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A Pasadena Fundamental Elementary teacher died last month. Shortly after, seven of the school’s classrooms were vacated while the building underwent air-conditioning repairs and air-quality testing.

Advocates say schools nationwide are misusing the practice in response to behaviors prompted by bullying or frustration over assignments. The hospital trips for psych evals, they say, often follow months of students' needs not being met.

Less than one-fifth the largest school districts offer paid parental leave for teachers, and only a handful of states guarantee it. That leaves few options for educators who want to start a family.

After the disruption and trauma of the pandemic, educators say kids still need added support this year. In some schools, they're making emotional wellness part of the curriculum.

Many districts, facing hiring challenges, see tending to the educators' mental health as a way to help them help students and to retain them.

The teacher “testified that, consistent with his training in natural sciences, he believes it is very important to ask questions and not blindly obey, or go along with, mandates,” and disputed the effectiveness of masks.

The release comes as new data reveals just 53 percent of Florida's third-graders passed the state’s reading test.

More than two years after the COVID pandemic began, students — and their teachers — are still dealing with impacts. Here are the voices of some teachers, as they describe the challenges they face, in their own words.

The school board will be asking voters to once again pay more in taxes to fund what they say are critical services, mental health support and school security staff.

A group of teachers and staff gathering at the district's headquarters to demand N95 masks, contact tracing and more vaccination campaigns.