Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.A parade of principals extolled the virtues of their schools Thursday to the Board of Education, moments before it took action to ramp up a comprehensi…
ITHACA, N.Y. — The national media spotlight is once more focused on the Cornell University professor and activist who made controversial remarks about Hamas’ attacks against Israel last October. History and Africana Studies professor Russell Rickford returned to teaching last month after spending the majority of last academic year on a voluntary leave of absence.…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.Several Philadelphia public schools will “likely” close over the next few years, the city Board of Education president said Tuesday, stating that the s…
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools.After ChatGPT exploded in popularity, New York City’s public school system quickly pushed back on the powerful chatbot, arguing it couldn’t help students build …
Workers say the university’s lowest-paid employees carry some of the highest cost burdens for parking at SU. The post Up next for unions at Syracuse University: overhauling the employee parking cost structure appeared first on Central Current.
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Nearly 1 in 3 K-12 students in Michigan missed 10% or more school days this past academic year, a tiny decrease from last year but still considerably higher than before the pandemic.The troublesome trend comes as state test scores show students have st…
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools.Months after schools Chancellor David Banks removed a controversial parent leader from a Manhattan education council, a federal judge this week ordered she be t…
Members of the United Auto Workers Local 2300 approved a new contract with Cornell University that will deliver major wage increases to workers and officially end a strike that heavily disrupted the Ivy League school.
This fall, schools in Vestal and Binghamton will begin requiring students to put away their phones in locked, magnetic pouches during the school day. The policy is meant to cut down on tech-related distractions in class.