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Education Dive
Technology & AI
3 dozen of Harvard’s peers back its court fight against the Trump administration

Yale, Columbia, Brown and a raft of other institutions warned of damages to the national research system from “draconian” research funding cuts.

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School Safety
One Year Later, 988 Still Doesn’t Have a Hotline for LGBTQ+ Youth

During Pride month last year, almost 70,000 LGBTQ+ young people sought specialized help from 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline.  That was the last time they were able to do so.  As of today, it’s...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Students at Newark’s newest high school will have a temporary home in September

New Media High School freshmen will go to Bard High School Early College while work continues on their permanent home, the former Dayton Street School.

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Budget & Finance
What to Know About the Texas ‘Robin Hood’ School Funding System

A new legal challenge to Texas’ school funding system renews questions about what methods state leaders should use to ensure students in low-income districts and those attending campuses in more affluent...

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Infrastructure
Opinion: How One California County Is Building a Childcare System From the Ground Up

In 2020, voters in California’s Alameda County made a remarkable decision. Rather than accept generations of underinvestment in young children, they chose to build something families had never truly had: an early...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Sally the robot was coming to a New York school. Then the plug was pulled.

Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage. The post Sally the robot was coming to a New York school. Then the plug was pulled....

District Admin
Leadership
Universities can use conservative-favored entrance exam as Texas eyes wider use, agency chief says

Texas may expand use of the Classical Learning Test despite a new report finding less evidence its scores predict college success than the SAT or ACT. The post Universities can use conservative-favored entrance exam as...

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Technology & AI
Oklahoma Data Shows Lack of Fully Trained Teachers Entering the Classroom

OKLAHOMA CITY — State leaders say they’re still pursuing solutions to reverse a yearslong decline in traditionally trained teachers entering the classroom, all while emergency certified educators continue to fill...

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Leadership
Settling Scores: Experts Debate Why AP Performance Has Soared

A few years ago, education experts noticed that scores were climbing upwards on a number of Advanced Placement tests. The increases, measured on some of the program’s most popular assessments, were as significant as...

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
Inside the federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

In court documents, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and others shared which words they used to target grants.

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Week in review: Is a new era ahead for federally funded research?

We’re rounding up recent stories, from civil rights groups slamming a regulatory change to a ruling against the administration’s approach to grant cuts. 

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Technology & AI
Head Start, Explained. How Changes to Early Education Program Affect California Families

Head Start, the federal program providing free early education for low-income children, has benefited from strong bipartisan support since its 1965 inception, withstanding funding cuts and political turbulence across 11...

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Budget & Finance
As Diesel Prices Soared, Arkansas District Saved With Electric School Buses

Five years ago, diesel costs averaged $2.68 a gallon. This spring, that more than doubled to over $5.50. That’s not just a headline; it’s a real problem for anyone operating on a tight budget. But for school...

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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...

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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.