NEW YORK — Fewer high school students are vaping this year, the government reported Thursday. In a survey, 10% of high school students said they had used electronic cigarettes in the previous month, down from 14% last year. “It’s encouraging to see this substantial decrease in e-cigarette use among high schoolers within the past year, which is a win for …
Angel Lozano, center, a former student at East Los Angeles College, meets with screenwriters at Cerveceria Del Pueblo in Pasadena. Now they “no longer want something that looks like the education they received before.” A survey of former California community college students found that one third haven’t re-enrolled because they prioritized work, and 22% prioritized taking care of family or …
On Tuesday, at a meeting of the school board for Granbury, Texas just southwest of Fort Worth, students from the high school lined up to speak out against a controversial "book review" policy proposed by right-wing activists that would effectively let members of the board ban books in school even before a review. "GISD Communications Director Jeff Meador stated: 'School …
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. In Los Angeles, the teacher’s union approved a plan to get elementary school kids back by mid-April and middle and high school kids by the end of April. A RAND study on districts around the country released last December found 20% of school districts “have already adopted, plan to …
