The president of the Chicago school board resigned Thursday just a week after he was appointed because of social media posts deemed antisemitic, anti-women and lending credence to a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Never before in a presidential election cycle has there been so much discussion of the child tax credit — a tool many Democrats and Republicans have endorsed as a way to lift children and young families out of poverty.

Raines High School surprised Principal Vincent Hall with the Duval County Principal of the Year award.

President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, who dressed as a giant panda, hosted their final White House Halloween trick-or-treating event on Wednesday.

The Duval County School Board is scheduled to vote Nov. 4 on its Master Facility Plan. During the final public hearing on the Master Facility Plan Tuesday night, parents and students asked why the plan includes closing schools in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The nationwide debate over transgender rights is playing out on a personal level in a federal court lawsuit filed by a former Liberty University employee fired by the Christian school after disclosing her identity as a transgender woman.

A new list ranking the top school districts in Florida featured St. Johns, Clay and Nassau counties in the Top 10.

The changes are part of the latest version of Duval County Public Schools’ Master Facility Plan.

Contract negotiations have broken down between the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the union representing the food service workers in the Duval County Public Schools system, and Chartwells K12, the district’s food service provider.

In just a few years, the issue of student loan cancellation has gone from being a pillar of the Democratic Party to a political liability.

The school system in Aurora, Colorado, is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and Colombia.

Officials in New Haven, Connecticut, are considering a public apology for a decision by city leaders in 1831 to reject what would have been the nation's first Black college.

The Biden administration is moving ahead with a new path to student loan cancellation for Americans who face steep medical bills, child care costs and other types of financial hardship that prevent them from repaying their loans.

High school seniors in Asheville are grappling with several important life decisions as they still recover from the devastating impact of Hurricane Helene on their region.

Louisiana’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, has filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1.

One of the most important signs of how people will vote is how much education they have.

All over the country, people with more education are leaning more Democratic, a shift that's reshaping American politics.

A 14-year-old Georgia boy indicted for murder in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School has pleaded not guilty.

Some of the most visible demonstrations on college campuses this fall have involved professors speaking up for the right to protest itself.

President Joe Biden has honored acclaimed filmmakers, writers and others who have made their mark on American culture, awarding the prestigious National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to 39 recipients.

Jill Biden has unveiled what she's calling a reimagined White House public tour that was designed to teach visitors more about the mansion's history and events that unfolded in some of its famous rooms.

A federal judge has heard arguments on whether he should temporarily block a new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1.

One of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults at them has died at age 83.

A fellowship program is training young Black men to become literacy aides in preschool classrooms across the country.

Clay County District Schools is again recognized as one of Florida’s top-performing school districts out of 67 counties.

A group of Oklahoma parents, teachers and ministers are suing to stop the state's top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans.

A grand jury in Georgia has indicted a father and son in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder.

An outspoken pro-Israel professor at Columbia University has been temporarily barred from campus for harassing and intimidating other employees.

The time-honored tradition of high school athletes proudly sitting behind a table and signing a national letter of intent is a thing of the past.

Tens of thousands of students in the Southeast are dealing with school disruptions after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc so severe — on homes, campuses and municipal power and water systems — that some districts have no idea when they will reopen.

Conservative politicians in states such as Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee have been questioning whether immigrants without legal residency should have the right to a public education.

A California school has planted a tree that’s out of this world.

An NCAA study on social media abuse of athletes, coaches and other officials during championship events found nearly one in five posts that were flagged by an AI-based algorithm and determined to be abusive involved sexual harassment and 12% were related to sports betting.

Brown University has rejected a proposal to divest from 10 companies that protesters say were facilitating the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.

North Carolina legislators have approved an initial $273 million relief package to help address Hurricane Helene’s devastation and recovery in the mountains.

The regents who govern Georgia’s public universities and colleges want the NCAA to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports.

The Ballmer Group, Blue Meridian Partners, and others are helping Partners for Rural Impact take a model from Harlem and adapt it for Appalachian Kentucky and beyond.

A judge has given preliminary approval to the $2.78 billion legal settlement that figures to transform college sports.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has named members of a new school board, days after all seven members resigned amid an escalating fight over control of the public schools in the nation’s third-largest city.

A judge in Missouri temporarily blocked the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness plan for a second time, just one day after a federal judge green-lit the program to move forward.

Campuses across the U.S. have been calmer in the wake of last spring’s protests, yet many are mired in a lingering unease.

More than a thousand students went to the Prime F. Osborn Center III Saturday morning to explore higher education opportunities at the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) National College Fair.

Her sister, Alexis Williams, said the teen was an athlete looking to play basketball at the next level.

The reports are the result of the districts 'Know the Line' campaign.

Atlantic Beach Elementary will hold a celebration Friday morning after learning the school will not close as part of the district’s Master Facility plan.

This November voters will decide if they want to extend the half-cent sales tax and increase property taxes.

A federal judge in Missouri put a temporary hold on President Joe Biden’s latest student loan cancellation plan on Thursday, slamming the door on hope it would move forward after another judge allowed a pause to expire.

New York City is speeding up its switch to a new schools chief after Mayor Eric Adams' indictment.

The changes are part of the latest version of Duval County Public Schools’ Master Facility Plan.

Officials and rescuers say a school bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok, leaving more than 20 feared dead.

Preschools around the country are starting students early on civics education.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has voted unanimously to fire a communications professor who was seeking to retain tenure after his dismissal as chancellor of one of the system’s campuses for making pornographic films.

