To meet the workplace needs of this moment, high schools must expand career technical education (CTE) and dual enrollment opportunities through local community colleges. Students need meaningful exposure to career...
The next superintendent of Los Angeles Unified will have to steer the district through budget challenges, declining enrollments and political uncertainty.
Members of the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation discuss placing an operating referendum on the ballot on June 22.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Chancellor Kamar Samuels, making a child care announcement in January, will spend $290 million this year to prevent budget cuts at schools with falling enrollment. Educators and watchdogs wonder...
The flagship plans to adjust contracts and restrict hiring as it grapples with rising costs, declines in federal research funding and other challenges.
The unanimous decision came late Monday after the chair of the state university system board delayed a vote that could install Bell permanently.
Schools across the country are focusing keenly on two key priorities: teaching children to read and bringing down high chronic absenteeism rates that undermine learning. Both these goals could be scuttled by an alarming...
Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has resigned as leader of the Los Angeles Unified School District, four months after the FBI searched his home and office. A district spokesperson confirmed a letter of resignation from...
CoSN covers the policies and research currently driving the conversations around screen time in schools and offers a review of emerging legislation. The post This edtech podcast examines screen time in K12 appeared...
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. At Pinedale Elementary in Fresno, there’s almost no classroom aides, after-school tutors or behavioral counselors. Literacy activities...
My kid was coming home, taking pictures of his math homework, feeding them into an AI engine, and writing a single prompt: Solve. The post My teenage son is using AI to do his math homework. I’m now helping his...
Alienated by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about autism, advocates for disabled students are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration's shifting special education programs to his department. The post...
Policymakers and influencers from across the political spectrum spend a great deal of time thinking, talking and writing about how to close the wealth, opportunity and other gaps that are both markers and drivers of...
Microschools have operated in Indiana mostly as small private schools. But a network of public microschools is growing across the state, serving between 60 and 100 students per site.
Davenport, Iowa, superintendent TJ Schneckloth has an easy way of describing the impact of student absenteeism.  “Take your favorite book,” he said. “Let me rip one page out and it’s no longer your favorite book.”...
Kelly Kennard, right, volunteer with Friends of Kenwood Academy, jokes with co-workers while setting of their booth before the start of eighth grade graduation at Kenwood Academy on June 1, 2026, in Chicago.
We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from the latest moves from the U.S. Department of Education to cuts at major public universities.
The Trump administration launched a public dashboard to track Section 117 reporting, but policy experts worry it lacks necessary context.
From screen scoring to cybersecurity, Strayer University rewrites the rules of higher education.
California community colleges looking to create new bachelor’s degree programs have, in some cases, had final approvals delayed for years because of objections from California State University. Now, lawmakers are...
California community colleges looking to create new bachelor’s degree programs have, in some cases, had final approvals delayed for years because of objections from California State University. Now, lawmakers are...
Finding a summer job is harder than ever for teenagers in search of seasonal work. Entertainment and leisure hiring announcements fell 70% compared to a year ago, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Finding a summer job is harder than ever for teenagers in search of seasonal work. Entertainment and leisure hiring announcements fell 70% compared to a year ago, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Gov. Jeff Landry and legislative leaders are pushing back on claims from public school leaders that the governor’s plan to pay for teacher stipends with school operations funds would hurt public education across...
Every year, parents — usually mothers — toil months in advance of the summer break to sign kids up for camps, book nannies, fly grandparents out to help or sort out a medley of arrangements and schedules. Planning can...
To improve school attendance in a state with one of the nation’s highest absenteeism rates, Oregon education officials on Tuesday presented lawmakers with a plan to repeal existing attendance laws. The high-level...
Courtney Buuck thought there was some kind of mistake. When she learned that she received a $40,000 bonus payment on top of her base teacher’s salary last fall, she was in shock. Like other staff at United Schools of...
Math improvement rarely stalls because districts aren’t taking action. More often, it stalls because well-intentioned supports accumulate faster than schools can turn them into a coherent, actionable instructional plan....
The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was born into slavery in Maryland in...
Memphis-Shelby County Schools sued top Tennessee Republicans on June 18 over a new schools takeover law the district argues is unconstitutional.