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Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Where the 2026 Tennessee gubernatorial candidates stand on education issues

Tennessee voters will head back to the polls on Nov. 3 to elect a new governor who will shape education policy for the next four years.

The 74
Technology & AI
Opinion: When Parents Stop Expecting More: The Missing Variable in Academic Decline

American education has spent decades searching for explanations for declining achievement. Poverty, inequality, school funding, curriculum, technology, teacher quality and the effects of the pandemic all matter. ...

Education Dive
Budget & Finance
Colleges made deep staff cuts while adding tenure-track faculty last year

The latest survey of higher education employees from CUPA-HR found the biggest spike in tenure-track professors since at least 2016.

EdSource
Technology & AI
California maintains school vaccine rules despite Trump order

Despite a new executive order from President Donald Trump regarding the childhood immunization schedule, California officials affirmed that the state will maintain its existing vaccination requirements for students.

EdSurge
Leadership
EdSurge Welcomes Top Journalists and Educators to Advisory Board

Bringing together award-winning reporters and leading educators, the board will provide strategic guidance on newsroom priorities and emerging issues ...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Denver’s test scores are up, but not high enough to meet all of the superintendent’s strategic plan goals

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero listens to school board members as they speak during a board retreat Monday. Marrero's first strategic plan, released in 2022, called for increasing test scores by 10...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Philadelphia to make digital hall pass and student tracking system available at all schools

School safety officers receive training at Philadelphia's Abraham Lincoln High School. The School District of Philadelphia is rolling out several new safety initiatives, including a digital hall pass available to all...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Philly schools ask communities to help shape transition plan as controversial closures move ahead

School district officials announced they are opening applications for school-specific transition committees starting on Aug. 31.

Education Dive
Leadership
Broward College trustees ordered to delay vote on firing president

Torey Alston sued the board and won a ruling requiring trustees to attend mediation to attempt to work out an employment contract dispute with him. 

Chalkbeat
Infrastructure
Back-to-school: 6 things to watch in Newark Public Schools this year

New board members and school leaders, delayed state test scores, and aging buildings are among the developments to watch this upcoming school year.

EdSource
Technology & AI
Former LAUSD Supt. Beutner agrees to compromise Prop. 28 arts education bill

Former Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner said Thursday that he will support AB 2440 — the proposal seeking to clarify rules in the Proposition 28 arts education initiative — after agreeing on amendments...

EdSource
Budget & Finance
California to stock emergency supply of rescue inhalers at all public schools

California will supply rescue inhalers for students with asthma at all of the state’s public district and charter schools, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday. Funding for the three-year “School Albuterol...

EdSource
Budget & Finance
Only 12 minutes to eat? Rocklin High’s schedule gives students tight lunch break

A new, tighter schedule at Rocklin High School in Placer County has cut students’ lunch period one day a week to what is thought to be among the shortest in the state: 12 minutes, Capital Public Radio reported. “I had...

EdSource
Infrastructure
Classroom interpreters in Clovis Unified agree to first union contract

Earlier this month, a group of unionized American Sign Language interpreters in Clovis Unified School District reached their first contract with the district after two years of negotiations, The Fresno Bee reported. The...

EdSource
Technology & AI
Palo Alto Unified sued over 2025 student field trip to local mosque

A group of parents and former students of the Palo Alto Unified School District filed a civil rights lawsuit against the district regarding a 2025 school-sponsored field trip to a mosque where students learned about...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
NYC teachers: How are you teaching about 9/11 on its 25th anniversary?

The annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on Sept. 11, 2024 in New York City.

The 74
School Safety
Higher Grades and Belonging: Trans Students Thrive When Supported by Teachers

Supportive teachers can make a world of difference for transgender students, influencing their sense of safety and academic engagement — often in the face of discrimination and bullying — according to new research from...

The 74
Technology & AI
NYC Mayor Sues City Council Over Law Giving $10,000 Bonuses to Paraprofessionals

Mayor Zohran Mamdani sued the New York City Council on Wednesday, hours after a bill giving classroom paraprofessionals $10,000 in bonus pay became law.  The lawsuit claims that the council’s approval of bonuses...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Pennsylvania still hasn’t passed a school cellphone ban. Some Philly principals aren’t waiting.

Some Philadelphia schools ban cellphones for the entire day. Others allow teens to scroll TikTok at lunch.

The 74
Budget & Finance
Opinion: Head Start Changed My Life. The Proposed Reforms Would Gut the Program

I am a product of Head Start. Before I understood federal funding, program performance standards or the complicated systems that make Head Start possible, I understood what it meant to be a Head Start child. Years...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Utah’s largest school district just welcomed students back for the final time. Here’s how it will soon split into 3.

By next fall, the Alpine School District—the state’s largest district—will split into three: the newly named Lake Mountain, Aspen Peaks and Timpanogos school districts. The post Utah’s largest school district just...

District Admin
Leadership
Florida school board at the center of culture wars loses conservative majority

Democrats say the flip in Sarasota County indicates voters want education to move on from political fights over social issues, while conservatives point to their wins. The post Florida school board at the center of...

The 74
Leadership
Opinion: Dismantling the Dyslexia Industrial Complex

The rapid rise of dyslexia in public discourse reflects a long-overdue shift in education. For decades, students with persistent reading difficulties were misunderstood, mislabeled or overlooked entirely. Increased...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Work first, college degree later: Indiana wants students to consider a new postsecondary model

The campus of Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021.

The 74
Technology & AI
Student Journalists: AI Is Changing Our Work — And Not For the Better

In the nearly four years since generative artificial intelligence began colonizing the academic lives of teens, it has changed the experience of school for millions of young people. Perhaps no group has watched their...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Chicago Board of Education 101: Know the basics of the soon-to-be elected board guiding Chicago Public Schools

The Chicago Board of Education will be fully elected for the first time in several decades this November.

Education Dive
Technology & AI
DOJ charges 17 in Iran-backed hacking campaign against US colleges, others

Officials allege the Mabna Institute was behind an effort to steal research from American universities, companies and government agencies.

EdSource
Technology & AI
A family separation could not stop three California siblings from getting UC diplomas

These siblings’ college dreams were nearly derailed by President Trump’s “public charge” immigration policy. But they made it to graduation, all at the same time.

The 74
Leadership
Parents’ Night Out: Fun for Kids. Freedom for Parents

Chalkbeat
Leadership
How much do students trust higher ed leaders?

BOULDER, CO - AUGUST 18: A group of incoming freshmen play spike ball on campus after moving into dormitories at University of Colorado Boulder on August 18, 2020 in Boulder, Colorado. Due to the coronavirus pandemic,...