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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
The two federal agencies are offering eligible institutions up to $30 million for property improvements — but the money requires a one-to-one match.
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...
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...
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...
More than a dozen Delaware public schools, mostly in New Castle County, are operating at less than 60% capacity, according to data from the Delaware Department of Education.  Five of those are more than half...
The first Title IX investigation under the second Trump administration centered on an all-gender restroom in a Denver high school.
The Trump administration found that several Jeffco Public Schools policies, including its policy on sports participation, violated the federal Title IX sex discrimination law.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's proposed budget cuts a popular data tool that nearly every school uses. Some educators are urging him to reverse course.
"As our federal research portfolio shrinks, the infrastructure around it must change in parallel,” a spokesperson for the private university said.
At a Board of Regents meeting Monday, state education officials announced that high school graduates in New York could soon start receiving a new type of diploma — one that reflects their skills and knowledge,...
Indiana’s school choice program leaves its nearly 300,000 rural public school students with fewer options and fewer resources while funding the private education of others. More than one in four Indiana school students,...
It’s the same picture, every year, when my family visits India. My uncle is sitting right in the middle of the gathering, and yet the conversation never touches him. He has cerebral palsy and depends entirely on others...
Adopting the state-approved Bluebonnet Learning curriculum for elementary students will come with a funding boost of more than $3 million for the district, which also approved a $2 billion operating budget on...
Fayette County Public Schools has been mired in controversy over its financial situation in recent years, with district officials recently saying FCPS has misstated its finances since at least 2008 and has much less...
In one of the opening scenes of “Toy Story 5,” Jessie — a cowgirl doll — tries to find out why the twins who live across the street never want to play with her owner Bonnie. What she finds, when she peers through the...
The Texas State Board of Education will vote Friday on a set of new social studies standards that have drawn fire and fervor for espousing pro-American views and Christian values.  If approved, the vote would...
Rep. Mark White, R-Memphis, sponsored the MSCS takeover bill and said it's unclear which board expenses will be covered by the state and which by local dollars.
The politically created academic centers have drawn fierce criticism from faculty, who say they expand state intrusion into higher education.
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero talks with students on the first day of school in 2024. Marrero sent an email to the school board earlier this month outlining several concerns with the board.