The president of the Chicago school board resigned Thursday just a week after he was appointed because of social media posts deemed antisemitic, anti-women and lending credence to a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Chronic absenteeism was top of mind for the Virginia Board of Education while discussing ways to measure schools' success Wednesday.

The Virginia Department of Education says the state has about 3,500 open teaching positions.

Thousands of teaching licenses are delayed amid a record-high processing backlog.

The Virginia Board of Education approved a revised History and Social Science Standards of Learning which will be implemented in 2025.

Voters in West Virginia will get the final say on a ballot question that would amend the state constitution to give the Republican-dominated legislature control over virtually every aspect of public schooling.

Former Salem City Schools Superintendent Dr. Alan Seibert said he is looking forward to representing the interests of our region.

As coronavirus outbreaks driven by the delta variant lead school districts around the U.S. to abruptly shut down or send large numbers of children into quarantine, some students are getting minimal schooling at home.

Florida has become the latest state to ban “critical race theory” from its public schools.

FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks outside City Hall in San Francisco. Breed joined a chorus of officials who have denounced the tweets by the vice president of San Francisco's school board, Alison Collins, as racist and anti-Asian. The posts resurfaced last week amid a surge of violence and harassment against Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the country. They are the latest embarrassment for San Francisco’s school board, which has prided itself on putting racial equity at the top of its agenda. Under a plan recently negotiated with its labor unions, San Francisco plans to phase-in the reopening of elementary school classrooms in mid-April.

ROANOKE, Va. - The Virginia Department of Education released SOL results Tuesday and its changes to the math assessment showed a sizable improvement statewide. The new math SOL test reflects revisions to the state mathematics standards approved by the state Board of Education in 2016. The introduction of the new tests marked the end of the three-year transition to the revised standards. The math SOL is the only test that saw an increase statewide with 82% of students passing, compared to 77% passing the previous version in 2017-18 school year. As for the other four assessments, in the 2018-19 school year:78% passed reading tests, compared with 79% during the 2017-2018 school year76% passed in English writing, compared with 78% from the previous year81% passed in science, which was unchanged from the previous year80% of students tested in history/social science passed, compared with 84% in the previousBelow you'll see a break down of four years of both statewide and district-by-district data:Click here if you can't see the data belowCopyright 2019 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.