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Leadership
Indianapolis Public Schools board taps Chris Bultman to represent District 4

The IPS school board appointed Chris Bultman to represent District 4.

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Technology & AI
IPS school board approves Cold Spring School’s bid to be an innovation charter school

The IPS school board approved Cold Spring School's request to be a charter school while remaining an innovation school.

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Policy & Legislation
Education Department officials deny doing an end run around Congress

The Trump administration has used interagency agreements to move U.S. Department of Education functions to six other agencies.

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Budget & Finance
Hochul delays plan to tighten childcare voucher rules, averting shockwaves for thousands of NYC families

More than 100,000 New York City kids receive a state-funded childcare voucher. Gov. Kathy Hochul is pausing enforcement of a rule that would allow city parents to use a voucher only when they're working or in school.

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Leadership
Delays in ramping up work on Chicago’s Black Student Success Plan frustrate some advocates

School staff and Chicago education leadership welcome students as they walk into Austin College and Career Academy for the first day of school in Chicago on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. School board member Jitu Brown,...

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Technology & AI
Democrats move to impeach McMahon for Education Department dismantling

Dive Snapshot:  Rep. Suzanne Bonamici filed three articles of impeachment Thursday against U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, accusing her of illegally dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and lying...

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Budget & Finance
Chicago school board adopts legislative agenda calling for more funding — after state lawmakers adjourn

The Chicago Board of Education passed a legislative agenda about a month after state lawmakers adjourned for the summer.

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Policy & Legislation
Court temporarily blocks Ed Dept regulations limiting ‘professional’ degrees

The agency released widely contested regulations this spring that blocked access to higher borrowing limits for many graduate students.

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Infrastructure
Does teacher merit pay work? Programs in South Carolina and Texas show results

A classroom at Bates Academy during the first day of school on August 25, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan. Two teacher merit pay programs show benefits for students, according to two separate studies.

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Leadership
Find out how much Colorado college tuition and fees have increased over the years

Tuition and fees at Colorado's four-year universities have more than doubled since 2009.

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Technology & AI
Half of Philadelphia’s high school graduates opt out of college. Can pre-apprenticeships help them find jobs?

The Philadelphia-based organization We Love Philly runs pre-apprenticeships in digital marketing and cyber security. The aim, program leaders say, is to provide young people with skills that will help them in any job.

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Technology & AI
Reed Hastings on What It Will Take for AI to Be Different From Other Ed Tech

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
‘Historic’: Kansas City Public Schools Teachers Win 5% Raise

Kansas City Public Schools teachers will receive a 5% base salary raise after the school board approved a new collective bargaining agreement with the Kansas City Federation of Teachers, the district’s teachers...

Policy & Legislation
Undocumented students could be barred from Florida public universities

The state’s public university system board on Thursday advanced the proposal, which has garnered support from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Leadership
Democrats Move to Impeach Linda McMahon Over ‘Willful Intent’ to Close Ed Dept.

Linda McMahon became the first U.S. education secretary to be the target of impeachment proceedings Thursday.  Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, a member of the House education committee, filed three articles of impeachment...

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Technology & AI
Wisconsin’s Childcare Providers Face Uncertainty As Funding Comes to an End

In June 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Nestling House, a childcare center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was preparing to reopen after closing down in mid-March, like so many other childcare programs around the country. It...

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Budget & Finance
100 years ago, students across took the first SAT. Where is it headed now?

Higher education has been inching away from entrance exams. Less than 10% of U.S. institutions that grant bachelor’s degrees require a score from the SAT, or its fellow ACT test, for the fall 2026 admissions cycle. The...

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Leadership
Splitting Up Special Ed and Civil Rights Will Dilute Services, Experts Say

As a special education advocate in Oklahoma, Lucia Frohling handles about 40 cases per year in which schools reduce class time for students with disabilities, often for behavior issues or serious medical conditions. ...

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Technology & AI
Persistence rate tops 77%, the highest level in a decade, report finds

New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center also showed that Black and Hispanic persistence rates reached decade highs.

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Leadership
Most kindergartners who start school behind never reach proficiency: study

Educators and parents shouldn't assume that children who struggle in kindergarten will just catch up with time, researchers say.

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Technology & AI
LAUSD Board Appoints Longtime Administrator Andres Chait as Next Superintendent

The Los Angeles Unified Board voted unanimously to appoint Andres Chait, a longtime district administrator, as superintendent days after his predecessor resigned.   “This board’s decision reflects the confidence in...

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Leadership
IPS school board interviews 2 applicants for District 4 vacancy

On Wednesday, the IPS school board interviewed two finalists, Chris Bultman and Lindsey Cornett, for the District 4 vacancy. The IPS board will vote on an appointee on Thursday.

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Leadership
Detroit teachers’ union approves tentative 2-year contract with school district

The DFT's tentative agreement with DPSCD includes pay bumps for all members, according to union leadership.

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Technology & AI
Another defection hits group that launched ‘Colorado’s first public Christian school’

Ken Witt, the executive director of ERBOCES, said member institutions sometimes leave when they have political or administrative changes.

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Technology & AI
NYC delays school AI guidance after backlash

Education Department officials said during a City Council hearing on Wednesday that they are delaying a final policy on artificial intelligence in schools.

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Leadership
After a year of controversy, the leader of a shuttered ‘public Christian school’ is pitching a new venture

Quin Friberg, the leader of the now-closed Riverstone Academy, pitched his new venture to the Pueblo County District 70 school board Tuesday.

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Policy & Legislation
Kansas joins DOJ in effort to end in-state tuition for undocumented students

The proposed agreement came hours after the U.S. Department of Justice sued the state over its decades-old law.

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Budget & Finance
Private colleges grew revenue last year — but not by enough, Fitch says

Costs, competition and ‘adversarial federal policy’ are weighing heavily on private colleges, according to analysts with the credit ratings agency.

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Policy & Legislation
Memphis students improve on state reading tests but struggle in math

Memphis high schoolers significantly improved on Algebra and geometry state tests this year, seeing upwards of a seven percentage point increase.

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Technology & AI
How the Story of Young George Washington Offers Some Important Civic Lessons

Words like “failure” and “hardship” probably aren’t the first that come to mind in describing the legacy of the United States’ first president, George Washington. While Washington is generally viewed through a lens of...