President Donald Trump is once again changing course on federal attempts to chip away at racial disparities in student discipline, issuing an executive order this week that calls on the education ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 23, 2025, permitting teachers to use physical force to discipline students. Trump's order rolls back guidance from previous Democratic ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 23 that fundamentally changes how schools approach student discipline, potentially impacting millions of American children in K-12 classrooms ...

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 ...

Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman fellow in education at The Heritage Foundation and the author of “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” (Post Hill Press/Bombardier ...

Texas educators would regain flexibility over how they punish students who bring e-cigarettes onto campus under a bill that passed the Senate Thursday night. That change — along with giving ...

THE year 2025 was marred by school-related violence, many of which tragically ended for some public school teachers and ...

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 ...

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“Fix the schools. Our kids are not broken.” Seriously? Schools are not responsible for teaching your coddled children courtesy, kindness, respect, patience and appreciation. Those traits are learned ...

Trump's order rolls back guidance from previous Democratic presidents aimed at reducing racial disparities in school disciplinary actions such as suspensions and expulsions. The order says nothing ...