Officials with the Cobb County School District will continue a two-day termination hearing Friday to determine if a fifth grade teacher violated Georgia’s recently passed divisive concepts law. 

Students in a Florida school district will be reading only excerpts from William Shakespeare's plays for class rather than the full texts under redesigned curriculum guides.

After saying the state had effectively banned the class because of content on sexual orientation and gender identity, the College Board said it hoped teachers would be able to teach the full course.

Georgia is getting $2 million in federal funding to address lead in drinking water consumed by children.

Educators in Bibb County got a professional jolt during the system's convocation ceremony Tuesday, a mashup of a pep rally and a church style call to action. 

Atlanta Public Schools will partner with The Lion Electric Company to transition its bus fleet from diesel to electric.

Democrats savored a rare win under the Gold Dome in March when, with the help of a handful of Republicans, they fended off a plan to expand Georgia’s school voucher program. But Democratic Atlanta state Rep. Mesha Mainor has not been celebrating.

In one case, references to the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement were removed. The list of rejected materials included books on U.S. history, the Holocaust and psychology.

Savannah-Chatham is searching for a new person to manage state’s 10th largest school district.

More than one-fifth of Georgia’s public high school graduates earned passing scores on at least one Advanced Placement examination, putting the state in 15th place nationally, according to new data out this week.  

Georgia House Democrats cheered a rare win Wednesday night when efforts to expand Georgia’s school voucher program failed, dooming the project for 2023.

Georgia students and families could see big changes to their public schools this year as lawmakers continue work on numerous education bills.

A new school voucher bill passed out of a Senate committee Tuesday and could be headed for a full Senate vote.

The 1985 Quality Basic Education Act guides the state in distributing nearly $11 billion to its 1.6 million public school students, but calls for change have been growing louder in recent years. Since its inception, the state’s population has roughly doubled, and costs for expenses like transportation, technology and counselors have radically changed in the intervening decades.

Food banks and nonprofits say inflation has hurt fundraising and made it hard to handle a surge in demand. One CEO says the need is close to the height of the pandemic.