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Mike DeWine, the governor of the US state of Ohio has said he will sign a bill that would allow teachers and other adults in schools to be armed as long as they complete up to 24 hours of firearms training. The bill was passed this week by the Ohio …

Chicago public schools are set to continue in-person classes after the city’s teachers union backed a plan with the local school district to establish new pandemic safety measures, ending a standoff that lasted nearly a week. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) House of Delegates voted to resume face-to-face learning on …

The Ontario Divisional Court ordered the Ontario College of Teachers last week to “grant certification to teacher candidates who have not passed the Mathematics Proficiency Test,” citing “disparities in success rates of standardized testing based on race.” Noting that there is an “under-representation of racialized teachers in Ontario schools,” the …

The video shared on social media by a local reporter shows teachers taking part in a ‘Dash for Cash’ event, which includes the educators wearing helmets and scrambling for about $5,000 worth of single-dollar bills in a hockey rink.  Ten teachers were invited to battle for the cash at a …

Just one day after the emergency appeal was filed to the nation’s highest court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday denied the request to hear the case. Sotomayor, who handles emergency filings from New York, offered no comment on the decision. New York City’s vaccine mandate for public school employees went …

A recorded multi-member Zoom meeting from the 57th Annual Conference of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has gone viral. In an almost two-minute-long video circulating on Twitter, one of the call member’s windows showed sexual intercourse recorded by another conference participant.  Two people can be seen apparently having sex in …

The Italian government announced on Thursday that the so-called Green Pass will be mandatory for teachers, university students, and people traveling using long-distance public transport from September 1.  Similar to the controversial health certificate recently rolled out by France, Italy’s Green Pass is a digital or paper document that shows …

So far this year, 26 states in the US have introduced bills, passed bills into law or otherwise acted to restrict how racial issues are taught. Now, Fox News host and paleoconservative political commentator Tucker Carlson is calling for a “civilian review board in every town in America to oversee …

A series of measures aimed at promoting the concept was adopted at the NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly, taking place virtually this year from June 30 to July 3. First reported by Christopher Rufo, who has been at the centre of Republican-driven push to banish CRT from public schools, …

The attacker broke into a private kindergarten at around 2pm local time, injuring 16 children, two of them seriously, and two teachers, Chinese media reported, citing officials. Extremely graphic videos circulating on social media show distressed and bloodied children crying on a playground. Some are seen lying motionless. The suspect …