Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones enrolled her daughter, Najya, in an under-resourced, mostly Black public school, to fight for equity for all Black children. But as Najya grew up she became angry with h...

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today the dismissal of more than fifty desegregation cases — from Waterbury, Connecticut, to Flagler County, Florida — ending matters that had ...

Public dollars fund Boston’s public schools. But many communities supplement with private donations — and those dollars aren't spread evenly across the city. Now, a Boston city councilor is calling fo...

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connection with the same incident. They have claimed the child's removal from their home is linked to their gender transition.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted officials at Massachusetts's second largest school district Tuesday afternoon to report the breach. The full extent of exactly what information was breached and where the information has been leaked remains under investigation.

All Springfield Public Schools staff have been directed to stay off of district network systems until further information is known. Students with district-issued the laptops should do the same.

More than a dozen schools have scaled back such programs, citing low enrollment, budget issues and state laws, a Washington Post review found.

A Springfield public school intends to partner with a for-profit education company to bring AI into a classroom this September. The teachers' union is threatening legal action if the pilot program isn...

In Massachusetts, Head Start serves more than 10,000 children who come from poor households, experience homelessness or live in foster care. Early childhood advocates say the proposed changes would co...

An AI-based private school will open two locations in Boston, including the space once used by one campus of the scandal-plagued Croft School in Jamaica Plain.

Summer camps are all about embracing the outdoors. But as climate change fuels dangerous heat and unhealthy air, the outdoors is becoming something camps must protect children from.

One teacher has left the Peabody school district while another remains on leave during an ongoing investigation into alleged comments posted on social media about Charlie Kirk.

Dr. Joan Brugge's research into breast cancer is one of hundreds of projects at Harvard caught up in an ongoing dispute with the Trump administration over the university’s handling of antisemitism on ...

Gov. Maura Healey convened the Statewide Graduation Council after voters last fall eliminated the use of the MCAS as a graduation requirement. The "vision of a graduate" released Wednesday is its firs...

Hundreds of students have left Chelsea public schools this year, as families exit a community — and a state — that’s become a prime target for immigration enforcement.

Telehealth vans parked outside Harvard and Northeastern are connecting college students with counseling support.

Hundreds gathered in front of the State House for a vigil to mourn Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old right-wing activist assassinated last week.

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WBUR's Emily Piper-Vallillo joins WBUR's Morning Edition to unpack a Boston judge's order to restore federal research funds.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs sided with the Ivy League school in ruling that the cuts amounted to illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands for changes to its governa...

The audit finds the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education failed to obtain adequate information regarding suspected cases of educator abuse or neglect of students.

New hurdles by the Trump administration are unnerving some international students hoping to make it back to campus.

Some Boston realtors who work in neighborhoods near large universities attribute the slowdown to new student visa processing protocols under the Trump administration.

Fourteen members of Congress threatened "rigorous Congressional oversight and inquiry" if Harvard University agrees to fines and policy changes demanded by the Trump administration.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

Students were pleased that Brown will not be paying the federal government, but took issue with the university adopting Trump’s policies on gender identity.

Brown University on Wednesday announced a deal with the Trump administration to regain access to federal research funding and end investigations into alleged discrimination.

The Department of Homeland Security altered Harvard in early June that it would inspect employee authorization records. Harvard told staff on Tuesday it will comply.

With more than $2 billion in federal research grants at stake, the two sides argued before a federal judge about the legality of the White House's cancellation of those funds to Harvard.

The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television.

The federal government sent a similar letter last month to the accrediting agency for Columbia University, accusing the school of violating civil rights laws.

The Republican leaders overcame objections from within their own party, marking a victory in their quest to fulfill President Trump's campaign promises.

Khalil will be released on bail while his case challenging his deportation orders plays out in the courts.

A full-time community college professor in Massachusetts, on average, makes about $68,000 a year. Many need to juggle a second job to pay the bills.

Trump's Truth Social comments came as a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction that would continue blocking the president's efforts to bar international students from attending Harvard.

A dozen universities are challenging the federal government's latest attempt to cut research funding for overhead expenses.

The Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office has taken 545 ICE detainees to the Hanscom airport since President Trump took office, from January through May, according to data obtained in a public records requ...

The federal judge in the case says she hopes to decide next week on whether to block indefinitely President Trump's June 4th order on Harvard's international students.

A federal judge in Boston ordered the National Institutes of Health to restore billions of federal research dollars terminated in recent months by the Trump administration.  Judge William Young said ...

The hearing on whether to indefinitely block President Trump's June 4th proclamation on Harvard's international students is scheduled in federal court in Boston.

The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with the next two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate...

For some women, the conditions have been particularly grim. In one case, a woman who had her period was denied access to menstrual products. When she needed to clean up, a guard allegedly gave her an ...

Harvard and the Trump administration have been locked in an escalating standoff. The stakes include billions of federal dollars and the fate of the school's international students.

The punishment inspired a small group of protesters to interrupt Friday morning's undergraduate commencement ceremony.