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Chicago school board member Jessica Biggs faces scrutiny over 2018 firing as she runs for leader

Jessica Biggs spoke with voters outside Mollison Elementary on Election Day in 2024, when she first won election to the school board.

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NYC students may soon only need passing grades — not Regents exams — to graduate

New York’s Regents exams are set to be phased out as a graduation requirement starting next year. The state’s new assessment system could take years to develop. In the meantime, city students would need to pass their...

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Could Newark’s universal enrollment system teach Philadelphia some lessons?

Newark adopted a universal enrollment system in 2014, but political tensions between district officials and charter schools split the system several years later.

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Philadelphia’s school enrollment system is infamously complicated. Could a universal application help?

Parents and students say Philly's selective admissions application process is very complicated and stressful to navigate. Experts think universal enrollment could address that problem, but it's not a cure-all.

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More Unlicensed Teachers Are Filling In Gaps In Hawaiʻi Classrooms

As the new academic year started last month, more students were being taught by educators who had not yet completed the training or testing needed to earn a Hawai‘i teacher’s license. The Hawaiʻi Department of Education...

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Newsom appoints Katie Porter to California Community Colleges governing board

Katie Porter, a former Democratic congresswoman who ran for California governor in the June primary, has been appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to the California community college system’s Board of Governors. Porter...