Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology.”.

Twelve new classrooms will be added to Christian Heritage Academy, which will allow over 500 students to attend class by next school year.

Thanks to the success of the “Load the Bus” event, free school supplies were available for dozens of families who may not have been able to buy them otherwise.

The Trump administration has proposed changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that could exclude teachers, social workers and nurses if their employers engage in activities deemed illegal.

President Donald Trump is attempting to reshape college admissions according to his definition of merit, with an emphasis on test scores and a blind eye toward diversity.

A federal judge has struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and universities.

A federal judge has struck down key parts of a Florida law that allowed parents to remove books they found objectionable from public school libraries.

New York’s legal marijuana agency allowed dozens of cannabis dispensaries to open too close to schools after regulators misread state law and are now pushing for a legislative fix to prevent the pot shops from having to relocate.

Florida shifted to virtual learning for youth in juvenile detention — and parents and students say it's been a disaster.

Los Angeles area students are returning to class under a cloud of apprehension after a summer of immigration raids and amid worries that schools could become targets in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions in National Science Foundation grants to UCLA.

Harvard University and the Trump administration are getting close to an agreement that would require the Ivy League university to pay $500 million to regain access to federal funding and to end investigations, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Experts say it’s worth easing kids back into a regular sleep routine with the start of a new school year.

Anguished pleas from parents.

The school division planned to install a dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS) to improve airflow and overall air quality in the school, but that won’t be ready for a few more weeks, leaving some parents concerned.

Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao’s status as a powerhouse couple was on display as they attended a ceremony in Kentucky for the archives that will catalogue their careers.

School district officials have released text messages, personnel files and student records of the shooter from the 2022 attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers.

Under the policy, parents could face fines or jail time if their child misses too much school.

The Virginia Board of Education has approved the establishment of the first new Governor’s School in the Commonwealth since 2009.

If you still need to get your kid vaccinated or get them their physicals for school, you can do so for free or low cost on Tuesday at the Community Empowerment Center in Roanoke.

New AI-powered cameras give Salem High School a sharp eye for spotting weapons before danger strikes.

Police say a suspected shooter and a police officer are dead after law enforcement responded to an active shooter near the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University.

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars of grants that are awarded by federal agencies.

A White House official says the Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles.

An increase in the tax on university endowments is creating financial challenges for the wealthiest U.S. colleges.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum requiring colleges to prove they do not consider race in admissions.

Surveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices.

Hundreds of Harvard researchers have fallen victim to the freeze on funding by the Trump administration.

A federal judge in Oregon has issued an injunction temporarily stopping the mass cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants to humanities councils around the country.

Tens of thousands of U.S. college students without legal residency are losing access to in-state tuition as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration.

The Trump administration has suspended $584 million in federal grants for the University of California, Los Angeles.

School districts across Virginia have been making tweaks to their cell phone policies to align with Governor Glenn Youngkin's executive order.

Tudor Lakatos is fighting discrimination against Romania’s Roma minority through the music of Elvis Presley.

School divisions have spent the past few months making safety upgrades. Those efforts are getting a boost from millions of dollars in state grants.

America’s rural high school students are less likely to go to college than their urban and suburban peers.

The Gaudreau Family 5K Walk/Run has raised more than $500,000 to build an accessible playground at Archbishop Damiano School in southern New Jersey.

Former Nike CEO John Donahoe has been hired as Stanford's athletic director.

A teacher who authorities say admitted to fatally stabbing two hikers he didn’t know in an Arkansas state park has bounced between four school districts in three states.

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high.

Several elite U.S. colleges have made deals with President Donald Trump’s administration, offering concessions to his political agenda and financial payments to restore federal money that had been withheld.

The new school year is just around the corner. If your kids have been staying up late this summer, now is a good time to get their sleep schedules back on track.

Brown University has reached a deal with the federal government to regain access to federal research funding and end investigations into alleged discrimination.

The Secretary of the Army has directed the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to review its hiring practices and rescind the appointment of a newly announced hire who led the nation's cybersecurity agency under President Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump's administration is freezing $108 million in research funding to Duke University as the federal government accuses it of racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action.

West Virginia is banning seven artificial dyes from school meals before the start of class.

The Trump administration is pressing for a deal with Harvard University that would require the Ivy League school pay far more than the $200 million fine agreed to by Columbia University, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Summer vacation is winding down, and parents across the region are getting their kids ready for the new year.

Dozens of dairy cattle are on the move at Michigan State University.

Leaders of the county where 19 students and two teachers were killed in the 2022 shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, have voted to release records related to the massacre.

Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who gained a popular following in the 1950s and ’60s lampooning marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, and then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died at 97.

Congress is considering proposals from President Donald Trump to slash funding for disability rights centers in each state, and advocates worry that they could lose more than 60% their federal dollars.

