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District Admin
Budget & Finance
LAUSD placed on increased fiscal oversight with warning of looming financial troubles

The county education office cited the cost of recently approved employee contracts as well as ongoing structural deficits and declining enrollment. The post LAUSD placed on increased fiscal oversight with warning of...

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Leadership
Opinion: Are We Asking the Wrong Question in the Screen Time Debate?

For years, the conversation around young children and screens has been dominated by a fear of too much time, too little interaction and too many missed opportunities for real learning. In many cases, those concerns are...

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Temple University lays off 40 employees as it tackles deficit

The public Philadelphia institution is reducing its workforce for the second year in a row but has seen promising enrollment gains of late.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
This college rodeo team is mostly women. Here’s why that matters for rural men.

Colorado Mesa's Justise Jones competes on a college rodeo team that's mostly women. The school has had trouble recruiting and keeping men on the team.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
5 key takeaways from the final Memphis schools audit report

The audit cites leadership instability as a key cause of dysfunction as the battle over MSCS' state takeover continues.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
At Hunter College, students tackle garbage — and a new way of shaping policy

Delegates get to know each other and the issues on the first day of the assembly at Hunter College.

Policy & Legislation
California community college settles with professor who sued over DEI policy

Bakersfield College agreed to not require Daymon Johnson to use diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility principles in his teaching or scholarship.

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Budget & Finance
Market Share Continues to Hold Steady for NC Public Schools

Public schools continued to serve more than 1.5 million students across North Carolina in the 2025-26 school year — or about 84% of market share, a percentage that is about the same as previous years. Market share is a...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Chicago’s Black Student Success Director Eugene Robinson Jr. talks about the initiative’s first year

Eugene Robinson is the inaugural director of Black student success at Chicago Public Schools.

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Technology & AI
Finale: Takeaways from a Season of AI in Education

Class Disrupted is an education podcast featuring author Michael Horn and Futre’s Diane Tavenner in conversation with educators, school leaders, students and other members of school communities as they investigate the...

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Technology & AI
Dana Suskind on How To Protect Childhood in the Age of AI

The last time I interviewed Dr. Dana Suskind, we discussed the three T’s strategy outlined in her book “Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling Society’s Promise”: Tune in. Talk more....

District Admin
Technology & AI
Most states fail to meet IDEA requirements, feds say

Just 20 states earned a “meets requirements” designation from the Education Department this year for serving students with disabilities ages 3 to 21 under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The post Most...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Attendance, Enrollment, and Equity Answers Hiding in Your Transportation Data

Date & Time: Thursday, August 06, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET In this webinar, learn the key takeaways from a report suggesting that transportation teams are sitting on information that could directly connect to whether...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: In NYC District, Technology Works With Pencil and Paper To Help Kids Learn Math

This may sound strange coming from the co-founder of an education technology company, but I think paper is a powerful technology in a classroom. Research on the science of learning consistently says so. So do the piles...

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Technology & AI
Some Microschools in Limbo While Awaiting New Federal Tax Credit Rules

Public schools are beginning to imagine ways they can benefit from the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, after the Treasury Department clarified last month that district students will be eligible for scholarships. But...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Denver school board to hold special meeting to discuss superintendent’s concerns

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero expressed several concerns in a June email, including that the school board is getting too involved in administrative matters.

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Johnson-aligned Chicago school board members continue push for more funding from Springfield

Jitu Brown, elected member of the Chicago Board of Education, speaks at a press conference to urge Gov. JB Pritzker to call a special session in Springfield for more education funding.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Chicago school board names members of Black Student Achievement Committee

Aaron "Jitu" Brown, a Chicago school board member representing the West Side, poses for a portrait in Douglass Park on Sept. 10, 2024. Brown will lead the board's Black Student Achievement Committee.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Kamar Samuels asks NYC schools to pause software purchases until AI guidance is final

New York City schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels asked schools to pause software purchases while the city finalizes artificial intelligence guidance.

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Technology & AI
Chicago school board says candidates can’t accept donations from district vendors

The Chicago Board of Education voted on a resolution that would bar school board candidates from accepting campaign donations from vendors who do business with Chicago Public Schools. Pictured: The Chicago Board of...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Philadelphia teachers describe chaotic ‘fantasy football draft’ to get their school assignments

Philadelphia teachers say the district's process for placing staff in open positions this summer has created confusion and frustration.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Education Department scaled back special education monitoring: report

Special education teacher Stephen Torres Esquer works with students in his classroom at Lowell High School in San Francisco in 2019. A new report raises concerns that under the Trump administration, the federal...

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Faculty groups question DOJ’s Yale admissions claims, balk at potential deal

“Yale has the resources, stature, and responsibility to stand firm,” the American Association of University Professors and other groups said. 

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Denver Superintendent Alex Marrero no longer in the running for top schools job in Miami

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero applied for the top job in Miami-Dade County Public Schools but is not among the six semifinalists, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday.

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Policy & Legislation
Hoosier Childcare Providers Slam Education Requirement Rollback

About two-dozen Hoosier childcare providers and advocates overwhelmingly opposed looser statewide staff educational requirements during a Monday public hearing. “This is a profession. This is not just a babysitting...

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Budget & Finance
Tennessee releases final results of Memphis schools forensic audit

Results from the yearlong probe into MSCS' finances and operations come less than a month before the first day of classes.

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Technology & AI
Appeals Court Says Religious Schools Can’t be Exempt From Maine’s Nondiscrimination Laws

Religious schools accepting public funds are required to follow Maine laws that protect against discrimination based on faith, gender identity and sexual orientation, a federal court has ruled. Crosspoint Church, which...

Chalkbeat
Infrastructure
Teachers in Michigan school district can pick from 32 phrases or face legal review over classroom posters

A demonstrator holds a sign supportive of LGBTQ students outside a school board meeting in Glendale, California, after a motion to recognize Pride Month there in 2023 sparked violent protests. Classroom imagery...

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Technology & AI
NC High School Students Pitch Local Tech Companies at Annual Teamship Showcase

Local technology companies may have solved some of their biggest problems after hearing from North Carolina high school students during the annual Teamship Showcase in Durham on June 25. Teamship is an internship...

Technology & AI
AAUP sues over Texas Tech classroom instruction limits

The national faculty group, alongside a local affiliate, asked a judge to block the directives and rule them unconstitutional.