Two new education bills have been introduced by Democrats in the Ohio House: One to ensure school meals for any students who request them, and another to increase base teacher salaries to $50,000 per year. The future of the proposed laws is uncertain with Republican supermajorities controlling both the Ohio House and Ohio Senate.

Cruz’s remarks fit into a larger trend of Republicans trashing schools and teachers.

The 2023-2024 state budget also provides free lunches to all students previously eligible for reduced-cost lunches.

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the funding increase into law in August, but Republicans in the Legislature are blocking bills required to authorize payments.

'Teachers have never been paid enough. And they're definitely not paid enough right now,' a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction spokesperson said.

Blue states aren’t immune from conservative culture wars. Here's what happened after three far-right candidates were elected to the Temecula school board.

New polling data shows the GOP’s education policies are out of touch with most Americans' views.

The U.S. Department of Education will not fund public schools that conduct firearms training, in compliance with a bipartisan gun safety law.

Meanwhile, Democratic governors and legislatures are expanding free and reduced-price school meal programs.

Republican state lawmakers are furious.

A mother and leading education advocate explains what work is being done in support of educators and parents of children returning to polarized and politicized schools.

The bipartisan Keep Kids Fed Act passed in the House by a vote of 376-42.

Polling results reflect a sharply politicized national debate that has consumed local school boards and, increasingly, state capitols.

Transgender sports bans have spread quickly through state legislatures.

Republicans are chipping away at LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the country.

One conservative political action committee focused on races in some of the wealthiest and least diverse parts of the country.

Some Republicans see the issue as a central part of their campaign strategy ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Donald Trump said he and the GOP nominee for Virginia governor ‘get along very well together.’

The Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee is leading the conservative crusade against public school officials.

Their latest mission is to pull books with LGBTQ themes from school libraries.

Several conservative members of Congress are calling for an investigation over false claims about Garland’s son-in-law.

Ongoing debates about school mask mandates miss a crucial component: student input.

As students return to the classroom amid a delta variant surge, one D.C. dad is manufacturing DIY air-filtration cubes — and wants others to do the same.

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is giving a ‘microschools’ company more per pupil than the state gives public schools.

Hundreds of students in Florida are already in quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19 in the classroom, just a few days into the new school year.

The right-wing Southeastern Legal Foundation is suing an Illinois school district over its anti-racist curriculum.

Republican lawmakers have been lying about President Joe Biden breaking promises for two months.

Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter is not actually a doctor, but he did own a drug store once.

Many of teachers unions are resisting in-person teaching in cities suffering enormous spikes in COVID cases.