A 17-year-old Englewood High School student was arrested Monday after police said they found multiple guns in his car.

The St. Johns County School District will host four town halls in the upcoming weeks to talk to community members and voters about two referendums on the November ballot intended to funnel more money into the school system.

The head of New York City’s public schools system says he will step down at the end of the calendar year, becoming the latest high-ranking departure from Mayor Eric Adams’ administration amid an escalating federal inquiry.

News4JAX will update this list as we learn more from our local districts and schools.

Students have begun pouring into Apalachee High School weeks after a school shooter killed two students and two teachers.

Two Northeast Florida schools out of the 15 in Florida for the 2024 Cohort of the National Blue Ribbon were recognize by the U.S. Department of Education.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring school districts to restrict student phone use.

A new report by congressional Republicans asserts that partnerships between the U.S. and China at universities over the past decade have allowed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to aid Beijing in developing critical technology that could be used for military purposes.

A bench trial began last week in Baltimore federal court in a civil case over affirmative action at American military academies.

Hundreds of students had the opportunity to learn more about colleges and scholarship opportunities at the sixth annual HBCU Legacy College Fair in downtown Jacksonville.

Some churches are launching new Christian schools on their campuses, seeking to give parents more education options that align with religious values.

Some churches are launching new Christian schools on their campuses.

A closely watched First Amendment rights case in Wisconsin involves a former campus chancellor who was fired after making pornographic videos with his wife.

From Duval, Volusia, Putnam, and other Northeast Florida counties, several students have been arrested and charged over school threats recently.

The changes are part of the latest version of Duval County Public Schools’ Master Facility Plan.

A Pennsylvania state senator and former Republican gubernatorial candidate whose support for Donald Trump drew him to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is suing a Canadian university and nearly two dozen academics.

The changes are part of the latest version of Duval County Public Schools’ Master Facility Plan.

Two referendums are on the ballot to support St. Johns County schools as the area continues to see rapid growth.

Communities nationwide are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, with emergency notifications and group chat messages sparking parents’ fears their child’s school could be the next Parkland or Uvalde.

A longtime donor who has given more than $160 million to Tulane University is the new namesake of the university’s expanding school of public health.

A top supplier of digital devices for U.S. prisons is launching a new program to help incarcerated individuals earn a high school diploma by using the company’s tablets.

Students at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta will return to campus for half-days beginning next week.

We got our first look Tuesday at the new Manta Ray who will be roaming around Florida State College at Jacksonville.

In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common.

An adobe-style Texas building educated Mexican and Mexican-American children in classrooms that alumni call barracks.

The former schools police chief in Uvalde, Texas, made his first court appearance for his role in the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.

Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers and wearable panic alert buttons after a school shooting killed four at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday is set to hold an education-related news conference in Orlando.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday is set to hold an education-related news conference in Orlando.

Records released Friday show a Georgia county’s emergency call center was overwhelmed by calls on Sept. 4 about a school shooting at Apalachee High School.

A new report says former University of Florida president Ben Sasse spent over $1.3 million on private catering for lavish dinners, football tailgates and extravagant social functions.

A consulting firm run by the brother of two top New York City officials is facing federal scrutiny over his work on behalf of companies that were seeking city contracts.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that a measure seeking to repeal a new conservative-backed law providing taxpayer money for private school tuition should appear on the state's November ballot.

A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement with students and parents.

The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers 30 years ago.

Brilliant Detroit, the early childhood education nonprofit that supports children in underserved communities “from belly to 8,” plans to expand its unique neighborhood-based holistic model beyond The Motor City.

Newly released reports from North Carolina's public university system to prove compliance with a new systemwide diversity policy show several DEI position cuts and reassignments were made.

There was a slight decline in the numbers of Black students in Harvard University's freshman class, which follows a Supreme Court ruling which struck down affirmative action in higher education.

Sheriff T.K. Waters, Superintendent Christopher Bernier of Duval Couty Public Schools, and Adair Newman, one of the Chief Assistants of the State Attorney’s Office, are set to hold a news conference Wednesday afternoon to discuss recent serious threats made against local schools and students.

Sheriff T.K. Waters, Superintendent Christopher Bernier of Duval Couty Public Schools, and Adair Newman, one of the Chief Assistants of the State Attorney’s Office, are set to hold a news conference Wednesday afternoon to discuss recent serious threats made against local schools and students.

The U.S. consumer watchdog has found that low-income families typically pay as much as 60 cents per dollar in fees when paying for school lunches electronically.

Many students in Georgia’s Barrow County headed back to class six days after a school shooting killed two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta.

Asked recently how he would bring down the high cost of child care, former President Donald Trump said doing so would be relatively “not very expensive” — at least, not compared with revenue from tax hikes he would impose on foreign goods.

The former head of food services for New York City public schools has been sentenced to two years in prison for a bribery scandal that resulted in children being served chicken tenders contaminated with metal and bone.

A scam targeting college students is making the rounds, particularly preying on those starting new internships or on-campus jobs.

Over the past two years, an unprecedented number of Venezuelans have traveled to the U.S. border, seeking a better life.

The remote Duck Valley reservation that straddles Nevada and Idaho has battled toxic contaminants on its land for decades.

The shooting at a Georgia high school has highlighted concerns raised about a growing effort to ban or restrict cellphones in the classroom.