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. ...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Experts discussed loan caps, federal probes and other shifts at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ annual meeting.
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...
The Indianapolis Public Education Corporation chose a new executive director on Wednesday.
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...
Commonwealth Charter Academy has acquired a 32,000 square-foot building in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard.
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.
Jude Julien (pictured in the upper row, center) teaches at the Virtual Innovators Academy, the city's only fully virtual public high school.
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...
School districts and community organizations are hosting events to offer free backpacks and school supplies.
A crowded field of 35 people are running for five open seats on the Detroit school board.
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...
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...
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...
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....
A Lumina Foundation and Gallup survey found widespread cost concerns — but most parents still want their children to pursue postsecondary education.
Lawyers from the Heritage Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom will help defend the Elizabeth School District in a lawsuit over school library book removals.
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...
Students at CICS West Belden school work in the classroom at the Chicago charter school.
Together4Students recruits fellows ages 16 to 25 to train them to be education advocates as the state takeover of MSCS stalls in court.
A new class of principals, directors, and assistant superintendents will lead Newark’s public schools this upcoming school year.
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...
The highly selective medical school is the third in the University of California system to face such an accusation from the federal agency.
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...