The union agreed to pay $50,000 in damages

Some district teachers, students place blame squarely on class sizes, but research on subject is mixed

After several days of classroom lockdowns when violent brawls broke out inside Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas, Cherish Morgan had had enough.

The New-York Historical Society looks back on the landmark gender equality legislation and how it transformed women’s access to education, sports and more.

The large development within the variety of girls in high school and school athletics — greater than three million in the present day, from 300,000 in 1972 — led to the rising professionalization of, and curiosity in, girls’s sports activities, and the objects within the exhibition exhibit that depth and development: Billie Jean King’s tennis racket, the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner Mary Lou Retton’s gymnastics slipper, Serena Williams’s tennis costume, jerseys from skilled girls’s basketball and soccer groups and a basketball Barbie doll.

Three students were arrested Wednesday in three separate assaults on teachers and staff at Las Vegas Valley schools, the latest in a growing trend of violence throughout the Clark County School District that some experts and community leaders say is the culmination of a lack of comprehensive resources for children that has been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Between pay gaps, the pandemic, growing class sizes and legislative directives, “the pressure on teachers right now is so formidable,” one expert said

There is no question the NCAA women's tournament has grown over the past 40 years, but in many ways, the progress “has stagnated, compared with how the men's has soared,” according to Megan Ryan of the Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE.

The event coming to Target Center this week has evolved since the first women's Final Four in 1982, but the biggest change has been in media coverage.

Recently, the Public Education Foundation (PEF) announced a new partnership with the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), which aims to address the current teacher shortage in public schools. This, through a mentoring program.

Thousands of teachers and other school workers in Sacramento walked off the job Wednesday as the California capital became the second big United States school district this month to see a work stoppage over pay and staffing shortages as a teachers strike in Minneapolis entered its third week.

Between pay gaps, the pandemic, growing class sizes and legislative directives, “the pressure on teachers right now is so formidable,” one expert said.