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Technology & AI
Absenteeism Is a Major Problem. So Why Can’t Schools Agree on How to Measure It?

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...

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Newark piloted the state’s cellphone ban with positive results. Here are lingering concerns.

Newark piloted a cellphone ban last school year. The experience was positive in several respects, but teachers and parents still have concerns.

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
How Sonoma State saved academic programs slated for closure

After wide-ranging academic cuts, the public institution’s leaders worked with faculty to make some previously doomed programs more efficient and viable.

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Week in review: The conservative vision for higher ed

We’re rounding up recent stories, from a request from U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to cuts at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Education Dive
Leadership
Elite colleges are returning to the SAT and ACT. Will others follow?

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. 

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Policy & Legislation
Nearly 15 Years After Student Discipline Reform, School Suspensions in Mass. Are Falling. Are Emergency Removals Taking Their Place?

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...

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Leadership
California Expands Lunch Program That Pairs Schools With Farms

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...

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Leadership
LAUSD’s Youngest Students Will Start a Screen-Free School Year. Here’s What Parents Need to Know

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...

Budget & Finance
When Sex Education Funding Is Taken Away, Young People Lose a Safe Space

On June 26, Children’s Aid was preparing to continue summer sexual health and youth development programming in schools, foster care settings and community organizations across New York City. By the end of the day, the...

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Despite state funding increase, gap to adequately fund schools widens in most Illinois districts

Illinois state lawmakers approved a $350 million increase in education funding this summer, but most school districts are further away from reaching their funding adequacy goals than they were a year ago.

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Colorado public colleges and universities try to keep student services safe from budget ‘belt tightening’

Colorado State University Fort Collins cut $54 million from its budget cut amid financial concerns that include flat operations funding from the state and less federal support for research.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Voting records show IPS board candidate Lindsey Cornett did not meet requirement to run as a Democrat

Two candidates for IPS school board have had their party affiliations challenged.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
NYC reading scores sink, with third grade proficiency falling 14 points

NYC students’ reading proficiency fell 6 percentage points in grades 3-8, with steeper drops in early grades, as officials investigate dramatic swings in test scores.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
These Chicago school board incumbents face no opponents. What does that mean for voters?

Ellen Rosenfeld, left, and Angel Gutierrez, right, are current elected members of the Chicago Board of Education, and they're running unopposed this year's election.

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Leadership
Opinion: Students Are Anxious – And It’s No Surprise, Since We Teach Them to Be That Way

Temporary anxiety can often surface before the first day of school. Sometimes, that can help kids get in the right mindset for a big day. But when anxiety becomes a constant feature of children’s and teenagers’ days,...

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Budget & Finance
New Mexico Judge Orders Meta to Pay $567M for Youth Harm Abatement Fund

New Mexico First Judicial District Judge Bryan Biedscheid at the end of the day Thursday issued a ruling in the state’s pending case against social media giant Meta, ordering the company to pay $567 million for an...

Infrastructure
‘Nobody Feels Good, Nobody’s Learning’: High Temperatures Disrupt School Days

For nearly two years, teacher Isabelle Ouyang and her colleagues have dealt with the presence of construction workers, shuffling between classrooms, stress over schedules, and a host of disruptive renovations. Ouyang...

Leadership
Opinion: Making School Lunches Healthy Is Great – If Kids Will Eat What’s on the Tray

Shortly after being named America’s unhealthiest city in 2009, Huntington, West Virginia, gained national attention when British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver arrived to film the first season of his reality TV series Food...

District Admin
Policy & Legislation
Trump administration moves to deregulate Head Start, opening door for sweeping change

The Trump administration is proposing significant changes that would diminish the program's federal standards and give states and parents more control. The post Trump administration moves to deregulate Head Start,...

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Leadership
Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on Biden’s Education Legacy

After nearly two years out of the limelight, the Biden family has returned to the political conversation this summer. Joe Biden announced last month that he will soon release a memoir of his time in office. That volume...

Budget & Finance
Minnesota State Mankato to undergo layoffs, hike tuition amid $22M shortfall

Despite strong enrollment, the public university said it’s facing a large budget hole due to stagnant state funding.

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
The Heritage Foundation releases sweeping model bill to overhaul higher ed

The conservative think tank framed the proposal as a way for state lawmakers to “codify the principles” of the Trump administration’s higher ed compact.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Detroit school district addresses school cleanliness, special education, and more in community meeting

DPSCD Superintendent Nikolai Vitti listens to an audience member during a community meeting Aug. 7 at Renaissance High School in Detroit.

Education Dive
Leadership
Alum launches as college-town hospitality concept, debuting in Alabama

The move intends to bring luxury condo-hotels and year-round programming near campuses as hospitality players move in on college markets.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
This Colorado school district is using Biblically infused reading curriculum made for Texas students

The 2,200-student Montezuma-Cortez district recently adopted the Bluebonnet elementary reading curriculum, which includes Biblically infused lessons.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Philadelphia parents describe ‘devastating’ toll of preschool exclusion and suspensions

Philadelphia parents are asking the city to help prevent preschool suspensions and exclusion.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Unequal algebra access in Philly is ‘discriminatory’ says key city official as district plans changes

Brenda Elliott, the Philadelphia school district’s deputy superintendent of academics, said Thursday the district intends to offer algebra at all 126 district schools that enroll eighth graders by the 2027-28 school...

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Leadership
Back-to-School Costs Hit Families with Sticker Shock

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School Safety
Head Start’s Antipoverty Mission Threatened by Trump Administration Overhaul

Most of Cassie Reed’s life has been marked by instability. During her childhood, she moved between nine different foster homes, often enduring abuse. Violence followed her into her adult life, as she met and fled...

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Technology & AI
Which Families Are Using ESAs? What We Know About Texas’ First School Vouchers

More than 85,000 families are participating in Texas’ private school voucher program during its first year, a number that could increase as state officials finalize enrollment data, according to a new state report....