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(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

The controversial reshaping of a lauded academic program for young students will be front and center at Tuesday's meeting of the Los Angeles Board of Education.The program, called Primary Promise, was achieving extraordinary results in the estimation of district officials who presented a public progress report about 14 months ago.

A Toronto District School Board committee backed away from voting on a controversial cut to aquatics programming at 20 TDSB schools at a meeting Tuesday night.The TDSB's finance, budget and enrolment committee was expected to vote on asking the school board to reinstate six aquatics instructors to save swimming programs at eight elementary and 12 secondary public schools.

Former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders says he has decided to run for mayor of Toronto because the city needs a leader who will make the city safe again.In an opinion piece, Saunders said Toronto is at a "tipping point' and he has never seen "this level of fear" in the city.He said he is the person for the top job because he can set priorities, get the city working again, fight crime and its roots causes, restore public trust and bring back community safety.

With another possible education workers' strike in Ontario Monday, school boards are once again making plans for how to cope if there's no deal reached with the province.The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) gave a five-day strike notice on Wednesday after bargaining with the province broke down.

Several Ontario school boards said Friday they will move to remote learning next week indefinitely if an education workers' strike continues.Thousands of Canadian Union of Public Employees workers  including education assistants, custodians and librarians  walked off the job earlier in the day and the union's leaders have said the job action will continue "until our members decide otherwise," despite a law banning them from striking and the possibility of fines.

Lindsay Durtschi, a member of the P.T.A. in bright-red Escambia County, Fla., knows that coming out as a public face in the fight against book banning could make her life difficult, but she's made peace with it.I don't want my business to suffer, the optometrist and mother of elementary school-age girls told me.

January marks NYC Scholarship Month in New York City, an opportunity for more than 70,000 families of kindergartners and first graders to activate and view their new NYC Scholarship accounts, each of which is funded with a $100 seed investment.The accounts are provided through NYC Kids RISE, a nonprofit organization that manages the Save for College Program in partnership with the NYC Department of Education and the City of New York.

Esther Wojcicki isn't scared of ChatGPT.As a former teacher and the founder of one of the largest high school journalism programs in the country, she knows a thing or two about teaching the art of the written word, and instead of worrying that AI is going to turn students into cheaters, she thinks it can turn them into engaged writers.

Fifty-seven percent of the school administrators surveyed by VBE stated that at least one of the available positions at their school was currently vacant.Of the schools affected, a quarter said that six to ten percent of the positions were not filled.At a fifth of the schools, more than 15 percent of all positions were vacant.

BASTROP, Texas Voters in Bastrop will have their say on a $321.5 million bond for Bastrop ISD in May.On Tuesday, the Bastrop ISD board of directors unanimously voted to call the bond election for May 6.The bond proposal will have no tax rate increase.The ballot will have a single proposition to address district growth, Bastrop ISD said.

The 6-year-old boy who is accused of bringing a gun to school and shooting his teacher in Newport News, Va., this month has an acute disability and had been under an intensive care plan at school, his family said on Thursday in its first statement since the shooting on Jan. 6.The statement, released through the family's lawyer, said that the boy had previously been accompanied in school each day by his mother or father as part of the plan for his disability, and that the week of the shooting was the first time that a parent was not in class with him.

Most Illinois public schools that tested samples from sinks and fountains for lead as required by a 2017 state law found traces of the toxic metal lurking in children's drinking water, a Tribune investigation has found.But although the testing identified thousands of potentially problematic fixtures in schools, flaws in the law and weak state oversight have interfered with the goal of protecting children from the brain-damaging metal, the Tribune found.

After rescinding a controversial plan to close schools, Oakland Unified's newly seated school board is facing a new challenge: balancing a budget that will now cost at least $87 million more than anticipated.Earlier this month, the board voted to rescind the closures of five elementary schools, which because of budget constraints and declining student enrollment the previous board had slated to shutter later this year.

LOCKHART, Texas  Editor's note: The above video is related to bonds voted on by Austin residents.More than 61% of voters chose to approve the $71 million Lockhart ISD bond on Tuesday's ballot, according to a report from the Lockhart Post Register newspaper.The Voter Approved Tax Rate Election, or VATRE, failed by 19 votes.

The spokesperson for children and education with the Moderate party, Rasmus Lund-Nielsen, last week told broadcaster DR's radio programme Radio4 Morgen that he thinks elementary schools (folkeskoler) should forbid children from having their mobile phones with them during school hours.Telephones are simply something that are disruptive because we are used to using them for entertainment, gaming and social media.

More than 300 picketers demonstrated outside the headquarters of the Covina-Valley Unified School District on Wednesday morning as negotiators began last-ditch efforts to avoid a teachers strike scheduled for Thursday in the 13,400-student school system.A primary point of contention is proposed changes to health benefits.

Opinion of the Daily Post
In the four-way race for two seats on the Palo Alto school board, newcomer Shana Segal and incumbent Shounak Dharap are the best choices.Shana Segal is a breath of fresh air for the school board.She combines the experience of a teacher and a parent.Within a few minutes of meeting her, you realize that she would be a good fit.

A century ago, in 1922, the newly formed Campbell Union School District built a grammar school at the intersection of East Campbell Avenue and Winchester Boulevard.For 42 years, it served as the only grammar school in the district.A marker with a photograph of Campbell Union Grammar School commemorates its history at what is now the Heritage Village offices.

Weapons of Mass Dysfunction
In " The Case for Nuclear Disarmament " (July/August 2022), Paul Webster makes a compelling argument for Canada to do more on nuclear disarmament.However, for Canada to be seen as an honest actor, it needs to do more at forums it is part of-in particular, at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.