Indianapolis Public School students can receive a zero on assignments again, but only if they make zero effort to complete them. The IPS school board updated the district’s grading policy to remove the district’s...
The federal Job Corps youth training program, under threat of shutdown by the Trump administration since May, 2025, will remain open after a group of students successfully fought the closure in federal court. The U.S....
Jefferson County, Colo., is one of the few public school systems to sue the Trump administration over demands that it revoke transgender protections or face funding cuts. The post One school district’s fight against...
Addressing basic needs by offering a host of services to all students and families is a priority that boosts attendance at Scholarship Prep South Bay. The post How an L.A. charter school has all but eliminated chronic...
In her new book, Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools, Natasha Singer, a veteran business reporter for The New York Times, traces Big Tech’s bid to persuade schools to embrace their products, with...
Today is International Literacy Day. The 60th anniversary, in fact. But with the rise of social media and video streaming, some news articles are warning that the Western world is heading toward a post-literate society...
U.S. students have risen in the rankings on a key international test even as student learning seems to be declining both here and globally.
Suspected cases of teacher misconduct have prompted parents in the Central Valley to demand that cameras be placed in self-contained special education classrooms.
California's State Board of Education is set to decide Wednesday whether to approve a list of 37 professional development programs for TK-5 literacy instruction amid criticism from advocates that the selection contains...
Jose Rivas, a teacher at Lennox Science and Technology Academy, explains how strong mentorship, coupled with new AI tools, enabled his students to impress professional engineers and company leaders.
The rise of so-called “baby slop” is turning early childhood educators into media critics.
Missouri’s largest charter-school sponsor entered August with nearly $3.3 million in its account, which is more than twice what it spent in the previous fiscal year. Now the Missouri Charter Public School Commission is...
At just 3 years old, Quintina Davis’ granddaughter, Juri, could name colors, numbers and shapes. Davis often heard from family and friends that Juri was smart and she should consider enrolling her granddaughter in...
We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from Antioch University’s fight against a "hostile takeover" to an IRS plan to punish diversity work.
California teachers report spending an average of $991 each year on school supplies, while the median school-provided budget nationwide is $200. The gap leaves teachers paying out of pocket and, in some cases, asking...
COLUMBIA — Helping save Lakeview School in West Columbia is Earnestine Holden’s retirement job. Like many of the people trying to save historic Black schools, Holden, who graduated from the school in 1967, isn’t a...
Library at Southport Elementary School in Perry Township on Fri., Nov. 17, 2023 in Southport, In.
This fall, 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects: math, English, history, biology. But there’s another subject that’s been sneaking into school...
The Christina School District will phase out its use of school resource officers at middle schools, and replace them with constables. Following a heated debate at a meeting earlier this month, the Christina school...
Remote learning during the pandemic was a nightmare for some students, but others have stuck with it, new data shows. Just over 600,000 public school students attended fully virtual schools in the 2024-25 school year,...
Colorado Homeschool Enrichment, a program with 48 campuses in Colorado, will not offer publicly funded classes for home-schoolers this year.
DPSCD's proficiency rates on the 2026 M-STEP suggest the changes the district have made are yielding continued improvement, researchers say.
The bill seeks to keep all special education, postsecondary, Native American, and elementary and secondary education activities within the agency.
Community college officials now oppose bills to expand access to bachelor’s degrees after California lawmakers made last-minute changes to the legislation, which officials say will create more barriers to offering...
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Wednesday to work on pathways for students to earn bachelor’s degrees in three years. Such a program could have college students take about 90...
The Association of Clovis Educators (ACE), which is backed by the California Teachers Association, last week filed an intervention petition with the state labor board in hopes of forcing an election among Clovis Unified...
By approving the policy Thursday, the State University System of Florida’s board effectively shut undocumented students out of its 12 institutions.
As teenagers return to school this fall, a new report suggests that many of them are moving through adolescence without the experiences that help prepare them for adulthood, activities like a part-time job, a club, a...
Results of the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress show many students continue to struggle in reading.
The school board voted to close nine schools last year, and 27 were recently being evaluated to determine whether they should "remain operational." The post New Miami-Dade superintendent pauses look at closing 27...