More Seaman High School students are self-reporting drug and nicotine use when confronted with either voluntary admission or mandatory hair sample testing, administrators told the Seaman Board of ...

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February 12, 2026 - California's Assembly Bill 218 made it possible for childhood abuse victims to sue public agencies up to their 40th birthday or five years after discovering the abuse. For the past ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted Tuesday on a motion to end random metal detector searches, or "wanding" students, which opponents say promote discrimination and a ...

TODAY WE LEARNED NEW DETAILS ABOUT A POLICY CHANGE. VOLUSIA COUNTY SCHOOLS IS HOPING TO IMPLEMENT. INITIALLY, SOME PARENTS WERE OPPOSED TO HAVING RANDOM SEARCHES OF STUDENTS, BUT AFTER TODAY’S ...