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Budget & Finance
NYC budget gives every public school kindergartner $1,000 for college, restores education programs

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Speaker Julie Menin announce a handshake agreement on the city's $125.8 billion budget. The deal boosts college savings accounts for all public school kindergartners and restores a slew...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
DPSCD adds five new schools to list of buildings with low enrollment, high costs

Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says a school's appearance on a list of small schools with low enrollment and high costs doesn't mean it might close. The district is looking for solutions to boost enrollment at the...

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Policy & Legislation
Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship

The Supreme Court ruled today that President Donald J. Trump exceeded his authority with his long-shot attempt to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to undocumented parents or those without permanent...

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Technology & AI
Lānaʻi School Relies on Temporary Power Lines for Years

After a power failure knocked out electricity in parts of Lānaʻi High and Elementary School in 2021, the state set up temporary electrical lines to get the lights back on. Five years later, the so-called temporary lines...

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes in women’s college sports

Colleges and K-12 schools can determine eligibility for women's and girls' sports teams based on "biological sex," the court ruled.

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Technology & AI
More Than Half of Georgia Teachers Now Use Artificial Intelligence to Prepare for Class

Has your kid ever used artificial intelligence to answer homework questions that their teacher used artificial intelligence to write? It’s possible, according to a report from the Georgia Department of Audits...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: As AI Advances, Student Voice Must Keep Pace

As I climbed the steps to the stage on the morning of my junior high graduation, I felt my heart racing. Just a few feet away stood a microphone and hundreds of eyes waiting for me to begin. As the commencement speaker,...

District Admin
Budget & Finance
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
Budget & Finance
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...

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Technology & AI
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
Technology & AI
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
Technology & AI
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...

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Technology & AI
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...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
This Brooklyn teacher connects chemistry to the real world — and just won $25,000 for it

Rayhan Ahmed (far right), a science teacher at Brooklyn's Gotham Professional Arts Academy High School, recently won a FLAG Award for Teaching Excellence.

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Policy & Legislation
Chicago’s school board is supposed to have a noncitizen advisory board. It still doesn’t exist.

Students listen in class at a dual-language elementary school in Chicago. Mayor Brandon Johnson still hasn't created a noncitizen advisory board for Chicago's school board, which is required by state law.

Education Dive
Leadership
Virginia and Ohio join effort to design 3-year bachelor’s degrees

While some say such degrees could increase college affordability, two groups blasted them as “stripped-down curriculum that prioritizes speed.”

Policy & Legislation
North Carolina Republicans ban DEI at public colleges

The new law took effect immediately and came after legislators overrode a veto from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein.

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Budget & Finance
Alaska Districts Close 12 Schools This Year, Amid Severe Budget Cuts

Alaska saw an unprecedented wave of school closures this year. District officials grappling with severe budget shortfalls have opted to close 12 elementary and middle schools across the state — in Anchorage, Wasilla,...

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Policy & Legislation
Incumbent VP, Top State Union Leaders Among Candidates for NEA President

While the U.S. celebrates over the Fourth of July weekend, four candidates will be vying for the top post of the nation’s largest teachers union. The National Education Association’s leadership election will decide the...

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Technology & AI
NYC Delays School AI Guidance After Backlash

New York City education officials are hitting pause on releasing comprehensive artificial intelligence guidelines after their draft policy from March sparked fierce backlash. Officials initially said their final...

District Admin
Budget & Finance
Ohio public school districts face teacher shortages amid reduced state funding, budget woes

Educators and advocates woory that reduced public school funding and a lack of resources has taken its toll already. But there is hope that opportunities exist, if the state can get behind them. The post Ohio public...

District Admin
Policy & Legislation
Texas education board approves Bible stories as required reading in public schools

The proposal, which mandates literary works such as Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" alongside passages from the New Testament, has been closely followed by education observers who say it appears to be the first of...

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Technology & AI
This Childcare Program Is 100% Employee-Owned. Will It Help Retain Workers?

Stephania Zamorano has been an educator in New York City for 15 years. Since 2021, she has worked at Imagine Early Learning Centers, a childcare organization that serves nearly 600 children across 12 sites, soon to be...

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Leadership
A Big Gamble on Revamping Petersburg’s Schools Fuels Hope in Virginia City

PETERSBURG, Va. — For years, the schools here have been stuck in a very bad place. As Petersburg’s once-booming manufacturing base hollowed out, crime increased and residents’ health worsened. Along the way, places for...

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Leadership
Housing, groceries, and medical needs: Detroit’s Health Hubs helping to get kids to school

DPSCD's Health Hubs opened in 2023 to streamline wraparound services for students and their families. Since then, chronic absenteeism has fallen in the district.

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Week in review: College ‘affinity housing’ could violate Fair Housing Act, HUD official says

We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from a record-high persistence rate to the latest federal lawsuit over in-state tuition for undocumented students.

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
Land-grant universities eligible for USDA, Ed Dept funds to improve agricultural research facilities

The two federal agencies are offering eligible institutions up to $30 million for property improvements — but the money requires a one-to-one match.

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Policy & Legislation
Decision Time Has Come for Newsom’s Proposal To Shift Control of CA Department of Education

The fate of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to shift control of the California Department of Education from the state superintendent of public instruction to a new education commissioner answering to future governors and...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: In the Age of AI, Everyone Should Be Hiring Theater Kids

This spring, an estimated 3.9 million high school students — one of the largest classes in American history — graduated into a world their education never fully prepared them for. They are, in many ways, the first...

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Budget & Finance
Connecticut Schools Double Down on Early Detection to Help Reading Scores

The first step to solving a reading delay is knowing it exists. Decades of research have found that all children learn to read by developing the same core skills. This applies to children with dyslexia, English language...