The president of the Chicago school board resigned Thursday just a week after he was appointed because of social media posts deemed antisemitic, anti-women and lending credence to a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Parents angered after a high school junior taking a college-level psychology class is given a gender-based assignment.

Former Houston Independent School District Board of Education president, Rhonda Skillern-Jones, entered a guilty plea back in Oct. 2021 for conspiracy tied to bribes within the district. Now, she's traveling overseas at her leisure. Experts question if she's not being held accountable.

The board is responsible for dictating what Texas’ 5.5 million students are required to learn in the state’s public schools.

Voters in West Virginia will get the final say on a ballot question that would amend the state constitution to give the Republican-dominated legislature control over virtually every aspect of public schooling.

All 15 seats of the State Board of Education are up for grabs in November, and there were more than 50 candidates vying for their parties’ nominations.

This year’s elections will take place using newly redrawn political maps for the state’s congressional, House, Senate and Board of Education districts. Search your address to see how the new districts will affect your community.

As coronavirus outbreaks driven by the delta variant lead school districts around the U.S. to abruptly shut down or send large numbers of children into quarantine, some students are getting minimal schooling at home.

Houston Independent School District Board of Education has approved renaming Jack Yates Field after George Floyd.

Houston ISD teachers will soon receive a pay increase, according to HISD’s Board of Education.

Florida has become the latest state to ban “critical race theory” from its public schools.

Some employees of the Houston Independent School District will be seeing a one-time bump in their paychecks for the end of May.

FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks outside City Hall in San Francisco. Breed joined a chorus of officials who have denounced the tweets by the vice president of San Francisco's school board, Alison Collins, as racist and anti-Asian. The posts resurfaced last week amid a surge of violence and harassment against Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the country. They are the latest embarrassment for San Francisco’s school board, which has prided itself on putting racial equity at the top of its agenda. Under a plan recently negotiated with its labor unions, San Francisco plans to phase-in the reopening of elementary school classrooms in mid-April.

The DoubleTree Suites in Austin was the site of a reception where dozens of people celebrated outgoing Texas Board of Education members. At one point, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath made an appearance, said Todd Webster, a Hillco Partners lobbyist and former Texas education commissioner who attended. All Texas Education Agency staff members who stopped by wore masks and adhered to safety protocols while there, Anderson said. From left: Attorney Darrick Eugene and outgoing SBOE member Ken Mercer at the reception for Mercer and other departing State Board of Education members. She said she was not aware that attendees, other than board members, were not notified of the infections.

State law requires that schools teaching sex ed stress abstinence. Pu Ying Huang for The Texas TribuneFor the first time since 1997, Texas education officials will consider a new statewide sexual education policy, and it could include teaching middle schoolers about birth control options beyond abstinence. That proposed revision to the states health education standards is expected to draw crowds of people albeit virtually to Mondays State Board of Education meeting, where members will take public comment and discuss the changes. Advocates for comprehensive sexual education consider the proposed change a win and will rally for the board to approve it. Texas Values is also urging board members to exclude health standards teaching students about gender identity or sexual orientation.

Republican State Board of Education member David Bradley proposed the new course title in April, saying he found "hyphenated Americanism to be divisive.” On Tuesday, another board member, Democrat Ruben Cortez, called Bradley “the most mean-spirited” person on the board.

After years of debate, the State Board of Education voted preliminarily to create curriculum standards for a Mexican-American studies class. But thanks to the objections of one member, it'll now be called “Ethnic Studies: An Overview of Americans of Mexican Descent.”