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Why is enrollment across DC-area school districts falling?

With enrollment trends declining, and projections expecting that to continue, the Prince William County School Board decided to nix plans for what it hoped would one day become its 14th high school. The post Why is...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Schools spend billions on AI, but struggle to figure out what’s worth it

Educators and experts say districts are carrying much of the burden of vetting products on their own. The post Schools spend billions on AI, but struggle to figure out what’s worth it appeared first on District...

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Policy & Legislation
Opinion: Don’t Blink: Why NYC Reads Must Stay on Course

Nearly 25 years ago, I walked into the U.S. Department of Education at what felt like a remarkable moment in the history of reading instruction. The National Reading Panel had just been released, and for the first time...

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Budget & Finance
Thousands of LAUSD Workers Face Layoffs That Didn’t Have to Happen

On the brink of looming insolvency, Los Angeles Unified could have prevented its financial crisis by leaving vacated positions empty, making thousands of district employee layoffs unavoidable to address a $3.6 billion...

Education Dive
Leadership
College costs for families up 10% from last year, poll finds

Tuition, fees, housing and other costs averaged $34,019 in the 2025-26 academic year, per a new Sallie Mae and Ipsos report.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
A controversial Colorado education group was in danger of dissolving. A 2013 agreement just saved it.

Pikes Peak State College planned to drop its membership in a controversial public education group. Now, it will stay on for 10 more months.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Firms linked to 2 men convicted of public corruption have gotten campaign business from JB Pritzker and the CTU

The Chicago Teachers Union Center last May. The union and Gov. JB Pritzker each hired political firms connected to people convicted of corruption.

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Antitrust lawsuit against 32 colleges with early decision can proceed, judge rules

However, U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley dismissed the claims against Common App and other noncollege defendants.

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Memphis schools budget earns approval after more than a month of delay

Shelby County Commissioners voted 7-4 to approve the MSCS budget on Monday, over a week after classes had already started.

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Technology & AI
Trump Signs Order on Childhood Vaccines Against Medical Groups’ Guidance

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Free backpacks, supplies, haircuts: Newark groups host back-to-school giveaways

As Newark families prepare to head back to class, local groups across the city are hosting school supply giveaways.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Chicago Board of Elections rules on final challenges to school board candidacies

Candidates walk inside the Chicago Board of Elections Supersite in downtown Chicago to file paperwork on Monday, May 18, 2026. The board made its final rulings on petition challenges Tuesday.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Know a young musican? Chalkbeat’s back-to-school rap contest is here.

Cassidy Brown, known musically as c12, mixes one of his songs at Philadelphia's MilkBoy the Studio, where he is an intern.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
How did Indiana students do on a revised ILEARN this year?

Indiana released 2026 scores on the ILEARN test for English and math, as well as results from the IREAD and SAT, on Tuesday.

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Technology & AI
Opinion: As Students Head Back to School, Let’s Rethink What’s Success in Sex Education

As millions of young people head back to school this fall, parents are buying backpacks, teachers are preparing lesson plans, and policymakers are once again debating what belongs in the classroom. One topic will...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
School funding’s surprising U-shape, the future of work, digital tests, and more: A Chalkbeat Ideas roundup

Troy High School on April 24, 2026

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Indiana third grade reading scores surpass pre-pandemic levels on IREAD test

Third grade students in Warren Township read in summer school to focus on passing the IREAD exam in June 2025.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
How a Queens school transformed a local playground — and its students’ lives

Voyages Prep students Joseth Laiz (center) and Kamrin Jones (far left), helped spearhead the Playground Ninety basketball court project. They are with New York City Council member Shekar Krishnan at the playground's...

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Leadership
A Bad Jobs Report for Public Education

A version of this analysis originally appeared in the “Aldeman on Education” Substack. According to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, K-12 schools lost 50,000 workers from June to July. The...

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Leadership
NYC Reading Scores Sink, With Third Grade Proficiency Falling 14 points

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Reading scores sank in New York City last school year, with a nearly 14 percentage point decline among third...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Judge rules Virginia school board discriminated against Black students by restoring Confederate names

The Shenandoah County School Board must rename two schools after a federal court found its 2024 decision violated students' rights. The post Judge rules Virginia school board discriminated against Black students by...

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Policy & Legislation
The school year begins in LA with one big change

This year brings a new challenge for Armaghan Khan and many other teachers in the nation's second-largest school district: Ban screen time for younger students, and significantly limit it for older kids. The post The...

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Technology & AI
More Dads Are Taking Paid Paternity Leave

A.J. Johnson’s oldest son was born in 2019, the year before residents of his home state of Washington could receive benefits from its newly passed paid family leave program. Johnson, a full-time firefighter, had to save...

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
Most 4-year graduates work in same state as their alma mater, report finds

States looking to grow their college-educated workforce should focus on "homegrown talent” over wooing outside workers, according to the analysis.

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Budget & Finance
‘What Did We Do Wrong Now?’: Rural Iowa Schools Weigh Impact of ESA Expansion

As Iowa’s Education Savings Account program continues to expand to include all K-12 families, rural public school districts are still trying to determine how the scholarships will affect their classrooms, budgets and...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Marion County Election Board removes Lindsey Cornett from IPS school board ballot after challenge

The Marion County Election Board met Monday to vote on challenges to the candidacy of IPS school board District 4 candidates Lindsey Cornett and Chris Bultman.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Colorado district will eliminate Bible-based content in new reading curriculum, officials say

District officials in the Montezuma-Cortez district will remove Christian faith-based content from elementary reading lessons provided by the Houston school district in Texas.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
‘Have a great day’: School 51 welcomes students to the new year with cheers and high fives

Student Titan Jones gives a high five to a staff member at James Russell Lowell Montessori School 51 on the first day of school in Indianapolis.

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Haverford settles with group accusing college of fostering antisemitism

Under the settlement terms, the private college will bar discrimination against Zionist, Jewish and Israeli students and employees.

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Chicago school board to weigh adding ballot questions about new revenue sources

The Chicago Board of Education is poised to consider two nonbonding referendums to seek symbolic support for more state and city funding from city voters in November.