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Technology & AI
ICE detains immigrant parents near children’s San Diego elementary school

The parents of a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old were detained near the children’s elementary school in San Diego Unified School District on Wednesday, shortly after morning drop-off. The arrest happened around 8:45 a.m....

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Technology & AI
Report: How Gen-Z Views School and What a Sense of Belonging Means to Them

When a 20-year-old New Yorker recently reflected on her high school experience, she said the things she learned weren’t “very helpful to where I am now.” “I don’t really think most of my classes that I took in high...

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Technology & AI
Proposed Head Start Changes Could Cut Jobs, Raise Family Costs, Analysis Shows

A little over a month after the Trump administration debuted its proposal to dramatically reduce Head Start standards, a clearer picture is emerging of what those changes might mean for the 1,600 local programs across...

District Admin
Leadership
Vouchers promise students with disabilities a path to private school. Parents say that’s not the reality.

Unlike public schools, private ones generally aren’t required to educate students with disabilities. They often don’t. The post Vouchers promise students with disabilities a path to private school. Parents say that’s...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Boulder school district settles civil rights complaint over antisemitic harassment

Boulder Valley School District will begin to address antisemitic harassment and discrimination in the schools by creating a new executive-level role to handle all Title VI complaints. The post Boulder school district...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: Outcomes-Based Contracting Requires Not Just Accountability, but Partnership

School districts are under increasing pressure to do more with less. Budgets are tightening, academic recovery coming out of the pandemic remains unfinished in many communities, and educators, administrators and parents...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Your guide to 2026 school board elections in Marion County

10 school districts across Marion County have school board seats on the ballot this November.

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Tennessee kids could see major Meta settlement windfall. How will it be spent?

A Meta settlement that could direct hundreds of millions of dollars to Tennessee child mental health well-being programs is a "once-in-a-generation opportunity," one Tennessee lawmaker says.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Beech Grove school board voter guide 2026: Meet the 3 candidates

Three candidates are running for three seats on the Beech Grove school board this November.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Voter guide 2026: 4 candidates are running for 3 seats on Pike Township school board

Four candidates are vying for three seats on the Pike Township school board this November.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Voter guide 2026: Franklin Township school board race has 7 candidates for 3 seats

Seven candidates are vying for three seats on the Franklin Township school board this November.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township: School board election voter guide

Eight candidates are vying for three at-large seats for the school board of the Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Voter guide 2026: Here’s who is running for Washington Township school board

Two candidates are running unopposed for the Washington Township school board this November.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Voter guide 2026: Here’s who’s running for school board in Wayne Township

Four candidates are running unopposed for Wayne Township School board this November.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Perry Township school board voter guide 2026: Meet the 3 candidates

Three of seven school board seats are up for election at Metropolitan School District of Perry Township, a district located on the south side of Indianapolis.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Warren Township school board voter guide 2026: Meet the 6 candidates

Six candidates are vying for three seats on the Warren Township school board this November.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township: School board election voter guide

Lawrence Central High School students work on projects during class on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.

Technology & AI
How Dartmouth’s push for more dialogue improved campus debate and its reputation

Efforts by the Ivy League institution to foster open conversations have helped raise its score with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

EdSource
Technology & AI
3 takeaways from stories on teens’ reliance on AI for mental health support

Roughly 1 in 5 teens are turning to AI chatbots for mental health support — and that number is only growing.

EdSource
Leadership
Teaching 9/11 to a generation that never experienced it

Twenty-five years later, educators should give students context and space to reflect — not try to re-create the trauma adults remember.

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Leadership
Tears, Laughs & Hugs: Inside NYC’s New Free 2-K Program

EdSurge
Technology & AI
Parents Are Bringing AI to the IEP Meeting. How Should Teachers Respond?

Using AI in IEP meetings can benefit parents and teachers – if done correctly.

EdSource
Technology & AI
Newsom signs first-in-nation laws restricting AI, social media use for children

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed into law a landmark package of bills to restrict children and teens’ use of social media and artificial intelligence chatbots deemed harmful. The first-in-the nation suite of online...

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Leadership
Amid Financial Scramble, NYC’s 2-K Opens to Smiles from Toddlers and Parents

Two-year-old Mia was all smiles for her first week of school — a big moment for the eager child, but also for New York City, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched the inaugural year of free 2-K for 2,000 children. Wearing...

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Leadership
Chicago school board looks at possible preschool expansion, despite opposition from district leadership

Mateo Lopez, 3, interacts with instructor Rebecca Rodriguez at Haugan Elementary School on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022 in Chicago. Some school board members want the district to study expanding early childhood programs...

Chalkbeat
Budget & Finance
Detroit mayor announces 7 new after-school program sites with $2.2 million in city funds

Mayor Mary Sheffield's office announced Thursday that a $2.2 million investment in after-school programming will allow around 1,000 more students access to GOAL Line Detroit programs.

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Leadership
Cost savings, first-day jitters, payment delays: NYC launches 2-K for 2,000 toddlers

Students at the Friends of Crown Heights childcare center in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, play with toys on the first day of 2-K.

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Irvington data center poses health concerns for school community — and could also impact enrollment

Irvington Community Elementary Principal Katie Welch, left, and Irvington Community Schools CEO Rachel Maldonado stand behind Irvington Community Elementary and look at the land that's the site for a proposed data...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
NYC back to school: New AI and screen time limits give parents relief

Children stream into P.S. 107 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, for the first day of school. The city's new policy limits student-facing AI for elementary and middle schoolers and bans individual devices before third grade.

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Leadership
The rise, fall — and possible future — of high-dosage tutoring

Third graders work on a math worksheet at an after-school tutoring program at Ecorse Ralph J. Bunche Elementary School on April 7, 2022 in Ecorse, Michigan.