From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Of Missouri’s four largest cities — Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, and Columbia — Springfield will soon be the only one without charter schools. Charter schools are already thriving in Kansas ...
Hundreds of New Jersey schools have earned top ranks among the best in the nation, including a STEM school snagging the number one spot in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2025-2026 ...
In New Hampshire, Gov. Kelly Ayotte championed a “bell-to-bell” ban that prohibits cell phone use in schools from arrival to dismissal, with some exceptions. Maine requires school districts to create ...
RACINE, WI (CBS 58) -- Sonnenberg Schools, a growing school for children with disabilities in Racine, is proud to announce its expansion into a second campus. The building, formerly home to beloved ...
Danny pressed the buzzer again. I had asked him — nicely — the first few times. Then firmly. Then with authority. It didn’t matter. He smiled and pressed it again. Brandon and Eliana burst out ...
The westward expansion and urbanization of the 19th century left clusters of families scattered across rural America, with only muddy ruts and a rudimentary web of roads to connect them. To attend ...
I received several rejections and referrals from colleges, including my dream school. I'm trying not to attach any meaning to my rejections, but I still feel like a failure. I'm trying to convince ...
Millions of children who head back to school this fall will find their phones are now gadgets non grata. Chancellor of New York City public schools David Banks has said that he is considering a ban on ...
High school students who started school at Kansas City's Ewing Marion Kauffman School saw something new when they entered their classrooms: a cellphone lockbox. A new policy requires all high school ...
Summer camps are done, kids are back at home with their families, mornings are getting a bit crisper as evenings are getting a bit shorter — all sur-fire signs that summer is ending and school is ...