Colleen Laurich recently was a junior high science teacher and is now a first-grade teacher. Cathy Neiheisel is technology director and a computer teacher at Divine Infant Jesus School in Westchester, ...

After an uproar about a first-grade lesson based on a book about a boy in a dress, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board delays a public hearing on a diversity policy that would add LGBT issues.

The children huddle over their individual green chalkboards, their desks pushed together in groups of four or five. Each child wears a little white sport sock over one hand and holds a piece of cha… ...