The White House is pursuing heavy fines from Harvard and other universities as part of potential settlements to end investigations into campus antisemitism, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.

A new study at the University of Virginia is testing to see if a common recreational drug can help people cope with the loss of a loved one.

The Trump administration is investigating the Oregon Department of Education after receiving a complaint from a conservative non-profit group alleging the state was violating civil rights law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams.

The Trump administration is releasing billions of dollars in grants to schools for adult literacy, English language instruction and other programs, the Education Department said Friday.

A 14-year-old boy has been killed and a 19-year-old has been wounded after in overnight shooting at a University of New Mexico dormitory.

Academics around the country are raising alarm about growing efforts to define antisemitism on terms pushed by the Trump administration.

A West Virginia judge has allowed children from three families to attend school without required vaccinations.

President Trump has signed an executive order directing federal authorities to clarify whether college athletes can be considered employees of their schools.

A deal between Columbia University and the Trump administration calls for the Ivy League school to pay more than $220 million to resolve multiple federal investigations into alleged violations of federal antidiscrimination laws.

The Trump administration’s milestone settlement with Columbia promises to bring stability to a university embroiled in scrutiny.

As higher education costs have grown to heights many U.S. residents find unattainable or illogical, some adults are looking to their employers for help.

For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves.

Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government.

The State Department says it's investigating whether Harvard University will remain part of a government program that allows foreign nationals to take part in cultural and education exchange programs.

A subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight has voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Teenagers are increasingly turning to AI for advice, emotional support and decision-making, according to a new study.

Far beyond Harvard University and its standoff with the Trump administration, Republican officials in several states have been pushing for changes at public universities.

Columbia University has announced disciplinary actions against students involved in protests against the war in Gaza.

Roanoke City Public Schools is waiting for $2 million in federal grants, including for programs like teacher development and retention, English language learners, academic enrichment and adult education.

Amid a federal overhaul of student loan plans, many borrowers have been left wondering what it means for their hopes of loan forgiveness.

President Donald Trump has deflected questions over the Justice Department’s decision to interview Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the financier sexually abuse underage girls and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence.

A coalition of 21 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration’s restrictions on social services for immigrants in the country illegally, including the federal preschool program Head Start, health clinics and adult education.

The third annual Water Tower Showdown is set to be held in Roanoke on Saturday, July 26!

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.

Harvard University has appeared in federal court, challenging $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Mountain Gateway Community College announced it will be offering a two-day course on Public Safety Drone Operations on July 21 and 22.

A lawyer for the maker of the video game Call of Duty is arguing that a judge should dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting.

The Education Department plans to release previously withheld grant money for after-school programs.

Data from the Education Department shows the pace at which it resolves civil rights complaints has slowed as the Trump administration dismantles the agency.

An American extradited from France to face charges that he sexually assaulted a fellow Pennsylvania college student in 2013 has pleaded guilty.

Virginia hasn’t joined a lawsuit filed by other states but that doesn’t mean educators here aren’t closely watching the situation.

House Republicans on Tuesday grilled the leaders of Georgetown University, the City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley, in the latest hearing on antisemitism in higher education, accusing the schools of failing to respond adequately to allegations of bias or discrimination.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is expected to move quickly now that the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue unwinding her department.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track and go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.

A recent AP-NORC Teen Poll poll shows most U.S. teenagers prioritize graduating from college, with 70% of girls and 54% of boys considering it important.

More than 20 states have sued President Donald Trump’s administration over billions of dollars in frozen funding for after-school care, summer programs and more.

More than $6 billion in federal education funding remains on hold by the Trump administration and could impact programs in Southwest Virginia.

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

The Trump administration says it will restrict immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program.

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Human Services over its newly updated affirmative action hiring policy.

The Trump administration on Thursday opened a civil rights investigation into the hiring practices at George Mason University, expanding a national campaign against diversity policies to Virginia’s largest public university.

The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools.

A report is recommending Australian universities lose government funding unless they address attacks on Jewish students and for potential immigrants to be screened for political affiliations.

Dartmouth College and the University of Notre Dame say they're ending their participation in a Chinese scholarship program.

The impact of the massive spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law on Independence Day is expected to filter down to infants and toddlers — a segment of the population that's particularly vulnerable to cuts to the federal social safety net.

The Trump administration has withheld billions of dollars nationwide in grants that were supposed to have been given out on July 1. The U.S. Department of Education said it reviewing the programs to ensure they align with the administration’s priorities.

Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione has announced that the upcoming academic year will be his last in charge of the department, with an official retirement planned for June 2028.

Radford City Public Schools is looking to make summer a whole lot cooler with its “Books for Bobcats” summer initiative.

President Donald Trump is revamping the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, sparking concerns it could become a tool for political retribution.