More From the World of K–12 Education

District Admin
Across West Virginia, public schools are closing. Communities are feeling the loss.

Across West Virginia, public schools are rapidly closing. Political leaders are cutting taxes and funneling hundreds of millions of taxpayer money into a school voucher program, while wringing their hands about local...

District Admin
New law allows NH voters to veto school administrator pay increases

The state's school administrative units will soon be required to craft their own budgets and voters will be empowered to vote down those budgets, under a law that Republicans hope will help drive down K12 costs. The...

The 74
New Report Finds Five-Year Drop in Preschool Enrollment, but COVID’s Effects Loom

The percentage of  3- and 4-year-olds enrolled in school dropped during the most recently available five-year lookback window of federal data, though that picture is likely clouded by COVID-era school...

Education Dive
Younger workers may be falling behind in critical thinking skills

The three largest skill gaps in the younger workforce represent “the very skills most essential to humans in the AI era,” per a report from Cangrade.

Chalkbeat
4 numbers that show how chronic absenteeism is becoming a long-term crisis

A sign reads "Attendance Matters" at Samuel Gompers Elementary-Middle School in Detroit. Detroit has seen gains from its efforts to improve attendance, but chronic absenteeism remains a stubborn problem, there and...

Chalkbeat
Detroit school district loses court appeal against state over paying debt with operating tax revenue

Unless appealed again, the court loss means DPSCD will have to rely on voters' approving a ballot measure allowing the district to collect its own operating revenue for the first time. Pictured is a hallway in DPSCD's...