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In an 8-to-1 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that a strip search of a 13-year-old girl by officials at her middle school violated the Constitution. The New York Times reports that justices concluded that the search for the pills in question, prescription-strength ibuprofen, did not justify an “embarrassing, frightening and humiliating search.”
Savana Redding, then […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that parents of special-education students may seek government reimbursement for private school tuition, even if they have never received special-education services in public school. The New York Times reports that the 6-3 decision could force school districts to spend millions of dollars on private tuition costs for special-education students. […]

For the last several weeks, the U.S. Department of Education has been issuing news releases about the latest state to receive federal stimulus funds: Nearly $4 billion for California jobs, reform; More than $321 Million for Mississippi jobs, reform; More than $681 million in recovery funds for Arizona..
Is that money getting to the schools […]

The Providence Journal reports that after the Rhode Island legislature allowed school districts to install video surveillance on school buses, the number of drivers ticketed for passing stopped school buses has soared. In five months since cameras were mounted outside of four buses in Johnston, the police issued 108 citations, up from only 2 in […]

As the federal government continues to seek greater involvement in the public education system, The Washington Post reports that the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers are behind an effort to get states to adopt a common standard for what children should be learning from kindergarten through high school. Education […]

In Newton, Mass., school officials are blaming low student participation in the lunch program as one of the key culprits behind a ballooning food-services budget deficit. The Boston Globe says the school system expects to lose $905,000 on food service next school year. Officials say the district’s food preparation has focused on wellness and […]

For the second year in a row, The U.S. House has passed the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act. If the Senate approves the legislation, and President Obama signs it, the bill would provide $6.4 billion for school construction in the first year with similar outlays approved over the next five years. After […]

Some students and professors at the University of Maryland, College Park, want the administration to back up its talk about becoming on of the nation’s “greenest” campuses, The Baltimore Sun says. They object to the university’s plan to bulldoze nearly 9 acres of woods on the 1,400-acre campus to make way for maintenance sheds, a […]

High school might be a nightmare for some students, but at Elk Grove and Hersey high schools in Chicago’s northwest suburbs, that will be literally true in the coming weeks. Township 214 School District, based in Arlington Heights, has agreed to let Elk Grove and Hersey campuses be used as locations for the remake of […]

New York City has adopted a new strategy in its effort to turn two Catholic schools into charter schools, and will no longer press for changes in state law to accomplish the conversion, The New York Times reports. City education officials have decided to try to get around a 1998 state ban on converting […]