School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, The New York Times investigation shows.

The American Federation of Teachers recommended “no screens” at all for those in second grade or younger, and no A.I. chatbots for students in elementary school.

Declining enrollment has hit many of the nation’s largest urban school districts, including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, a New York Times analysis found. But smaller and suburban districts are shrinking at a similar rate.

From Salt Lake City to New York City, parents are demanding more sway over the digital tools that schools give children.

In “A Plan to Fund High School Newspapers Seeks to Revive Student Journalism,” Claire Fahy writes about efforts to expand journalism opportunities in New York City public schools.

“We have pushed high school students into maximizing every part of their days and nights,” Tim Donahue, a high school English teacher, writes in the guest essay “High Schoolers Need to Do Less So That They Can Do Better.” “We need to let them slow down.”

Students across New York City are waiting up to an hour for school buses as a driver shortage and conflict over a contract hamstring the city’s ability to find a solution.

Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back.