New documents show the Covington Independent Public Schools superintendent criticized a teacher, who was named Miss Kentucky 2022 and elected to the local school board, as he notified her her teaching contract would not be renewed.

Only about 93% of American kindergartners were vaccinated against the potentially fatal disease with the required two doses — the second year in a row that measles mumps and rubella (MMR) coverage fell below the 95% level needed to prevent the virus from spreading in the community.

"We're actually calling 2024-25 'the bloodletting,'" said Dr. Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. "Public education has not seen a right-sizing, fiscal cliff, whatever you want to call it, of this magnitude at any time in the past, including the last recession. I think it's going to be quite shocking."

In recent years, a few Alabama school districts – most of them predominantly white – have addressed incidents of white students making racist threats or using hate symbols.