WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The rift between Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and the state’s teachers unions deepened Thursday as the Republican bristled at calls to take additional steps to...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The candidates for Wisconsin superintendent of schools clashed Thursday over reopening schools for in-person teaching, Act 10 and teacher unions and the private school voucher...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana teachers would have to renew requests every year for automatic paycheck deduction of union dues under a bill that’s been approved by the state Senate.

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — The school board in Virginia's largest county has approved a return-to-school plan that phases in limited in-person learning in all grades over the next six...

Many Connecticut school districts preparing for in-person classes are unable to comply with social distancing recommendations and unwilling to allow teachers with compromised immune systems to...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Policies that guide pension investments for New Mexico teachers and other educational retirees would have to change if the Educational Retirement Board wants to divest in...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's teacher union is calling on school officials to delay the beginning of in-class instruction until the state's COVID-19 positivity rate drops.

BOSTON (AP) — The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 continued to fall to about a quarter of those hospitalized in April, state health officials reported Thursday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio teachers union working with a nonprofit school supplier will donate more than $50,000 for books and supplies for classrooms across the state.

GATINEAU, Quebec (AP) — A union federation representing 45,000 teachers in Quebec is suing the Canadian province over its ban on the wearing of religious symbols by many public...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Little Rock teachers union announces one-day strike over state's decision to strip collective bargaining power.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools, mayor announce classes canceled Thursday ahead of expected teachers strike.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The former president of the Indianapolis Education Association has entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors admitting to embezzling more than $100,000 from the...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's top school board refused Tuesday to revise the $3.8 billion public school formula it sent to lawmakers, resisting House Republicans' push to strip a $39 million...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Spending on elementary and secondary education will be the focus of the next legislative budget hearing in Albany.

Members of the Senate and Assembly are scheduled to gather Wednesday for the hearing, which will feature remarks from state education officials as well as from teacher unions and education advocacy organizations. Superintendents from Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Yonkers and Utica are also expected to submit testimony.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia State Schools Superintendent Steve Paine says he supports a possible one-time pay incentive for teachers to improve their math education and teaching skills.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is turning to a longtime Republican politician who has openly clashed with the state's teacher union to be the state's next education commissioner.

The State Board of Education, in a unanimous vote Monday, chose former House Speaker Richard Corcoran to take over the job in February. Corcoran, an attorney, just concluded a two-year term as House speaker and has ties to both former Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As he heads into a re-election campaign year, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday that a teacher pay raise will be his "number one priority" in next year's legislative session.

The Democratic governor, elected with the support of teacher unions, said he'll seek a $1,000 across-the-board pay raise for teachers in the 2019 session that begins in April. He said he'll also push for a $500 raise for school support employees, such as cafeteria workers and classroom aides.

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Judges in Washington state ruled against teacher unions for striking, though no penalties were imposed.

School district leaders in Tumwater in Thurston County and Longview in Cowlitz County both filed injunctions after their respective teacher unions went on strike over pay raises.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's largest teacher's union is suing to try to block implementation of a new law that it says unfairly targets education labor organizations.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House has sent the governor a measure raising public school teacher salaries to a minimum of $40,000 a year.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Some educators are at odds over two Oklahoma Education Association leaders' actions during the statewide teacher walkout and have conflicting statements regarding the impeachment effort against those executives.