Hazel Health, which once described itself as “the largest K-12 mental and physical health provider in the nation,” faces an uncertain future after enduring two rounds of layoffs since last fall and the loss of several lucrative contracts with school districts. In February, the telehealth company let go of 135 staff members, including clinicians who...

Community members packed a high school auditorium in Chelsea, Massachusetts, last month to oppose the school board’s plan to cut 70 positions, including reading coaches, special education staff and counselors.  “These support systems are what students really rely on,” one girl told the board. “As someone who struggles a lot with being overwhelmed and anxious,...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory Monday to those who argue that schools should inform parents if their child changes their gender identity, even without the student’s consent. In the California case, Mirabelli v. Bonta, the conservative justices reinstated a December district court decision that temporarily blocked schools from keeping such information private or...

The Trump administration says California schools violated parents’ rights by pressuring schools to keep students’ gender transitions a secret. In the decision announced Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education told state officials that they can resolve the dispute by treating any school “gender support plans” as education records available for parents’ inspection and let districts...

For the past 17 years, former Los Angeles school board members and staff have trekked to a ranch in the mountains southwest of Denver to enjoy the company of their onetime district superintendent, Roy Romer. Wielding chainsaws, they helped the 97-year-old former Colorado governor clear out fallen timber this year to make a path for...

Education policy and Hollywood rarely intersect.  But when filmmaker Rob Reiner latched onto the science about how young children develop, he not only used his moviemaking platform to convince the public of the importance of kids’ early years, he became a real-life policymaker to champion the cause.  After successfully steering the passage of a 1998...

GARDENA, Calif. — Two weeks into the new school year, Principal Sherree Lewis-DeVaughn eagerly showed off improvements to 135th Elementary School, where she’s been principal since 2022. A painter prepped the side of a classroom building at the school for a new mural — smiling dragons in caps and gowns, and the district slogan: “Ready...

In 2022, near the end of her youngest child’s freshman year in high school, a Southern California mom spotted an unfamiliar male name on an online biology assignment: Toby. When she asked the teacher about it, he shrugged it off as a nickname. While scrolling through Instagram, the mother noticed her child’s friends also called...

In May, the Long Beach Unified School District in California will open the Center for Black Student Excellence, which it calls a “bold step in the district’s ongoing efforts to address systemic harm” by providing extra support for Black students. Leaders say they have no plans to hit pause on the project despite a Feb....

When she taught third grade in Houston, Summer Robinson invited a friend, a female mechanical engineer at Chevron, to visit her class. She wanted to introduce students, especially girls, to a STEM practitioner who didn’t conform to the socially awkward stereotype in popular culture. “She communicates really well, and the kids just loved it so...