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NEW: Gov. Greg Abbott spent years trying to make school vouchers a reality in Texas, even pushing to unseat rural Republicans who stood in the way. Some lawmakers believe the effort contributed to his party's historic demise in the midterms. #News #Texas #TX #Education #Congress #TXPol #USPolitics #Schools #Teaching #Parenting

Schools increasingly affected by poor air quality as wildfire smoke becomes more common https://phys.org/news/2026-10-schools-affected-poor-air-quality.html #school #schools #environment #AirQuality #AirPollution #wildfire #wildfires

#Strikes in #Palestine: Amid an economic crisis caused by Israeli policies and Palestinian Authority corruption, teachers are bringing #schools and streets to a standstill until their demands are met: https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-teachers-strike-pa-repression/ #WestBank #Gaza #occupation #education #security

Wildfire smoke is invading America’s schools, and staying indoors may not be enough https://www.earth.com/environment/wildfire-smoke-is-invading-americas-schools-and-staying-indoors-may-not-be-enough/ #America #environment #wildfire #wildfires #schools #health #PublicHealth

I soon replaced them with inexpensive, multicoloured plastic bins which also didn't last long. The boys kept stacking them like stairs. 😆 Eventually - and I can't recommend this enough to #parents, #schools & #daycares.... plastic restaurant bus-boxes are perfectly sized for toys, and durable as heck. Not a single one has taken damage in over 6 years! #parenting

At least €16 BILLION: the estimated cost of France’s 2026 heatwaves and wildfires, according to a parliamentary report. People are hurting. They need real funding to stay safe: cooler homes and schools, early-warning systems, firefighters and healthcare workers. TAX obscene oil and gas profits. Make polluters pay. #makepolluterspay #heatwave #heat #publichealth #health #climatechange #climatecrisis #climate #schools #france #taxoilprofits #livesbeforeprofits #climateadaptation

@_elena@mastodon.social my son's school is asking for permission to put photographs of him on social media and I've refused. It got me thinking about how suitable Mastodon would be for #schools. Do you know of any examples? Spoken to anyone who's looked into this?

‘They accepted the money but didn’t take care of my child’: what Luna Wong’s death reveals about the treatment of international students in the UK https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/26/luna-wong-hong-kong-death-reveals-treatment-international-students-uk #Internationalstudents #Health&wellbeing #Socialexclusion #Privateschools #Mentalhealth #Lifeandstyle #Depression #Education #Students #Society #Schools #Health

No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards By Anna North Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/florida-activists-rightwing-school-boards #Florida #USeducation #USnews #USmidtermelections2026 #USpolitics #USbookbans #Schools #Activism #TheGuardian #AnnaNorth

“The rise in authoritarian policing we’ve seen in recent years—often aided by surveillance equipment and other tools and techniques from war zones—has made its way into K-12 schools. Shock gloves, evocative of dystopian fiction, are a vivid, tangible symbol of this growth in violence…” Catherine Lutz & I for The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/militarization-schools-surveillance-police/ #Education #Schools

Sometimes there *is* a simple answer: Born in Bradford discovered that a third of pupils diagnosed with poor eyesight in Bradford didn't get to the opticians; the resulting new policy of providing glasses to those pupils through their schools has halved (in less than a decade) the literacy gap in Bradford schools, suggesting sometimes its just not being to see the page that is the problem. This looks like it would be an easy national literacy win! #schools #literacy #politics h/t Observer

Burnham bounce: Labour overtakes Reform in polls – The Latest https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/jul/28/burnham-bounce-labour-overtakes-reform-in-polls-the-latest #Politics #UkNews #AndyBurnham #EducationPolicy #ReformUk #Labour #Schools #SocialCare #Education

The instrumentalism of education continues, with Andy Burnham telling schools to (re)shape teaching to meet local business needs. No-one suggests students' should not leave school educated for work, but skewing the focus to what specific local business want is a recipe for reducing education to time-limited 'skills' & reaching real education! Education should be joyful & humanistic, employability is a side-effect; its another case of the tail wagging the dog! #schools

Featured story: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young #children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods #schools with even more police. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-school-arrests-crisis-kids-as-young-as-10/#education #politics #USpol #law #Texas #police

There is a serious time pressure to end the #GazaGenocide. If we do not stop the #genocide quickly with #international pressure, #Gaza will be fully destroyed. We cannot draw it out until #Israel seizes every inch of#land, kills or expels every person, or the #resistance runs out of #munitions. All of the #hospitals and #schools are already gone, and there is a #hunger #crisis from the #seige on #food. Remember this, and take the urgency seriously. #FreePalestine #FromRiverToSea

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https://www.alojapan.com/1510936/japan-to-help-universities-pool-investments-as-smaller-schools-struggle/ Japan to help universities pool investments as smaller schools struggle #help #investments #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #pool #schools #smaller #STRUGGLE #universities Education Bigger endowments seen as cushion against enrollment decline and inflation Japanese universities are under pressure from rising costs, even as student numbers are set to shrink. (Nikkei montage) TOKYO — Japan’s government is poised to allow national

Japan to help universities pool investments as smaller schools struggle Education Bigger endowments seen as cushion against enrollment decline and inflation Japanese universities are under pressure from rising costs, even as student numbers are set to shrink. (Nikkei monta… #Japan #JP #JapanNews #help #investments #Japanese #Japanesenews #news #pool #schools #smaller #STRUGGLE #universities

‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jul/11/uk-pupils-struggle-extreme-heat-schools-classrooms #Schools #ExtremeHeat #UkWeather #UkNews #Environment #Education #ClimateCrisis #SchoolFunding

Faith school takeovers are not the answer to falling pupil numbers Merging community schools with #FaithSchools is unfair to parents and children. Read more in the latest blog by #Humanists UK #Education Campaigns Manager Lewis Young. https://humanists.uk/2026/07/08/faith-school-takeovers-are-not-the-answer-to-falling-pupil-numbers/ #schools