The Trump administration is trying to reshape how schools discipline students – and alter the federal government’s role in the process. On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive ...

CHARLESTON — While overall disciplinary incidents in West Virginia’s school system decreased from the previous school year, students in poverty, foster care, and homeless students all saw increases in ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. The Trump administration has taken aim at a key assumption of federal civil rights ...

Durham Public Schools leaders are set to take a closer look at the discipline of students when board members review policies on Thursday. The district uses a restorative practice center, with a focus ...

President Trump is shining a spotlight on the issue of school discipline, which is closely related to the growing problems of learning loss and falling test scores, though it’s unclear how much can be ...

President Trump has signed an executive order that could pave the way for a legal challenge of California law banning student suspensions for “willfully defiant” conduct. The directive has sown ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - With another school year just around the corner, school districts are focused on how to handle student behavior. Many schools are changing their approach. Many think students in ...

McGregor Elementary Principal Rebekah Kirby did not sugarcoat the difficult work involved in addressing student behavior issues. In a presentation Tuesday during a school board retreat, she explained ...

Nine years ago, when I began writing about school discipline, the big revelation was that children as young as 6 were being suspended. Today, in the wake of the pandemic, teachers and families are ...

Black students, for example, have been overrepresented in special education since 1968, when the U.S. Office for Civil Rights first began tracking school district data. The starkest disparities appear ...

Since at least 2022, the education world has been preoccupied with the “teacher exodus”: a troubling trend of teachers quitting at record rates. Though attrition has eased somewhat since its pandemic ...