A group of about a dozen demonstrators held a protest in favor of mandatory masking outside the New York Department of Education building on Wednesday. The crowd sang a pro-mask nursery rhyme in hopes that New York Mayor Eric Adams would re-up the city’s school mask mandate.
Vaccine passport and masking requirements in New York City will be lifted on Monday, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday, including the city's school mask mandate and vaccination requirements for restaurants, entertainment venues, and other public indoor spaces.
Florida lawmakers unanimously approved a bill on Feb. 23 that would require high school students to take and pass a financial literacy course before graduating.
Newly uncovered federal grant documents show that the U.S. Department of Education awarded roughly $2.5 million in taxpayer dollars to a Florida-based education program that trains future teachers and other professionals in, among other things, critical race theory.
New York Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that 1,430 public-sector workers in the city were fired for failing to meet a Feb. 11 deadline to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
On Jan. 13, the state of California, along with its Board of Education and Department of Education, settled a lawsuit with parents over a controversial ethnic studies program that required school children to pray to Aztec gods.
The 'ESSER III Fund' gives $15,079,696,097 to California schools that commit to "universal and correct wearing of masks," "diagnostic and screening testing," and "efforts to provide vaccinations to school communities."
