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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.

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
Trump officials plan to shift more research funding to individual scientists

In a wide-ranging memo, they also directed federal agencies to experiment with models other than peer-review for assessing research proposals. 

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Facing state scrutiny, Memphis schools intensify efforts to reduce chronic absenteeism

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.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Education Department limits civil rights investigations into racial disparities in schools

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.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Union representing Chicago school support staff makes Board of Education endorsements

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...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
The fight for control over New York’s charter schools is escalating

Desks and chairs arranged in classroom at high school

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Second public school closes following Colorado law change aimed at controversial education group

Pueblo Classical Academy won't re-open in the fall, leaders announced this month.

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
Ctrl+F: Federal agencies used keyword searches to nix grants en masse, court records show

The National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and other agencies cut awards over terms like “diversity” and “health equity.”

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Budget & Finance
California Literacy Investments Are Mostly Working

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...

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Technology & AI
NC Budget Offers Rural Childcare Businesses Financial Help They’ve Sought for Years

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...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
From literacy to school choice: How Michigan’s governor candidates compare on education

The four remaining candidates for Michigan governor agree that improving literacy is a priority. They face off in Aug. 4 primaries.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
IPEC board member Edward Rangel joins The Mind Trust as chief program officer

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.

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
House education committee advances bill to define sex as ‘biological’

The Republican-led Title IX Clarification Act would narrow the definition under the sex-based anti-discrimination law, codifying a recent Supreme Court ruling.

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School Safety
Opinion: I’m a Teen Athlete. We’re Missing Something Important About Concussions

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. ...

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Budget & Finance
Indianapolis Picks National Charter Leader To Run Charter-Public School Board

The groundbreaking new board overseeing the Indianapolis Public Schools and charter schools in the city has hired the head of a major national charter school organization as its first executive director. Karega Rausch,...

District Admin
Budget & Finance
Texas’ longstanding “Robin Hood” school finance system will face a new legal challenge

Midland ISD school trustees argue they have minimal control over local taxes and can’t properly serve students as a recapture system redistributes millions of the district’s revenue. The post Texas’ longstanding “Robin...

District Admin
Leadership
Ohio schools are among the most segregated in the nation, per report

A recent report from the Segregation Tracking Project and education advocacy group Brown’s Promise finds Ohio’s public schools are the fifth most racially segregated in the U.S.—behind New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: School Accountability Is Back: Here’s Why It’s Key to Restoring Public Trust

You probably know that it’s been a choppy semiquincentennial summer here in the District of Columbia. The National Mall’s murky, smelly reflecting pool and the sparsely attended American State Fair made national news....

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Leadership
Report: Black Students’ Exclusion From High-Quality Math Has Dire Consequences

Black students have been excluded from high-quality mathematics for generations — with dire outcomes academically and professionally, a California-based math equity group found.  Just Equation’s recent...

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
‘A more defensive posture’: College finance leaders navigate a turbulent policy world

Experts discussed loan caps, federal probes and other shifts at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ annual meeting.

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Leadership
In First School Visit, President Urges Atlanta Crowd to Support ‘Trump Accounts’

MARIETTA, Ga. — In his first public school visit since taking office last year, President Donald Trump stopped at an Atlanta-area high school Wednesday to promote his administration’s effort to kickstart savings...

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
IPEC chooses charter school policy leader to guide its work

The Indianapolis Public Education Corporation chose a new executive director on Wednesday.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Chicago Public Schools could take another crack at overhauling its middle management

Macquline King speaks to reporters on March 30, 2026, after the Board of Education voted to name her the district’s permanent CEO beginning in July. King's proposal to overhaul the district's network structure last fall...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Pennsylvania’s largest cyber charter school expands real estate footprint in Philadelphia

Commonwealth Charter Academy has acquired a 32,000 square-foot building in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard.

Education Dive
Technology & AI
Appeals court rejects Education Department’s bid to delay borrower defense decisions

The ruling is the latest in the long-running Sweet v. McMahon settlement, which promises timely decisions on borrower defense claims or automatic debt relief.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
At NYC’s first all-virtual high school, this award-winning teacher knows it’s not ‘one-size-fits-all’

Jude Julien (pictured in the upper row, center) teaches at the Virtual Innovators Academy, the city's only fully virtual public high school.

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Leadership
7 Jaw-Dropping Experiences at the World’s Largest Children’s Museum

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Technology & AI
In a Mississippi School District With Strict Gender Rules, Trans Students and Families Push to Be Heard

BILOXI, Miss. — When nine young adults tossed their mortarboards into the air at the Little Biloxi Theatre on June 20, it wasn’t their first time graduating from high school. After an emotional celebration that honored...