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...
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.
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.
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a bill that would enable students in those programs to access higher federal borrowing limits.
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.
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...
The probe is one of dozens of civil rights investigations the federal agency has publicized over the last week.
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.
Three bills that supporters say will improve student literacy in Michigan cleared a House committee on Wednesday.
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...
The agency took aim at the Davis Scale, a metric tracking socioeconomic advantage that has helped the institution maintain diversity in its student body.
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.
Chicago Public Schools headquarters. The Chicago Board of Education voted to approve contract renewals after asking to postpone the vote.
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...
Illinois approved a new comprehensive numeracy plan Wednesday aimed at improving students' math skills.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The faculty group disputed what administrators describe as a need to shrink and restructure the institution to meet a new enrollment reality.
The group, led by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, filed a lawsuit over the executive order in April.
Empowering students to create, shape, and furnish the new jobs that AI will make possible.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.