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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...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Free school supplies, backpacks, and haircuts: 2026 back-to-school events in the Denver metro area

School districts and community organizations are hosting events to offer free backpacks and school supplies.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Here are the 35 people running for the Detroit school board

A crowded field of 35 people are running for five open seats on the Detroit school board.

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School Safety
Opinion: Unjust Child Welfare System Targeted Buttegieg’s Family — Like Too Many Others

When Child Protective Services and a police officer showed up at the home of former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, he assumed, as many people do, that this was an abuse of an otherwise well-meaning and...

District Admin
Policy & Legislation
St Louis-area school districts are losing students. A new task force thinks consolidation could help

The Missouri State Board of Education is expected to vote on the accreditation statuses of over 500 districts across the state next year. The post St Louis-area school districts are losing students. A new task force...

District Admin
Technology & AI
A $40,000-per-year AI school with no teachers is opening in Oklahoma this August

An AI-powered, billionaire-backed chain of private schools intends to educate students with two hours of virtual learning a day and entrepreneurship workshops. The post A $40,000-per-year AI school with no teachers is...

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Technology & AI
America’s Trillion-Dollar School System: 5 Trends Explain Where the Money Goes

In April, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that the 50 states and Washington, D.C., took in $1 trillion in federal, state and local revenue for K-12 public education in the 2023-24 school year. One....

Education Dive
Leadership
Out of reach? Adults grade colleges on their affordability.

A Lumina Foundation and Gallup survey found widespread cost concerns — but most parents still want their children to pursue postsecondary education.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
2 conservative law firms join defense team in Elizabeth school district’s book ban lawsuit

Lawyers from the Heritage Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom will help defend the Elizabeth School District in a lawsuit over school library book removals.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Detroit school board’s chair and vice chair will not seek reelection in November

DPSCD board chair LaTrice McClendon, left, and vice chair Corletta Vaughn, are not running for reelection. They are shown in a June 2025 meeting reading a statement about a district student who had been detained by...

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Technology & AI
70 years after Brown, schools remain separate by race and class. One advocate says integration still matters.

Students at CICS West Belden school work in the classroom at the Chicago charter school.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
A new Memphis group is pushing for school reform via state takeover. Who are they?

Together4Students recruits fellows ages 16 to 25 to train them to be education advocates as the state takeover of MSCS stalls in court.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Newark Public Schools shuffles leadership districtwide with 9 new principals set to start this fall

A new class of principals, directors, and assistant superintendents will lead Newark’s public schools this upcoming school year.

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Budget & Finance
Mental Health Programs Could Bear the Brunt of $600M Federal Cuts to Texas Schools

As Texas schools face at least $600 million in federal funding cuts, multiple mental health programs, particularly those implemented in response to the pandemic and mass shootings, are at risk of losing funding. School...

Policy & Legislation
DOJ alleges UC San Diego illegally uses race in medical school admissions

The highly selective medical school is the third in the University of California system to face such an accusation from the federal agency.

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Technology & AI
Opinion: Students With Disabilities Are Spending More Time in Mainstream Classrooms

States have made steady progress including students with disabilities in mainstream classrooms, an independent federal report finds, but lawmakers and advocates worry that headway will be lost as federal special...