The Department of Justice and a South Carolina sheriff's department reach an agreement on police involvement in student discipline. Meanwhile the ACLU files a lawsuit against the state's vaguely worded statutes blamed for filling the school to prison pipeline.

Dozens of Black pastors in Florida are urging the state NAACP to drop a lawsuit that seeks to end a school voucher program. This is a rare example of disharmony.

Secretary of Education John King called for greater diversity at the PTA annual convention. He said diversity offers benefits all the way around.

The University of Alabama announced a new plan to address racism among its sororities and fraternities. This comes after a campus newspaper exposed systemic racism in the membership selection process.

The NY Post accuses a private school of teaching White students that they're born racists. This method of teaching diversity is supposedly a trend among some elite schools.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson is resigning after five years of piloting the troubled school system. She's widely praised for her reforms, though detractors point out some failures.

All the graduates of a Bronx high school are going to college. The principal credits full community involvement.

Ivory Toldson is leaving his post as executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs. Deputy Undersecretary of Education Kim Hunter Reed will serve as acting executive director.

Secretary of Education John King is urging charter schools to take a different approach to school discipline. Research shows that charter schools suspend students--especially children of color--at a higher rate than public schools.

A new study shows that educators with a pessimistic attitude toward education technology tend to teach at urban and low-income schools. This further widens the digital divide.