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...
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...
Civil rights advocates say students of color will be harmed by the removal of the tool used to investigate racial discrimination.
More than two dozen state education employees and lawyers knew that Riverstone Academy planned to use religious curriculum before it opened in 2025.
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.
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.
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Better financial communication can bolster transparency, experts said at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ conference.
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.
In a wide-ranging memo, they also directed federal agencies to experiment with models other than peer-review for assessing research proposals.
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.
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.
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...
Desks and chairs arranged in classroom at high school
Pueblo Classical Academy won't re-open in the fall, leaders announced this month.
The National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and other agencies cut awards over terms like “diversity” and “health equity.”
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...
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...
The four remaining candidates for Michigan governor agree that improving literacy is a priority. They face off in Aug. 4 primaries.
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.
The Republican-led Title IX Clarification Act would narrow the definition under the sex-based anti-discrimination law, codifying a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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. ...