Apryl Shackelford, microschool leader and teacher, goes through sounds with the kindergarten to second graders during the school day at Primer microschool in Florida Over 100 years ago the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at least the Civil War — have long been intertwined with the ...

Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...

Sueli Gwiazdowski, 24, says she switched high schools three times when she was growing up. She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus ...

When U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon claimed in USA TODAY that the recent government shutdown showed “how little the Department of Education will be missed,” she overlooked the damage done to ...

Momentum is mounting toward a new global treaty to strengthen every child’s right to free education. From September 1 to 3, governments gathered at the United Nations in Geneva to consider an optional ...

K.D. was just starting to believe that the racial harassment her daughter had experienced at school for the last three years would finally be addressed. Students had called her daughter the N-word, ...

Beginning his tenure as Florida’s Commissioner of Education, Anastasios Kamoutsas emphasized policies and guidelines aligned with so-called "parental rights and protections" in a memorandum to ...

Madison Marino Doan is a Policy Analyst for Heritage’s Center for Education Policy. Rep. Rosa DeLauro criticized House Republicans last fall for passing a downsized education budget, accusing them of ...

The state of educational rights for undocumented people has been a longstanding policy dilemma that continues to have an uncertain trajectory. Its legal beginnings emerged in 1982, when the Supreme ...

Several new state laws affecting education take effect this month, highlighting the rights of immigrant students and the growth of artificial intelligence in schools. An amendment to the Illinois ...