Jeremiah Steen was appointed to the DPSCD board on Wednesday. Pictured, Steen answers the board's questions in an interview for the position.
After closing abruptly this year, the Catholic institution is trying to pay off millions of dollars in debt.
The rule would ease the way for new accreditors to form and give agencies significant new duties, including overseeing intellectual diversity policies.
This March, Mary Ellen Lykins, a director of 10 Head Start centers serving around 200 kids in northwest Washington, submitted a seemingly simple application to the federal government: She wanted to convert one of her...
New York City teachers union members rally for paraprofessional raises in January, 2025. A bill that would grant $10,000 one-time pay bumps became law on Wednesday.
Colorado students take the PSAT and SAT in the spring.
Math scores continued to rise, but progress was uneven in literacy, according to the latest Colorado state test results.
The Chino Valley Unified School District is facing new legal scrutiny over its alleged school library book bans and an effort to require parental notification concerning student gender identity, the Los Angeles Times...
Authorities have given the all clear, and the Wheatland Union High School campus has been reopened following the second threat to campus safety in two days early Wednesday morning, The Sacramento Bee reported. A similar...
As superintendent of Desert Sands Unified in California’s Coachella Valley, Kelly May-Vollmer has a hard time naming a system that’s not somehow connected to the district’s broadband network. Parents can check a school...
New York State is betting big on Portrait of a Graduate. It could transform how schools think about student success — or become one of the most well-intentioned failures in recent education policy. Last summer, the...
This summer, I ran a one-week artificial intelligence pilot at the Chicago headquarters of Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America, a nonprofit dedicated to helping refugees succeed in school. Most of the students...
A school in Kentucky sent students home with a bound agenda that included absurd errors clearly made by AI. The periodic table was nonsense. The map of the U.S. lists the state of Illinois as “Vitoiis,” and Kentucky is...
There is broad consensus among psychologists that corporal punishment can be harmful to children, but the U.S. has no federal laws banning it in public schools. Instead, it's up to states and local districts to...
Indiana has more than 500 job openings for medical assistants, but training for the job isn’t cheap — between $1,500 and $4,000 at lower-cost schools, such as Indiana’s Ivy Tech Community College. The reduced $1,500...
Across the country, universities have seen dips in international student enrollment during Trump’s second term, but the University of California has largely avoided those decreases.
Arizona's expansive school choice program has drawn national attention from admirers and detractors alike. A proposal to add more oversight won't appear on the ballot this fall, but the debates linked to it aren't over.
Philly educators and school leaders are still waiting on their state test scores with less than a week until students return to classrooms.
Education reEnvisioned BOCES, which is headed by Executive Director Ken Witt, will dissolve in a phased process over several months.
A career attorney accused Trump officials of pressing for deals at Harvard, Columbia and Brown, despite insufficient evidence or incomplete investigations.
In the opening of what is expected to be a lengthy and tense federal trial, a lawyer representing California and three other states suing tech giant Meta told jurors the company misled “users, legislators, teachers and...
Plaintiffs argued that the new rule would be “catastrophic” for universities and international students, and have asked a federal judge to block it.
A new national report says Colorado and other states can improve results for high school students taking college-level classes.
Career Exploration Starts Earlier Than You Think When should career exploration begin? According to the research highlighted in this new guide, the answer is much earlier than many districts realize. Middle school is a...
NYC teachers could receive up to $8,500 for oversized classes, but weeks before school starts, it’s still unclear who will qualify for the extra pay.
Three years after voters passed an ambitious arts education funding measure, California’s K-12 schools were supposed to be awash in dance, music, theater and fine arts. But some schools are returning their arts money to...
Kaitlan Sakuma, a second-year student at Pitzer College in Claremont, is the newest student member of the California Student Aid Commission. She is one of two students on the 15-member board. “Commissioner Sakuma’s...
This school year, $450 million in Career Technical Education, or CTE, funding will be allocated to eligible school districts and county education offices following a push to stop California from leaving millions of...
Fresno State opened new student housing last week with some students moving in this week, The Fresno Bee reported. While the 22-campus California State University system has been adding thousands of beds over the last...
California fourth graders and their families will have free access to state parks again this year. The Free Fourth Grade Pass gives families admission to 54 state parks, up from 19 when the program was first established...