Troy High School on April 24, 2026
Third grade students in Warren Township read in summer school to focus on passing the IREAD exam in June 2025.
Voyages Prep students Joseth Laiz (center) and Kamrin Jones (far left), helped spearhead the Playground Ninety basketball court project. They are with New York City Council member Shekar Krishnan at the playground's...
A version of this analysis originally appeared in the “Aldeman on Education” Substack. According to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, K-12 schools lost 50,000 workers from June to July. The...
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Reading scores sank in New York City last school year, with a nearly 14 percentage point decline among third...
The Shenandoah County School Board must rename two schools after a federal court found its 2024 decision violated students' rights. The post Judge rules Virginia school board discriminated against Black students by...
This year brings a new challenge for Armaghan Khan and many other teachers in the nation's second-largest school district: Ban screen time for younger students, and significantly limit it for older kids. The post The...
A.J. Johnson’s oldest son was born in 2019, the year before residents of his home state of Washington could receive benefits from its newly passed paid family leave program. Johnson, a full-time firefighter, had to save...
States looking to grow their college-educated workforce should focus on "homegrown talent” over wooing outside workers, according to the analysis.
As Iowa’s Education Savings Account program continues to expand to include all K-12 families, rural public school districts are still trying to determine how the scholarships will affect their classrooms, budgets and...
The Marion County Election Board met Monday to vote on challenges to the candidacy of IPS school board District 4 candidates Lindsey Cornett and Chris Bultman.
District officials in the Montezuma-Cortez district will remove Christian faith-based content from elementary reading lessons provided by the Houston school district in Texas.
Student Titan Jones gives a high five to a staff member at James Russell Lowell Montessori School 51 on the first day of school in Indianapolis.
Under the settlement terms, the private college will bar discrimination against Zionist, Jewish and Israeli students and employees.
The Chicago Board of Education is poised to consider two nonbonding referendums to seek symbolic support for more state and city funding from city voters in November.
Updated When Jen Hanson, a veteran multilingual educator, first arrived at Denver’s Cherry Creek School District in June 2025, she said she quickly suspected the district was creating its own rules for moving students...
Manhattan federal Judge Loretta Preska signed a court order in 2023 requiring to the city to complete dozens of reforms to more quickly provide special education services and payments to families. The city has yet to...
Standardized testing has long been the gold standard of student success. Large-scale assessments give districts a big-picture view of student progress, offering convenient data points to compare performance, identify...
As students head back to class across the country, Varsity Tutors for Schools, one of the nation’s largest providers, has gone out of business. In a shareholder letter last week, Chuck Cohn, CEO of Nerdy, Varsity’s...
COVID funding provided underfunded Philly-area schools with laptops. ‘RAMageddon’ might send them back in time as the worldwide computer memory shortage drives up the cost of laptops. The post Rising computer costs...
Black Texas families weigh whether to send their children to schools with more academic resources — but potentially fewer of their values. The post Tough choices face Black parents when schools struggle appeared first...
 For the past several years in Miami public schools, every student — including my own children — could stand in the same cafeteria line, carry the same tray and eat lunch for free. But on July 22, the Miami-Dade...
It’s 2026. Satellites connect to devices in our pockets, artificial intelligence algorithms can drive cars and scan X-rays, and Homer’s 3,000-year-old poem is the basis for the summer’s hottest movie. But there’s always...
Newark piloted a cellphone ban last school year. The experience was positive in several respects, but teachers and parents still have concerns.
After wide-ranging academic cuts, the public institution’s leaders worked with faculty to make some previously doomed programs more efficient and viable.
We’re rounding up recent stories, from a request from U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to cuts at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Top-ranked colleges and the Trump administration are embracing the exams, but that doesn’t mean test-optional policies are falling out of favor everywhere.
In 2012, after child advocates spent years trying to reduce punitive suspensions in schools, Massachusetts passed sweeping education reforms under Chapter 222, kickstarting a longstanding policy shift away from...
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In school lunchrooms around Lake Tahoe, students line up for a red, hairy fruit called a rambutan. On pozole day, they shout, “We want...
Screen time limits for Los Angeles Unified School District’s youngest students begin in August. “My hope and expectation is that most families will see a dramatic reduction in screen time during the school day, but also...