Demonstrators in support of and opposed to transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 13, 2026, as the justices heard arguments in two cases challenging state bans. On...
A Colorado grant will help restore a statewide FAFSA tool.
The former University of Alabama leader faced a delayed system-level vote and right-wing pushback over his past support for diversity efforts.
Rural America has a healthcare crisis hiding in plain sight. Hospitals are closing. Nurses are retiring faster than they can be replaced. And the students most likely to stay and serve their communities — kids growing...
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a state takeover board's authority after Memphis school officials said it could delay the start of the school year or even force building closures as the district...
Rayleen Laloi, a student at the Brooklyn Institute for Liberal Arts at the Brooklyn Public Library on June 11, shares her experience about working on an episode on her school's merger for P.S. Weekly.
The U.S. Department of Education may no longer be able to fully support students, it says in an internal report that lays bare the full extent of the Trump Administration’s first round of government cuts. The department...
The Education Department alleged that Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools' policy not to disclose a student's transgender status even to parents violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The post...
The "Future Ready SLPS" report outlines an overhaul of the city’s public school system in the face of decades of declining enrollment and ballooning costs of salaries, benefits and transportation along with aging...
Across nine counties in central Indiana, more school board candidates identified as Republicans than Democrats.
A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics and public policy. Katie Arnold-Ratliff wrote a cover story for New York Magazine criticizing...
Illinois Department of Early Childhood Secretary Teresa Ramos answers a question from an attendee at the Northwestern University Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago's research conference in Chicago on June 25,...
An audience member listens to a closing panel of speakers at Northwestern University's Early Childhood Research Alliance in Chicago's research conference on the university's Chicago campus on June 25, 2026.
Tennessee student reading scores are up in a critical third grade test, but students are losing proficiency as they move through middle school.
Under Secretary Nicholas Kent said Tuesday that the agency needs to make the process for college mergers, acquisitions and even closures “a lot easier.”
From left, election commissioners Laura Kotelman, Marsiel Hernandez and June Brown hear an oral argument from Ed Mullen.
Young women demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court upheld state laws barring transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's school sports. The much anticipated decision came on the last day...
Western Colorado University has a food pantry called the Mountaineer Marketplace with a fridge, cabinets, and shelves full of food. The pantry has helped the school earn a state Basic Needs Campus designation.
The move comes as more colleges are going back to requiring standardized tests for admissions.
The Browning School, a college preparatory school for boys, sits in Manhattan, New York City. A new federal school choice program could help students pay tuition at private schools, though taypayers will first need to...
States can block transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, handing the Trump administration a victory in its effort to enforce such restrictions. ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposed budget would increase public school funding statewide by more than $660 million, but lawmakers are still negotiating the final budget.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Speaker Julie Menin announce a handshake agreement on the city's $125.8 billion budget. The deal boosts college savings accounts for all public school kindergartners and restores a slew...
Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says a school's appearance on a list of small schools with low enrollment and high costs doesn't mean it might close. The district is looking for solutions to boost enrollment at the...
The Supreme Court ruled today that President Donald J. Trump exceeded his authority with his long-shot attempt to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to undocumented parents or those without permanent...
After a power failure knocked out electricity in parts of Lānaʻi High and Elementary School in 2021, the state set up temporary electrical lines to get the lights back on. Five years later, the so-called temporary lines...
Colleges and K-12 schools can determine eligibility for women's and girls' sports teams based on "biological sex," the court ruled.
Has your kid ever used artificial intelligence to answer homework questions that their teacher used artificial intelligence to write? It’s possible, according to a report from the Georgia Department of Audits...
As I climbed the steps to the stage on the morning of my junior high graduation, I felt my heart racing. Just a few feet away stood a microphone and hundreds of eyes waiting for me to begin. As the commencement speaker,...