Aging school using portable toilets

The Tim Burton sequel to Beetlejuice is out. And our entertainment columnist Rebekah Chasse is back too with all the highlights. 

Finding a parking spot on STU and UNB campuses is like finding a needle in a haystack, according to some students. Information Morning Associate Producer, Prapti Bamaniya, drove down yesterday, found a spot and spoke to some students. 

An extra hour of instructional time for New Brunswick kindergarten to Grade 2 students is having a big impact on families. Jeanne Armstrong spoke to Lily Smallwood, a parent with four children in the public school system, about how she's handling the change.  

What happens when you take away a kid’s phone during school hours? In a word: drama. Some schools around the country are trying to completely remove smartphones from classrooms, requiring students to place them in pouches. Audie talks with Carol Kruser, Assistant Superintendent o ... Show More

Long after schools have fully reopened after the pandemic, one concerning metric suggests that children and their parents have changed the way they think about being in class.Sarah Mervosh, an education reporter for The Times, discusses the apparent shift to a culture in which sc ... Show More

Iolani Grullon teaches dual-language kindergarten in Washington Heights in New York City, where she has worked for the last 15 years.She, like many colleagues, is leery about a return to in-person instruction amid reports of positive coronavirus cases in other schools. “I go thro ... Show More

Full Hour | In today’s second hour, Dom welcomes in Caroline Moore, Vice President of Parents Defending Education, onto the Dom Giordano Program to discuss her organization’s effort to uncover school districts throughout the country who are hiding student’s gender preferences fro ... Show More

Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York's public high school system, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how black students are being let down by school leaders and administrators who are afraid to discipline unruly children for fear of being accused of racism. This convers ... Show More

Sara Schwartz, of Andover, Massachusetts-based Schwartz Hannum, who frequently represents private schools, discusses the trend of parents suing private schools over so-called “woke” instruction. June Grasso hostsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

With Labor Day weekend gone, summer is unofficially over — and millions of children head back to school this week, many virtually. Two teachers — Rosie Reid in California and Lynette Stant in Arizona — share how things are going in their schools so far. Many states have decided t ... Show More

Principal Amy Mason from Gurley, Alabama discusses her school's transformation to become a trauma informed school over the past five years. 

Our guest on Comm Focus today is Laine Larson, the Superintendent of Schools for District 181. Discussing distance learning, food for kids, construction projects. 

Schools are dealing with their own rising costs, but they are also coping with the impact of the cost-of-living on their pupils and their families. One primary school tells us how they’re facing up to the challenge. Can they thrive in tricky economic times? Felicity Hannah spends ... Show More