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Homeschooling families could be forced to send children to kindergarten or teach kindergarten at home if a movement that is spreading across the country succeeds. As of now only 15 states require kindergarten, but a growing number of officials in ...

Parents in one Georgia county can be arrested and tossed in jail for a month if their children miss too much school – even if the child is sick. Mother and substitute teacher Julie Giles was arrested because she did ...

President Obama’s education secretary is stirring controversy by suggesting the U.S. government should launch boarding schools for kids – children the government would have 24 hours a day. Education Secretary Arne Duncan made the comments Tuesday in Arlington, Va., at ...

In the last few years, education has been under fire… and for good reasons. It seems like every time you turn around, you hear about schools with low ratings, states facing Common Core controversies, and even students walking out on ...

A Second Amendment workbook at an Illinois public school has parents outraged. The bizarre definition in the workbook of the right to bear arms definitely does not mirror the one written by our Founding Fathers: This amendment states that people ...

A civic-minded teen spent 13 days in jail and is facing a felony charge because he accidentally had a pocketknife in his car. The horrific ordeal for Jordan Wiser began last December, when Ashtabula County Technical and Career Campus officials ...

A Tennessee dad was arrested for disorderly conduct when simply attempting to pick up his children early from school. The father, Jim Howe, did not bring a weapon on the South Cumberland Elementary School campus, did not threaten anyone, and ...

In an incident that is similar to a recent American episode, a Canadian mother was fined $10 because the fruit and vegetable-heavy homemade lunches she made for her children didn’t meet the province’s nutritional requirements. To make matters worse for ...

Disasters and crisis situations, by nature, have a habit of occurring at the most inconvenient times. For parents, this means that the kids may very well be at school or elsewhere when the world turns upside down. For those of ...

This year’s school supply list has been posted at the local Walmart. Among the items on the list for third grade boys is a hip-pouch. Seems odd, but then not much on the list is really needed. Who would have ...