Hundreds of high school students from across the states traded millions in faux stocks as part of the Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge at Nebraska Innovation Campus on Tuesday.
The plan would require an infusion of state dollars, amounting to a 68% boost in state support for K-12 education.
Maj. Stephen Watt recently returned home after a tour in Baghdad. But one more top-secret mission was in store: a surprise reunion with his children at Cathedral of the Risen Christ Catholic School on Thursday.
The teachers' decisions to leave come at a time when school districts across the state and nation are struggling to find enough staff to do everything from teach social studies to serve sloppy Joes.
The ACLU accused the Cody-Kilgore school district of racial discrimination, saying it had an unwritten head-lice policy that applied only to Native students.
About eight of 17 students said they knew what curling was before the class started, but all of them quickly got the hang of it in anticipation of Thursday’s field trip.
There are almost 4,000 students in Nebraska with ties to the military, including Kayla Jones, a fifth-grader at Lincoln's North America Martyrs, which honored service members at its Veterans Day ceremony.
OPS has some full-time bilingual liaisons, but students and their families speak more than 100 different languages. The district has contracted about 20 students to help at parent-teacher conferences for $18 an hour.
“We can’t deny that there’s a problem. Let’s just figure out what the themes are, figure out what we want to change and get it changed,” one board member said.
A committee of members of the Nebraska State Board of Education will examine a host of issues, from how writing and advisory teams are selected to how proposed standards are rolled out to the public.
The Nebraska Association of School Boards and Gov. Pete Ricketts said threats and acts of violence against school officials should be dealt with by local law enforcement, not the federal government.
Nibras Basitkey was among the women whose stories were featured Monday on "Today" as part of the show's coverage on International Day of the Girl -- a yearly observance that recognizes girls' rights to education and the challenges they face.
“Our staff are just burning the candle at both ends and taking care of each other. We would like to honor the need for mental health for staff and students so we were asking for the 22nd and 23rd” of November off.
Stephen Roszel was preparing for his “dream job” teaching Advanced Placement government and social studies when the school district adopted a mask mandate. He declined to wear one on principle.
After the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported first to the state and then in a news story that teacher Social Security numbers were at risk of ex…
Lee Perez said that as he works to teach his students a new language, he also celebrates their backgrounds and cultures in the classroom.
After relentless opposition, the state board of education halted the standards' development Sept. 3. The only consensus is that the process failed to produce standards acceptable to all Nebraskans.
A Texas teacher resigned after the father of a Black student complained that his son was asked to stand on a desk to illustrate a human auction during a lesson about the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
"It's just amazing," said Levi Wright, a fourth-generation descendant of Chief Standing Bear. "To be here and for this honor — a school — is awesome."
Officials celebrated the groundbreaking at what will be Lincoln's eighth public high school.
Gov. Pete Ricketts will appoint Patricia Timm's replacement if the Nebraska school board approves her resignation Friday.
On June 18, Paula Peterson made her first post showing a 31-inch stalk that had been spray-painted bright orange so she won’t lose it. Now it's getting close to harvest time.
Three Nebraska school groups are warning parents and students about a new social media challenge in October known as "slap a teacher."
“Our staff and students need this opportunity to mentally and physically reset," she said.
The school district made quarantining optional for students and staff exposed to a person who tested positive for COVID-19. The nurse said she was asked to ignore when students and staff didn’t wear masks on buses, a federal law.