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Technology & AI
Another round of Education Department regulations is coming, official says

Under Secretary Nicholas Kent said Tuesday that the agency needs to make the process for college mergers, acquisitions and even closures “a lot easier.”

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Leadership
Chicago school board candidates won’t be removed from ballot due to ‘dual-circulation’ argument

From left, election commissioners Laura Kotelman, Marsiel Hernandez and June Brown hear an oral argument from Ed Mullen.

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Policy & Legislation
Supreme Court rules states can restrict transgender athletes’ sports participation in schools

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...

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Technology & AI
What it means when a Colorado college is designated a Basic Needs Campus or a Thriving Institution

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.

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Leadership
ETS acquires ACT, consolidating two testing giants

The move comes as more colleges are going back to requiring standardized tests for admissions.

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Budget & Finance
Why a new federal school choice program may require a massive marketing budget

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...

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Leadership
Kids Reimagined the American Flag — and Their Ideas Are Wild

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Policy & Legislation
Supreme Court Sides With Red States Over Bans on Trans Athletes

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. ...

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Budget & Finance
Here’s how education spending is affecting Pennsylvania’s state budget negotiations

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.

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Budget & Finance
NYC budget gives every public school kindergartner $1,000 for college, restores education programs

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...

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Technology & AI
DPSCD adds five new schools to list of buildings with low enrollment, high costs

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...

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Policy & Legislation
Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship

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...

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Technology & AI
Lānaʻi School Relies on Temporary Power Lines for Years

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...

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Policy & Legislation
Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes in women’s college sports

Colleges and K-12 schools can determine eligibility for women's and girls' sports teams based on "biological sex," the court ruled.

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Technology & AI
More Than Half of Georgia Teachers Now Use Artificial Intelligence to Prepare for Class

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...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: As AI Advances, Student Voice Must Keep Pace

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,...

District Admin
Budget & Finance
Across West Virginia, public schools are closing. Communities are feeling the loss.

Across West Virginia, public schools are rapidly closing. Political leaders are cutting taxes and funneling hundreds of millions of taxpayer money into a school voucher program, while wringing their hands about local...

District Admin
Budget & Finance
New law allows NH voters to veto school administrator pay increases

The state's school administrative units will soon be required to craft their own budgets and voters will be empowered to vote down those budgets, under a law that Republicans hope will help drive down K12 costs. The...

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Technology & AI
New Report Finds Five-Year Drop in Preschool Enrollment, but COVID’s Effects Loom

The percentage of  3- and 4-year-olds enrolled in school dropped during the most recently available five-year lookback window of federal data, though that picture is likely clouded by COVID-era school...

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Technology & AI
Younger workers may be falling behind in critical thinking skills

The three largest skill gaps in the younger workforce represent “the very skills most essential to humans in the AI era,” per a report from Cangrade.

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Technology & AI
4 numbers that show how chronic absenteeism is becoming a long-term crisis

A sign reads "Attendance Matters" at Samuel Gompers Elementary-Middle School in Detroit. Detroit has seen gains from its efforts to improve attendance, but chronic absenteeism remains a stubborn problem, there and...

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Technology & AI
Detroit school district loses court appeal against state over paying debt with operating tax revenue

Unless appealed again, the court loss means DPSCD will have to rely on voters' approving a ballot measure allowing the district to collect its own operating revenue for the first time. Pictured is a hallway in DPSCD's...

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Leadership
This Brooklyn teacher connects chemistry to the real world — and just won $25,000 for it

Rayhan Ahmed (far right), a science teacher at Brooklyn's Gotham Professional Arts Academy High School, recently won a FLAG Award for Teaching Excellence.

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Policy & Legislation
Chicago’s school board is supposed to have a noncitizen advisory board. It still doesn’t exist.

Students listen in class at a dual-language elementary school in Chicago. Mayor Brandon Johnson still hasn't created a noncitizen advisory board for Chicago's school board, which is required by state law.

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Leadership
Virginia and Ohio join effort to design 3-year bachelor’s degrees

While some say such degrees could increase college affordability, two groups blasted them as “stripped-down curriculum that prioritizes speed.”

Policy & Legislation
North Carolina Republicans ban DEI at public colleges

The new law took effect immediately and came after legislators overrode a veto from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein.

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Budget & Finance
Alaska Districts Close 12 Schools This Year, Amid Severe Budget Cuts

Alaska saw an unprecedented wave of school closures this year. District officials grappling with severe budget shortfalls have opted to close 12 elementary and middle schools across the state — in Anchorage, Wasilla,...

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Policy & Legislation
Incumbent VP, Top State Union Leaders Among Candidates for NEA President

While the U.S. celebrates over the Fourth of July weekend, four candidates will be vying for the top post of the nation’s largest teachers union. The National Education Association’s leadership election will decide the...

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Technology & AI
NYC Delays School AI Guidance After Backlash

New York City education officials are hitting pause on releasing comprehensive artificial intelligence guidelines after their draft policy from March sparked fierce backlash. Officials initially said their final...

District Admin
Budget & Finance
Ohio public school districts face teacher shortages amid reduced state funding, budget woes

Educators and advocates woory that reduced public school funding and a lack of resources has taken its toll already. But there is hope that opportunities exist, if the state can get behind them. The post Ohio public...