As Aidan Jeffers begins his graduate studies at the University of Toronto, he says he will have to work more hours and possibly rely on food banks due to drastic changes to student financial aid in Ontario – and the resulting debt he expects to rack up. Jeffers said he’s been working two jobs over […]

As superintendent of Desert Sands Unified in California’s Coachella Valley, Kelly May-Vollmer has a hard time naming a system that’s not somehow connected to the district’s broadband network. Parents can check a school bus tracking app to make sure their child arrived on time. Cafeteria staff don’t use cash registers; kids’ meal accounts are linked […]

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Artificial intelligence chatbots have become the bane of teachers everywhere, but to prepare for the new school year, a group of educators in Charleston, South Carolina, packed into a high school auditorium and talked about inviting AI into the classroom. The teachers and principals watched as an instructor prompted an […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom after state education officials, teachers and local residents raised concerns, including the maker’s ties to a company that produces hyper realistic sex bots. The Salamanca City […]

School security camera footage of a nearly 15-second hug between a teacher and one of her students was repeatedly screened and scrutinized at a historic hearing. “This isn’t a fleeting or a casual embrace. The two were comfortable with each other,” teacher commissioner lawyer Tristan Sandulak told a professional disciplinary panel on Tuesday. Sandulak made […]

Ontario’s colleges and universities ministry has disqualified students at five private career colleges from receiving student assistance loans this coming year, after raising concerns with some of the schools’ course enrolment practices. The move comes as career college students across the province are barred from accessing grants through the Ontario Student Assistance Program, part of […]

Aspen View Public Schools has made a new set of rules to handle artificial intelligence in its classrooms, even as local officials state that official curriculum changes remain the job of the provincial government. The school division recently adopted Administrative Procedure 630 to guide how students and staff interact with emerging technology like artificial intelligence, […]

Alberta’s government has imposed a raft of changes on K-12 schools it says are needed to keep “ideology” and “pornography” out of classrooms. The new rules also appear to have blocked child abuse prevention programming and dedicated 2SLGBTQ+ anti-discrmination educators. Beginning in the 2025 school year, schools were required to have any instruction materials related […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Education Department, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies. The Department of Justice will take on enforcement of civil rights in education, while the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee special education. The Trump administration made the announcement […]

When Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government drastically cut student assistance grants earlier this year, it cited “unsustainable” costs, but new figures show nearly all of the recent growth was among career college students. Data obtained by The Canadian Press through a freedom-of-information request shows that between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years, the province spent […]

Dozens of Alberta school divisions have pulled more than 170 books from library shelves this year to comply with a provincial order, including poetry collections, award-winning graphic novels, a sex education comic book and the film and graphic novel adaptations of George Orwell’s 1984. Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides directed schools to remove library […]

A new course has been preparing Nakusp Secondary School (NSS) students for post-grad life with skills and certifications in the Emergency Services field. Teachers Daniel Abraham and Dorian Boswell’s goals and vision for the course was to introduce students to hands-on training; encourage volunteerism; and embrace the unique educational opportunities of the Arrow Lakes region. […]