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Technology & AI
Rural NY School District Will Be One of First to Bring Humanoid Robot Into Classroom

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When students return to school this fall in the Salamanca City Central...

The 74
Leadership
What’s Next on North Carolina’s Literacy Journey?

Mary Derfel, assistant director of early literacy at North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s Office of Early Learning, recently heard Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen describe the dream that shaped his...

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
Education Department rescinds disparate impact regulations

Civil rights advocates say students of color will be harmed by the removal of the tool used to investigate racial discrimination.

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Leadership
The Bible, Hamlet, Dr. Seuss: Texas’ New Reading List

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Colorado officials knew ‘public Christian school’ was religious before it opened. They didn’t stop it.

More than two dozen state education employees and lawyers knew that Riverstone Academy planned to use religious curriculum before it opened in 2025.

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
EEOC drops bid to press Penn for Jewish employee information

The Ivy League institution had fought the demand in court, citing workers’ privacy and the extensive information it had already turned over to the agency.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
As Philadelphia plans to close schools, board members call for more scrutiny of charter enrollment

Philadelphia's Universal Audenried Charter High School is supposed to serve students from the surrounding Grays Ferry neighborhood. But only 20% of its students come from within its catchment.

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Technology & AI
What the Data Says About Rhode Island’s 7-year Takeover of Providence Schools

By some metrics, things are looking up for the Providence Public School District (PPSD). Students are coming to class more often. Their standardized test scores are rising. And more of them are graduating high school....

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Technology & AI
Students Convene to Hammer Out AI Bill of Rights for Schools

BOSTON — Tatiyana Reaves got into trouble recently for writing a one-syllable word — and not the one you’d think. Taking a computer class at her Fayetteville, N.C., high school, she handed in a paper with the offending...

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Leadership
The Island Without Childcare for Babies

For as long as anyone remembers, no childcare center on Kauaʻi has had a single opening for an infant or toddler. Not one. On this tropical island lush with vegetation, the childcare landscape is desolate. Kauaʻi is the...

District Admin
Technology & AI
DOJ probe prompts St. Louis County’s Special School District to revise seclusion, restraint policies

The U.S. Department of Justice found the district routinely violated its own policies and Missouri law when it relied on seclusion and restraint as a regular practice, rather than a final resort. The post DOJ probe...

District Admin
Technology & AI
AI is rapidly changing education and research needs to keep up

Conversations about AI in education often start with the right question: Is there evidence of the effects of this technology? The post AI is rapidly changing education and research needs to keep up appeared first on...

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Policy & Legislation
Opinion: My Fourth Grader Is Behind in Reading. He’s Not Alone — and Congress Can Help

This year, my son’s school sent out a book for the entire district to read, “The One and Only Ivan,” about a gorilla who lives in a cage in a mall on the side of a highway. While the book was deeply depressing, what was...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Here’s how far an Indiana Choice Scholarship voucher gets you at Indianapolis private schools

A student raises his hand in a classroom at Providence Cristo Rey High School in May 2019. Cristo Rey is one of several schools in the Indianapolis area that accepts Indiana Choice Scholarships.

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Budget & Finance
How Kentucky Achieved Bipartisan Childcare Reform

States are in a tough bind as they contemplate how to address childcare needs. The extra federal money from the pandemic era is gone just as they are trying to swallow higher spending and cost shifts mandated by the One...

Education Dive
Technology & AI
The fine art of talking about college budgets

Better financial communication can bolster transparency, experts said at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ conference.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Chicago school board presidential candidate Hilario Dominguez accused of breaking campaign finance rules

Voters cast their ballots in 2024 in Chicago. Hilario Dominguez, a candidate for Chicago school board president, has been accused of breaking campaign finance rules.

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
Trump officials plan to shift more research funding to individual scientists

In a wide-ranging memo, they also directed federal agencies to experiment with models other than peer-review for assessing research proposals. 

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Facing state scrutiny, Memphis schools intensify efforts to reduce chronic absenteeism

MSCS leaders and attendance staff are going door to door in neighborhoods with high chronic absenteeism to reduce barriers preventing students from showing up to school.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Education Department limits civil rights investigations into racial disparities in schools

The U.S. Department of Education announced that data showing racial disparities in schools won't be the sole basis for future civil rights investigations.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Union representing Chicago school support staff makes Board of Education endorsements

SEIU, which represents school janitors, crossing guards, bus aides, and special education assistants, endorsed Jessica Biggs for school board president Thursday. Their endorsements diverge from those of the Chicago...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
The fight for control over New York’s charter schools is escalating

Desks and chairs arranged in classroom at high school

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Second public school closes following Colorado law change aimed at controversial education group

Pueblo Classical Academy won't re-open in the fall, leaders announced this month.

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
Ctrl+F: Federal agencies used keyword searches to nix grants en masse, court records show

The National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and other agencies cut awards over terms like “diversity” and “health equity.”

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Budget & Finance
California Literacy Investments Are Mostly Working

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. It’s not quite the “Mississippi Miracle,” but California’s reading scores have been inching upwards since the state poured billions into...

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Technology & AI
NC Budget Offers Rural Childcare Businesses Financial Help They’ve Sought for Years

It’s been a difficult year for Mary Moody, owner of the top-rated Silver Bluff Kids Early Learning Center in Haywood County. She said her business has struggled since federal pandemic funds used to keep childcare...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
From literacy to school choice: How Michigan’s governor candidates compare on education

The four remaining candidates for Michigan governor agree that improving literacy is a priority. They face off in Aug. 4 primaries.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
IPEC board member Edward Rangel joins The Mind Trust as chief program officer

Edward Rangel, founding CEO of Adelante Schools and a board member at the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation, has been hired at The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based charter incubator.

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
House education committee advances bill to define sex as ‘biological’

The Republican-led Title IX Clarification Act would narrow the definition under the sex-based anti-discrimination law, codifying a recent Supreme Court ruling.

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School Safety
Opinion: I’m a Teen Athlete. We’re Missing Something Important About Concussions

Every soccer season, athletes like me are taught to watch for headaches, dizziness and blurred vision after a concussion. But no one has ever taught many of us that a concussion can also affect our mental health. ...