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Every K-12 education story we've tracked, newest first. Budget, technology, safety, infrastructure, policy, and leadership news from districts across America.

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Technology & AI
Tap your cellphone: NYC piloting digital student OMNY cards this fall for 7 schools

Student OMNY cards from the 2025-26 school year.

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Leadership
Princess Moss Elected NEA President With Votes From 50% of Assembly Members

Princess Moss was elected president of the National Education Association during its annual representative assembly on Sunday. She was previously vice president of the nation’s largest teachers union and a music teacher...

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Technology & AI
Iowa school districts quietly agreed to new limits on undocumented students’ course access

Students work on a house model during their Building Industry Technology Academy class at Valencia High School in Placentia, California, in 2019.

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Technology & AI
From Norway to Wisconsin, Children Want to Be Social Media Influencers When They Grow Up

A second grader in Norway drew a YouTube logo when my colleagues and I asked what they wanted to be when they grow up. When we asked why, the child explained that YouTubers are famous and make lots of money. When we...

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Technology & AI
A Restored Detroit Rail Station Looks to the Future, Offering Training for Teens

The teenagers at the entrepreneurship class at a new Detroit Boys and Girls Club had ideas for a business or product they could create.  Now they had to refine them and think about how to pitch them to investors or...

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Budget & Finance
New Jersey Invests Record Money in Preschool, But Serving Multilingual Learners is Another Story

Peter Rosario has spent years watching his teachers help Spanish-speaking preschoolers sound out English words at La Casa de Don Pedro, a Newark-based nonprofit organization that offers support for immigrant families...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: The College Cost Fog Machine: We Need a New Transparency Compact

A family shopping for college today knows more about the cost of a mortgage than the real price of a college degree. That confusion isn’t only a technical problem inside financial aid offices. It’s a public trust...

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Leadership
Elementary Principals Are Getting a Crash Course in How Young Kids Learn Best

When Joel Francik became principal of Central Elementary School in 2019, all of his prior education experience had been in middle school — first as a teacher, then as an assistant principal.  He wanted the job, he...

Budget & Finance
Week in review: Cuts at Johns Hopkins, PennWest and St. Louis University

We’re rounding up recent stories, from two states teaming up to create three-year bachelor’s degrees to policy and leadership developments out of Florida.

Technology & AI
Behind Northland’s closure — and the bid to keep its mission alive

The college transformed in the 1970s into an ecologically minded liberal arts institution. Now former faculty want to sustain that ethos in a smaller version.

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Technology & AI
Mississippi Focuses on Boosting Middle School Students’ Reading Scores

Fourth grade literacy gains earned Mississippi national acclaim. But that achievement tapers off as students advance to higher grades.  Lawmakers are putting millions toward changing that.  Mississippi has...

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Budget & Finance
California School Libraries Blindsided by ‘Catastrophic’ Budget Cut

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially...

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Technology & AI
Native Hawaiian Teens Learn To ‘Make Change’ for the Islands

A heavy, authoritative thud echoed through the Hawai‘i House chamber as Speaker Rilynn Kawaikoʻolilihilihiokalikolehua Perez brought down the gavel. Student delegates settled into their seats, shuffling papers and...

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Policy & Legislation
State Museum Debuts Exhibit Highlighting SC’s Role in Revolutionary War

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Soon after Patriots defended Charles Town at Fort Moultrie in 1776, the regiment received a flag embroidered with acorns, a battle drum and an early version of the crescent that would eventually adorn...

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Budget & Finance
Michigan lawmakers OK increased student funding and investments in literacy

The Michigan Legislature on Friday approved a $22.9 billion education budget that includes increased funding for students, particularly those with the greatest needs.

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Technology & AI
California Bill Aims To Enlist Educators and Parents in Preventing Youth Suicide

Before Michaella Huck graduated from high school in 2018, she struggled with depression and anxiety and didn’t know where to get help. She’d hear stories of students who died on “suicide hill” in her Los Angeles...

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Technology & AI
What AI Earbuds Can’t Replace: The Value of Learning Another Language

Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai Japanese. Even better, their reply in their native tongue comes through perfectly clear...

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Policy & Legislation
Conservative law firm sues Denver Public Schools over its school board voting map

Denver Public Schools is Colorado’s largest school district. A conservative law firm is suing the district over its voting map.

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Policy & Legislation
Here’s what happened to 3 Colorado schools when state lawmakers reined in a controversial education group

Students work in the chemistry lab at Ascend College Prep, which because of a recent state law change switched authorizers.

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Budget & Finance
Education groups sue for access to nearly $2B in research funds

A lawsuit alleges the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Management and Budget are withholding the funds unlawfully.

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School Safety
NJ lawmakers approve extra mental health support for schools

New Jersey schools would have new tools to help students struggling with mental health issues under legislation passed by state lawmakers Tuesday. Gov. Mikie Sherrill is expected to sign the measure.

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Leadership
This Decatur Central teacher’s marketing class helped launch rebranded district logos

Jessica Sandvold teaches marketing at Decatur Central. Her students helped launch the district's logo rebrand.

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Budget & Finance
Philadelphia audit finds school district owes former employees $2.8 million

A new audit from the city controller found the district owes former employees $2.8 million and had lost track of several expensive pieces of equipment.

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Technology & AI
Opinion: While Washington Debates Screen Time, Many Students Lack Access Altogether

Earlier this year, U.S. senators convened to grill experts on how social media, smartphones and other technologies are affecting children’s mental health and learning. That conversation has since helped fuel a new wave...

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Leadership
Detroit school district releases 2026-27 calendar

DPSCD's 2026-27 school year will begin Aug. 24. Pictured, a student puts away her backpack in a locker at Pasteur Elementary School during the first day of school on August 25, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan.

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Technology & AI
Before Brown v. Board, Another Segregation Case Changed Public Schools

This story was originally reported by Nadra Nittle of The 19th. Meet Nadra and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. To understand why five California families took their fight against segregated...

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Budget & Finance
‘Professional degree’ list is expanded. But education still didn’t make the cut.

The designation comes with an increased federal student loan cap of $200,000 for graduate programs.

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Budget & Finance
Florida state board bans undocumented students from college system

One analysis estimates that the policy could cost the 28-institution system $15 million a year in lost tuition and fee revenue. 

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Policy & Legislation
All Colorado school districts must now have a cellphone policy. Here’s what the 20 largest adopted.

A Colorado law passed last year required school districts to pass cellphone policies but did not mandate a ban.

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Policy & Legislation
What SCOTUS didn’t say about transgender athletes — and what the ruling means for schools and students

Demonstrators in support of and opposed to transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 13, 2026, as the justices heard arguments in two cases challenging state bans. On...