Students in all Illinois public schools will soon have to abide by rules barring them from using cellphones or other personal electronic communication devices during school hours unless they have been given specific...
The same day The New York Times published its investigation of labor rights leader César Chávez’s alleged actions of sexual abuse, Bakersfield College professor Oliver Rosales was scheduled to teach his class, History...
Gov. Josh Stein, alongside the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) Secretary Dev Sangvai and leadership at Broughton Hospital, announced the first ever health care apprenticeship program within state...
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s newly released diaries have reignited the fight over whether he bears any responsibility for the disastrous pandemic-era school closures. Fauci’s critics, like Sen. Rand Paul, have seized on diary...
Students enter Sharon Christa McAuliffe Elementary on the first day of the 2024-2025 school year. This year, Chicago's school board adopted a new budget that relies on uncertain state funds to help reverse layoffs.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, seen here at a June 17 Senate education committee meeting, joined Democrats to support a bill reversing Trump administration moves to break up the...
New data shows not all certificate programs offer students the same wage growth opportunities. Nursing certificate programs are some of the most popular in Colorado.
Deputy Chancellor Simone Hawkins, pictured here in February, will leave the Education Department in September as New York City prepares to launch Mayor Zohran Mamdani's free childcare program for 2-year-olds.
Free backpacks are a popular item during back-to-school giveaways taking place in August throughout Detroit.
The state grants will cover up to 45% of the cost for large-scale projects, such as implementing energy efficiency measures.
Similar proposals have kicked around for years in Congress, but they’ve yet to become law despite sharpened public scrutiny of the practice.
CHICAGO — A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is calling for an overhaul of the nation’s childcare system, which they say is failing children, parents and providers.  The group of 13 Republican and Democratic...
A group of children walk past a federal building on Varick Street, July 22, 2025.
A major and final piece of West Virginia lawmakers’ 2023 hallmark education legislation goes into effect this school year when schools are required to retain third graders whose reading and math abilities aren’t at...
Short of dropping a dead weight copy of the state Education Code on your foot, a State Board of Education agenda item on the California School Dashboard normally wouldn’t evoke tears. But Jessica Sawko’s tears earlier...
A lawsuit filed by three parents argues that the displays violate a state religious freedom law and asks for them to be removed before school starts in August. The post Texans Try new tactic to remove Ten Commandments...
To these teens, the stakes for getting ahead of AI are clear. They pointed out how adult leaders were slow to protect students from the risks of other tech developments. The post Adults have struggled to set rules for...
In the Pilsen neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, there’s a mural of my grandfather selling ice cream. My dad worked construction and sold ice cream too, and he and my mom both spent years working in...
Anthropic recently rolled out its Claude for Teachers tool, making a free version of Claude with advanced technical capacities available to any K-12 U.S. educator who applies to the company using a school email address...
Under the initiative, companies will provide funding so students can conduct dissertation research at their sites for at least a year.
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates rallies before the Board of Education meeting Thursday, during which 11 CTU-aligned members amended the district's budget to reverse layoffs by relying on state revenue...
Iris Taylor, a member of the Detroit Public Schools Community District board and a prominent healthcare leader, died 74. Here, she speaks during the Cody High School graduation in June 2019.
The union representing lunchroom workers in Chicago Public Schools requested fact-finding Thursday, taking a step closer to a strike. Pictured: Lunch workers protest the lack of a contract following a Chicago Board of...
A newly released evaluation of Colorado's state-funded preschool program says providers and advocates are eager for the state to focus on quality.
The proposed legislation moves to the full Senate just weeks after the House introduced 10 bills that would codify some of the agency’s transfers.
The Christian institution is suspending education activities indefinitely after its board determined it “could not continue academic operations responsibly.”
Metal detectors at an entrance to North-Grand High School in Chicago. The school is one of more than 50 that will see cuts to funding provided to implement restorative justice practices and other holistic approaches to...
Some board members for the Detroit Public Schools Community District are reconsidering plans to demolish four school buildings that closed at the end of the 2025-26 school year.
Updated A Senate committee advanced legislation Thursday aimed at undoing the Trump administration’s efforts to split apart the U.S. Department of Education. The bill delivers the plan the biggest rebuke since Education...