School boards

Will Kamala Harris’ candidacy inspire other women to run for office? Grant Baldwin/Getty Images by Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Harvard Kennedy School Kamala Harris is at the...

Volunteers campaign for Tammy Shamburger for a district school board office during an NAACP voter drive on Nov. 1, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. Octavio...

School board elections are increasingly contested. Nathan Howard/Getty Images by Casey D. Cobb, University of Connecticut When people run for school board these days, they often are...

 SUFFERN, N.Y. (AP) — When his fifth-grade son struggled with a question on primary colors posed by the TV show "Are You Smarter Than...

MONROE, La. (AP) — A gay student in Louisiana says she is going to skip her prom because the school principal won't let her...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama told Kansas high school graduates Friday that young people who've grown up with diversity must lead...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Isaac Barnett took a bold step last year: He told teachers and classmates at his Kansas high school that the...

Yolanda Beattie reacts to the Coatesville Area School District school board meeting in Coatesville, Pa., on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Superintendent Richard Como and and the high school's athletic director, Jim Donato, used district-owned cell phones to exchange a series of "shockingly racist" text messages in June. Both resigned abruptly during the first week of school and the school board accepted their resignation after 3 hours of public comment by parents, residents, and students. (AP Photo/Daily Local News, Vinny Tennis) COATESVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A southeastern Pennsylvania school board allowed two top administrators to resign despite calls to terminate them following allegations that they exchanged racist and sexist text messages on their district cellphones.

Coatesville Area School District Superintendent Richard Como and Athletic Director Jim Donato by Michael RubinkamAssociated Press Two officials at a large southeastern Pennsylvania school district exchanged "shockingly racist" text messages on district phones, a prosecutor said Monday. Prosecutors learned of the messages during an investigation into the Coatesville Area School District, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan told The Associated Press. "The text messages that we reviewed were of a shockingly racist nature," he said. "They looked like something from 1813, not 2013."