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Technology & AI
Denver District Accused of Keeping Kids In English Learner Program Far Too Long

Updated When Jen Hanson, a veteran multilingual educator, first arrived at Denver’s Cherry Creek School District in June 2025, she said she quickly suspected the district was creating its own rules for moving students...

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
NYC is acting faster on special education legal orders but still misses most deadlines

Manhattan federal Judge Loretta Preska signed a court order in 2023 requiring to the city to complete dozens of reforms to more quickly provide special education services and payments to families. The city has yet to...

The 74
Technology & AI
Opinion: How Tracking Portrait of a Graduate Leads to Learning That Matters

Standardized testing has long been the gold standard of student success. Large-scale assessments give districts a big-picture view of student progress, offering convenient data points to compare performance, identify...

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Technology & AI
Major Virtual Tutoring Provider Shuts Down; Experts Cite Lack of Evidence

As students head back to class across the country, Varsity Tutors for Schools, one of the nation’s largest providers, has gone out of business. In a shareholder letter last week, Chuck Cohn, CEO of Nerdy, Varsity’s...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Rising computer costs threaten school-issued laptop programs

COVID funding provided underfunded Philly-area schools with laptops. ‘RAMageddon’ might send them back in time as the worldwide computer memory shortage drives up the cost of laptops. The post Rising computer costs...

District Admin
Leadership
Tough choices face Black parents when schools struggle

Black Texas families weigh whether to send their children to schools with more academic resources — but potentially fewer of their values. The post Tough choices face Black parents when schools struggle appeared first...

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Leadership
Opinion: Miami’s Decision to End Universal School Lunch Harms More Than Just Hungry Kids

 For the past several years in Miami public schools, every student — including my own children — could stand in the same cafeteria line, carry the same tray and eat lunch for free. But on July 22, the Miami-Dade...

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Technology & AI
Absenteeism Is a Major Problem. So Why Can’t Schools Agree on How to Measure It?

It’s 2026. Satellites connect to devices in our pockets, artificial intelligence algorithms can drive cars and scan X-rays, and Homer’s 3,000-year-old poem is the basis for the summer’s hottest movie. But there’s always...

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Newark piloted the state’s cellphone ban with positive results. Here are lingering concerns.

Newark piloted a cellphone ban last school year. The experience was positive in several respects, but teachers and parents still have concerns.

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
How Sonoma State saved academic programs slated for closure

After wide-ranging academic cuts, the public institution’s leaders worked with faculty to make some previously doomed programs more efficient and viable.

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Week in review: The conservative vision for higher ed

We’re rounding up recent stories, from a request from U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to cuts at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Education Dive
Leadership
Elite colleges are returning to the SAT and ACT. Will others follow?

Top-ranked colleges and the Trump administration are embracing the exams, but that doesn’t mean test-optional policies are falling out of favor everywhere. 

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Policy & Legislation
Nearly 15 Years After Student Discipline Reform, School Suspensions in Mass. Are Falling. Are Emergency Removals Taking Their Place?

In 2012, after child advocates spent years trying to reduce punitive suspensions in schools, Massachusetts passed sweeping education reforms under Chapter 222, kickstarting a longstanding policy shift away from...

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Technology & AI
California Expands Lunch Program That Pairs Schools With Farms

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In school lunchrooms around Lake Tahoe, students line up for a red, hairy fruit called a rambutan. On pozole day, they shout, “We want...

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Leadership
LAUSD’s Youngest Students Will Start a Screen-Free School Year. Here’s What Parents Need to Know

Screen time limits for Los Angeles Unified School District’s youngest students begin in August. “My hope and expectation is that most families will see a dramatic reduction in screen time during the school day, but also...

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Technology & AI
When Sex Education Funding Is Taken Away, Young People Lose a Safe Space

On June 26, Children’s Aid was preparing to continue summer sexual health and youth development programming in schools, foster care settings and community organizations across New York City. By the end of the day, the...

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Despite state funding increase, gap to adequately fund schools widens in most Illinois districts

Illinois state lawmakers approved a $350 million increase in education funding this summer, but most school districts are further away from reaching their funding adequacy goals than they were a year ago.

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Colorado public colleges and universities try to keep student services safe from budget ‘belt tightening’

Colorado State University Fort Collins cut $54 million from its budget cut amid financial concerns that include flat operations funding from the state and less federal support for research.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Voting records show IPS board candidate Lindsey Cornett did not meet requirement to run as a Democrat

Two candidates for IPS school board have had their party affiliations challenged.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
NYC reading scores sink, with third grade proficiency falling 14 points

NYC students’ reading proficiency fell 6 percentage points in grades 3-8, with steeper drops in early grades, as officials investigate dramatic swings in test scores.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
These Chicago school board incumbents face no opponents. What does that mean for voters?

Ellen Rosenfeld, left, and Angel Gutierrez, right, are current elected members of the Chicago Board of Education, and they're running unopposed this year's election.

The 74
Leadership
Opinion: Students Are Anxious – And It’s No Surprise, Since We Teach Them to Be That Way

Temporary anxiety can often surface before the first day of school. Sometimes, that can help kids get in the right mindset for a big day. But when anxiety becomes a constant feature of children’s and teenagers’ days,...

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Technology & AI
New Mexico Judge Orders Meta to Pay $567M for Youth Harm Abatement Fund

New Mexico First Judicial District Judge Bryan Biedscheid at the end of the day Thursday issued a ruling in the state’s pending case against social media giant Meta, ordering the company to pay $567 million for an...

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Infrastructure
‘Nobody Feels Good, Nobody’s Learning’: High Temperatures Disrupt School Days

For nearly two years, teacher Isabelle Ouyang and her colleagues have dealt with the presence of construction workers, shuffling between classrooms, stress over schedules, and a host of disruptive renovations. Ouyang...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: Making School Lunches Healthy Is Great – If Kids Will Eat What’s on the Tray

Shortly after being named America’s unhealthiest city in 2009, Huntington, West Virginia, gained national attention when British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver arrived to film the first season of his reality TV series Food...

District Admin
Policy & Legislation
Trump administration moves to deregulate Head Start, opening door for sweeping change

The Trump administration is proposing significant changes that would diminish the program's federal standards and give states and parents more control. The post Trump administration moves to deregulate Head Start,...

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Leadership
Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on Biden’s Education Legacy

After nearly two years out of the limelight, the Biden family has returned to the political conversation this summer. Joe Biden announced last month that he will soon release a memoir of his time in office. That volume...

Technology & AI
Minnesota State Mankato to undergo layoffs, hike tuition amid $22M shortfall

Despite strong enrollment, the public university said it’s facing a large budget hole due to stagnant state funding.

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
The Heritage Foundation releases sweeping model bill to overhaul higher ed

The conservative think tank framed the proposal as a way for state lawmakers to “codify the principles” of the Trump administration’s higher ed compact.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Detroit school district addresses school cleanliness, special education, and more in community meeting

DPSCD Superintendent Nikolai Vitti listens to an audience member during a community meeting Aug. 7 at Renaissance High School in Detroit.