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EdSource
Policy & Legislation
Congressional Republicans grill unfazed San Francisco superintendent on gender policies

The hearing gave House Republicans, facing a possible electoral loss in November, a stage for a flashpoint cultural issue popular with conservatives and, they believe, the public at large. San Francisco Unified...

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
No more scrolling at lunch: Officials from 3 Colorado school districts discuss their cellphone bans

All Colorado school districts must adopt a cellphone policy by July 1. Ahead of that deadline, officials from three districts with bans talked to the State Board of Education about how it’s going.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
CPS CEO Macquline King testified before Congress. Here are 3 key takeaways.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Macquline King appeared before Congress on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, to answer questions on the district's gender identity and sexuality policies.

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
House appropriators move to label graduate nursing as professional degree

The House Appropriations Committee advanced a bill that would enable students in those programs to access higher federal borrowing limits. 

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
340 Philadelphia school staff positions saved from cuts via last-minute city agreement

Mayor Cherelle Parker, center, announced Wednesday that she, City Council, and leaders of the School District of Philadelphia reached a deal to prevent the elimination of 340 school-based positions.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Superintendents defend policies about transgender students, parent rights on Capitol Hill

House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg in April. Walberg convened a hearing on parental rights in education under the title "Breaking Trust." Three progressive superintendents defended their...

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
DOJ opens investigation into CUNY student success program

The probe is one of dozens of civil rights investigations the federal agency has publicized over the last week.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
New Jersey awards Newark $400K to boost tutoring programs built on AI and high-impact sessions

Third grade students participate in Ms. Bolden’s class on the first day of school at KIPP Seek Academy in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday, August 22, 2024.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Michigan bills aimed at improving student literacy clear House committee

Three bills that supporters say will improve student literacy in Michigan cleared a House committee on Wednesday.

The 74
Leadership
Opinion: New NAEP Report Shows Learning Progress Has Stalled. Here’s What to Do About It

If you’re a parent who has felt, in the last few years, that something has changed in your child’s relationship with learning and school, you are not imagining it.  The Nation’s Report Card...

Technology & AI
DOJ accuses UC Davis medical school of illegally using race in admissions

The agency took aim at the Davis Scale, a metric tracking socioeconomic advantage that has helped the institution maintain diversity in its student body.

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Colorado group that started controversial ‘public Christian school’ faces member defections

Education reEnvisioned BOCES, where Ken Witt is executive director, lost one school district member this month and could lose the other by the end of June.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
After delay, Chicago school board renews charters amid revamped oversight

Chicago Public Schools headquarters. The Chicago Board of Education voted to approve contract renewals after asking to postpone the vote.

The 74
Budget & Finance
North Carolina Set to Nearly Double Remote Charter Academies Next Year

The number of remote charter academies operating in North Carolina is expected to nearly double next school year, according to state education officials. Ashley Logue, executive director of the Office of Charter...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Illinois approves numeracy plan to improve math education

Illinois approved a new comprehensive numeracy plan Wednesday aimed at improving students' math skills.

EdSource
Technology & AI
How teachers can use AI to leverage the classroom experience of their colleagues

One of the most powerful ways teachers can use AI is to tap the readily available, school-specific data on how their colleagues have solved everyday classroom problems.

The 74
Budget & Finance
‘A Sea Change’: Public School Supporters See Potential in New Tax Credit

Federal, state and local.  Historically, those are the three pots of funding districts have relied on to educate America’s students. One of the nation’s leading school finance experts says leaders should start...

The 74
Leadership
Under Mamdani, New York Will Be the First to Open Free Childcare Center for City Workers

Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for municipal workers in...

District Admin
Policy & Legislation
Austin public schools face reckoning as state takeover looms

Critics of a takeover say it could open the way for policy changes not necessarily aligned with the wishes of voters—but proponents argue that it could free the district to pursue reforms free of the pressures of local...

District Admin
Policy & Legislation
Trump law would also direct voucher money to public schools

The law, which creates the first-ever federal voucher program, is designed, in part, to lure Democrats. It’s unclear how many blue states will sign up. The post Trump law would also direct voucher money to public...

The 74
Leadership
Opinion: For Struggling Middle and High Schoolers, All Reading Is Good Reading

During my first year as a fifth-grade teacher, I taught a student who had moved from the Dominican Republic three weeks before school started. She spoke very little English and I spoke no Spanish, so I started by...

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
The New School AAUP slams faculty layoffs

The faculty group disputed what administrators describe as a need to shrink and restructure the institution to meet a new enrollment reality.

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
Coalition asks judge to halt Trump’s anti-DEI contractor order

The group, led by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, filed a lawsuit over the executive order in April.

Technology & AI
Leading the Era of AI

Empowering students to create, shape, and furnish the new jobs that AI will make possible.

EdSource
Budget & Finance
Shaw and Barrera offer starkly different visions for California schools

Sonja Shaw and Richard Barrera, both board presidents of high-performing school districts, are running for state superintendent of public instruction with differing views on transgender students, funding and ethnic...

EdSource
Budget & Finance
Shaw and Barrera offer starkly different visions for California schools

Sonja Shaw and Richard Barrera, both board presidents of high-performing school districts, are running for state superintendent of public instruction with differing views on transgender students, funding and ethnic...

The 74
Technology & AI
Long-Term NAEP Shows Growth for 9-Year-Olds, More Disappointment for Teens

Newly released data from America’s longest-running measure of student learning have delivered a decidedly split verdict on the state of schools. Math and reading scores from the “Long-Term Trends” edition of the...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
New NAEP scores offer optimism for younger students but warning signs for teens

A math teacher stands in front of the class and writes on a whiteboard. New NAEP data shows some improvement in math for 9-year-olds since the pandemic.

The 74
Policy & Legislation
NYC Kids Speak Up: What Mamdani Should Do if Knicks Win NBA Title

Chalkbeat
Leadership
An NYC student was ashamed of his antisemitic thoughts. This fellowship helped him resist prejudice.

Hillcrest High School student Matthew Canzius, right, stands next to (from right to left) Chayanika Chakravorty, Aden Gurmohamed, and Nickram Dulychand at the Center for Jewish History on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.