When the next legislative session begins in January, lawmakers will begin looking at a bill that will grant schools in North Dakota an additional $400 million in educational funding.
The parents of a six-year-old New Town boy, backed by national atheist group American Humanist Association, are in a dispute with the boy's school concerning whether or not he should be pressured to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance in his classroom each morning.
Mandan Public Schools and St Mary's started classed this week. Bismarck Public Schools start after Labor Day. A new study out says students need more sleep and one solution is to start the school day after 8AM.
According to NBC News, The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says the answer to the problem is to start the school day after 8AM, best at 830 AM.
As we all know here in North Dakota, the oil boom has brought an influx of people to rural North Dakota; formerly small towns are now growing rapidly. The rapid flood of people is straining the local services, and schools are no exception. The public school system in Williston is getting more crowded, and their outdated facilities have not been able to catch up.
A teacher in Detroit is getting an education in how not to intervene. A teacher in the city's Pershing High School has been fired after she broke up a fight between two students with a broom.