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Iowa House proposes 3% education spending increase, trucking liability proposal, Siouxland governors condemn WOTUS rules and more

The Indiana State Teachers Association charges Indiana teachers $1,000 per year to lobby for progressive political goals.

The Republican governor never takes issue with the Hillsdale president's remarks, nor does he defend the state's 80,000 public school teachers or the state's teacher training programs.

School management had instructed lecturers to merge novice with diploma students

Polk County Schools Director James Jones was "left in the dark completely" last week when the school district in Southeast Tennessee lost $36,000 in federal funds without an explanation from the state.

Tennessee school districts seeks answers from the Tennessee Department of Education after Title I funds were cut without explanation.

(RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN) COMMENTARY: Seemingly every year across the state “collaborative conferencing” gets debated by stakeholders and policymakers.  In Rutherford County schools, this issue is now being debated by educators. The initial training in the principles and techniques of interest-based collaborative problem-solving used in collaborative conferencing was initially to be developed by the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents (TOSS) in conjunction...

Study finds 64% of school principals encounter cases of child sexual abuse in their schools with 65% fulfilling legal duties to report, but many say they have had less than 7 hours of training

If ever a motto expressed pride in state autonomy, it's Iowa's: "Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain." That dedication to local control undergirds the growing opposition to Common Core — the latest effort to centralize education through national standards and tests that will define what is taught in every public school classroom in the Hawkeye State.

Minority union UPE orders directives, saying deal with rival union is unconstitutional