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Leadership
Detroit school board appoints 25-year-old youth advocate as its newest member

Jeremiah Steen was appointed to the DPSCD board on Wednesday. Pictured, Steen answers the board's questions in an interview for the position.

Budget & Finance
Bankrupt Anna Maria College to sell nursing program for $1.1M

After closing abruptly this year, the Catholic institution is trying to pay off millions of dollars in debt.

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
Education Department proposes accreditation overhaul

The rule would ease the way for new accreditors to form and give agencies significant new duties, including overseeing intellectual diversity policies.

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Budget & Finance
Head Start Providers Describe a System in Turmoil Amid Federal Cutbacks

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...

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Technology & AI
NYC paraprofessionals’ $10,000 pay bump becomes law as City Hall vows a legal challenge

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.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Colorado’s PSAT and SAT 2026 scores: How did your school or district perform?

Colorado students take the PSAT and SAT in the spring.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Colorado’s 2026 CMAS scores: See how your school and district did

Math scores continued to rise, but progress was uneven in literacy, according to the latest Colorado state test results.

EdSource
Technology & AI
Chino Valley Unified faces new complaint over alleged book bans, LGBTQ+ outing policy

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...

EdSource
School Safety
Wheatland Union High reopened after second threat in 2 days

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...

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Policy & Legislation
FCC Review Could End School Internet Program. Advocates Plan ‘Very Loud’ Protest

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...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: Portrait of a Graduate Initiatives Can Fail, but New York’s Doesn’t Have To

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...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: When AI Makes Young People Think for Themselves, Real Learning Happens

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...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Which AI chatbot did this school use to make such a ridiculous map?

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...

District Admin
Policy & Legislation
15 states have laws that allow corporal punishment in schools. Here’s where, and why

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...

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Technology & AI
Put the Credit Cards Away. Workforce Pell Will Help Pay for Career Training

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...

EdSource
Leadership
Trump’s visa policies are not deterring international students from California universities

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.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Arizona court kills voucher ballot measure, leaving a national school choice debate unresolved

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.

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Technology & AI
Philadelphia’s state test scores are delayed this year

Philly educators and school leaders are still waiting on their state test scores with less than a week until students return to classrooms.

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Budget & Finance
Controversial group that opened ‘Colorado’s first public Christian school’ will close after 13 years

Education reEnvisioned BOCES, which is headed by Executive Director Ken Witt, will dissolve in a phased process over several months.

Education Dive
Leadership
DOJ whistleblower alleges probes into universities were politically motivated

A career attorney accused Trump officials of pressing for deals at Harvard, Columbia and Brown, despite insufficient evidence or incomplete investigations.

EdSource
Technology & AI
High-stakes trial over impact of Instagram, Facebook on children opens in Oakland

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...

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Coalition sues Trump administration over 4-year student visa cap

Plaintiffs argued that the new rule would be “catastrophic” for universities and international students, and have asked a federal judge to block it.

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Policy & Legislation
As more Colorado students take college-level classes, a report says it’s time to make improvements

A new national report says Colorado and other states can improve results for high school students taking college-level classes.

District Admin
Leadership
[Download] Career Awareness and Exploration in Middle School

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...

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Technology & AI
NYC teachers were promised $8,500 bonuses for large class sizes. The details are murky.

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.

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Budget & Finance
Californians Voted to Spend $1 Billion on K-12 Arts. Why Are Schools Returning the Money?

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...

EdSource
Technology & AI
Pitzer College sophomore named to California Student Aid Commission

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...

EdSource
Technology & AI
California to distribute $450M in career tech funds to school districts this year

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...

EdSource
Policy & Legislation
Fresno State opens first student housing development in 50 years

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...

EdSource
Technology & AI
California expands free state park pass program for fourth graders

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...