Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that will allow California youths ages 16 and 17 to obtain a public library card without a parent being present. The law goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2028. The bill is meant to...
My research team from the Understanding America Study at the University of Southern California recently asked parents of school-aged children to upload a snapshot of their kids’ school attendance record from last year...
Improving student achievement is notoriously difficult. Do schools need more money? Better teachers? More standardized testing? Less? The post 30 ideas for fixing U.S. Schools, ranked by experts appeared first on...
Missouri has spent the last several years overhauling its approach to teaching reading. State leaders have invested millions in teacher training, evidence-based instruction, literacy screening and interventions for...
For years, researchers and education pundits have tried to tell parents that their children are not performing as well as they might think in school. The message might finally be seeping in. Since 2022, the percentage...
This year is DPSCD's last to spend its $94.4 million literacy lawsuit settlement. The district analyzed what did and didn't work during the first two years of initiatives the settlement paid for.
The Education and Justice departments pointed to trauma and lost instructional time caused by false threats to campuses.
The California Teachers Association is working to pass Proposition 3, a November ballot initiative that would preserve a state income tax. The CTA’s strategy: teachers canvassing door-to-door.
Cassie Reed and her two young children had just moved from a domestic violence shelter into a third-floor apartment in Spokane, Washington, when she spotted a soon-to-open Head Start preschool on the building’s ground...
As AI features flood K-12 curricula, educators are left to filter proven quality from marketing hype.
School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony Watlington speaks at Edward Gideon School in North Philadelphia on Sept. 28, 2026 about the expansion of the Handle With Care program.
The university’s board of governors was denied a request for a preliminary injunction aimed at protecting it from dissolution.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law legislation will require schools to assess the math capabilities of students in kindergarten through second grade. Senate Bill 1067 is intended to prevent achievement gaps in the...
The move formalizes court decisions that had already blocked the Biden administration's anti-sex discrimination rule protecting LGBTQ+ students.
Declining birth rates mean fewer students. And that means more districts grappling with whether to close or merge schools. “The big shrink” is how Marguerite Roza, director of Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab,...
High school students chant and march through downtown Denver to protest the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and treatment of immigrants, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. ICE activity around campuses this school...
The Trump administration on Monday officially threw out the Biden-era Title IX rule, which extended protections against sexual harassment and assault to LGBTQ students. But officials stopped short of including a...
In its 2027-28 state budget proposal, the public system emphasized the importance of a unified adoption of artificial intelligence practices and policies.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Sunday a bill that would make more funding for arts teachers accessible to schools, the Los Angeles Times reported. Assembly Bill 2440 was designed to urge school districts to use...
The U.S. Department of Education announced that it has rescinded protections for LGBTQ+ students under Title IX, The Hill reported. Under the Biden administration, interpretations of Title IX gave protections to...
In 1874, the school board of Davenport, Iowa, offered Phebe Sudlow the superintendency at less than the departing man’s salary. Her response has echoed across history. “Gentlemen, if you are cutting the salary because...
Educators often end up spending their own money on the kids they teach, despite being in a profession that rarely leaves them with enough disposable income to do so comfortably. Whether it’s pipe cleaners and glue...
For a few weeks last school year, a small group of students in Dayton, Ohio, regularly sat in front of laptops in conversation with a social-emotional learning chatbot named Jordan. The post Welcome to the ‘Wild West’...
The rescissions appear to target pots of funding that have the weakest constituencies on Capitol Hill, including $25 million of $52 million appropriated for migrant students. The post Trump proposes $810 million in...
Chicago Board of Education swearing in ceremony on Wed., Jan. 15, 2025. Chalkbeat Chicago compiled how school board incumbents running to keep their seats voted on a range of key issues.
St. Louis Public Schools was one of America’s largest school systems in the late-1960s, educating 115,000 students at its peak. But at the beginning of the 2026–27 academic year, after decades of erosion and poor...
The college used climate bonds to finance a geothermal heating and cooling system on its campus.
The demand for microcredentials is real. How do you ensure the underlying systems can support the growth your institution is already planning for?
We’re rounding up recent stories, from a lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health to state legislation expanding community college bachelor’s degrees.
The federal watchdog recommends better alignment of counts for enrolled and chronically absent students.