools. Sales taxes would go up 1% in DeKalb County if voters approve the County School Facility Occupation Tax. DeKalb County Board Vice Chairman John Frieders told The Center Square that the school districts in DeKalb County are struggling financially.
First grade students at Rhodes Academy in Hempstead had a special guest to wrap up their first week back at school amid a sudden shakeup that ousted the district's superintendent.
ACT scores for individual high schools in Kansas show concerning declines since 2015 in most cases.
The Louisiana law requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments is constitutional, state Attorney General Liz Murrill argues in a legal brief filed this week.
The Missouri secretary of state last year enacted a rule requiring libraries to “adopt written policies determining what material is age-appropriate.” But at least one Kansas City-area library seems to have passed the buck on to parents.
The St. Louis mayor has requested an audit of the city’s public schools one week after the furlough of its superintendent, even as school board members blame one another for “illegitimate” leadership.
The New Hampshire Department of Education is appealing a federal court ruling striking down the state’s controversial “divisive concepts” law, reopening a court case about whether the state can regulate how educators discuss race, gender, and other topics with students. The appeal came two months after a federal court judge ruled that the 2021 law was “unconstitutionally vague,” a characterization that New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella argues was an overstep.
From kindergarten through third grade, North Carolina public school students scored higher than the national average on literary assessments at the end of last school year, state officials said.
FBI agents have arrested an Ohio elementary school teacher for the “possession and distribution of child sexual abuse images,” while alleging agents found “a prepubescent female completely nude” in the hotel room with him.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a new bill into law on Wednesday regarding “religious expression days,” also known as the “R.E.D.” Act, in schools. HB 214‘s passing now requires each public school to adopt a policy that “reasonably accommodates the sincerely held religious beliefs and practices of students; to require each public school to adopt a policy regarding certain expectations related to the performance of staff member professional duties.”
(State Laws on School Board Duties) Title XV, Section 189-1A
(State Laws on Public Records) Title VI, Chapter 91A, Section 91A-4