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University of Houston slashes 40% of courses from its core curriculum

The Texas institution cut about 100 classes, including in women’s and LGBT studies, to comply with a state law mandating general education reviews.

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Missouri Education Board Wary of $300 Million School Funding Increase

Missouri education officials are preparing to ask lawmakers for roughly $300 million more for public schools next year, setting up a potentially difficult budget fight as the state faces a projected revenue shortfall....

Education Dive
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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
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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...

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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...

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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...

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Bankrupt Anna Maria College to sell nursing program for $1.1M

After closing abruptly this year, the Catholic institution is trying to pay off millions of dollars in debt.

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Head Start Providers Describe a System in Turmoil Amid Federal Cutbacks

This March, Mary Ellen Lykins, a director of 10 Head Start centers serving around 200 kids in northwest Washington, submitted a seemingly simple application to the federal government: She wanted to convert one of her...

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Controversial group that opened ‘Colorado’s first public Christian school’ will close after 13 years

Education reEnvisioned BOCES, which is headed by Executive Director Ken Witt, will dissolve in a phased process over several months.

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Californians Voted to Spend $1 Billion on K-12 Arts. Why Are Schools Returning the Money?

Three years after voters passed an ambitious arts education funding measure, California’s K-12 schools were supposed to be awash in dance, music, theater and fine arts. But some schools are returning their arts money to...

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The most advantaged students attend the best-funded colleges. Does it have to be this way?

The dome of Harvard University's Dunster House and John W. Weeks Bridge over Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

District Admin
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Entire school board in Georgia district suspended

Dublin City Schools faced about a $20 million deficit and a financial crisis that prompted the state to step in with emergency payroll assistance and put its accreditation at risk. The post Entire school board in...

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Indiana charter schools could receive over $49 million in new revenue from proposed tax increases

Kindergartners in class at Herron Prep Academy in Indianapolis in September 2023. The school is one of about 60 schools statewide that could receive funding from ballot questions if voters pass them in November.

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Newark charter school’s new $51 million facility to join wave of South Ward development

Newark planners approved a $51 million building for the Gateway Academy earlier this year. It will house the school's K-8 students, whose current campus is nearly at capacity.

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Opinion: Families Don’t Want School Choice, They Want Their Child to Read

Conversations about Education Savings Account programs seem to start in the same place: the money. Where is it going? How is it being used? Who is benefiting? Understandably so. When taxpayer money moves, people...

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Sen. Murkowski Pushes for Delayed Federal Grants for Alaska Native Education

The U.S. Department of Education is expected to award $41.3 million in grant funding through the Alaska Native Education Program to 26 Alaska grantees after some delay, according to an announcement from Alaska...

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Head Start Could Soon Be Overhauled. Here’s Exactly What Would Change.

The Trump administration is pushing a total overhaul of Head Start that could fundamentally reshape the 60-year-old program that has provided childcare and key support for America’s lowest-income families. A new...

Chalkbeat
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The end could be near for the Colorado education group that opened ‘public Christian school’

Susana Córdova, Colorado's education commissioner, wrote to Ken Witt, executive director of Education reEnvisioned BOCES, on Thursday urging him to dissolve his group.

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New York loses millions in sex ed money after uptick in teen pregnancies

Illustrative models of the sexual organs and contraceptives are displayed on a table. Advocates worry that funding cuts to New York sexual education organizations could leave more young people without the information...

Education Dive
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University of Nebraska board approves cutting programs with low enrollment

The eliminations come after a bruising budget-saving push to eliminate degrees last year at the system’s Lincoln campus.

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A divided Chicago school board adds referendums on new revenue to November ballot

Chicago Public Schools interim CEO Macquline King, right, listens during the Thursday, June 26, 2025, school board meeting. The board voted Aug. 13 to place two advisory referendums on the November ballot.

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Opinion: Congress Made it Easier to Pay for College. It Must Keep That Promise

Right now, 15.5 million undergraduate students around the country are getting ready to start or return to college. Seven million of them have one thing in common: relying on a Pell Grant to help pay for their higher...

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More Early Childhood Programs Are Providing Free Housing to Teaching Staff

This story was co-published with Mother Jones.  A few years ago, Eric Gil was living at his uncle’s place in Waterbury, Connecticut, where he shared a bedroom with his brother and cousin. With eight people in the...

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Indianapolis Public Education Corporation to pay executive director $285,000 salary

The Indianapolis Public Education Corporation approved the salary for executive director Karega Rausch at its August meeting.

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The Chicago Board of Education voted to reverse layoffs, but CPS says not all positions can be restored

The media room at Senn High School in 2021. The Chicago Board of Education voted to reverse layoffs, but the district says it can't restore all positions for funding reasons.

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Thousands of LAUSD Workers Face Layoffs That Didn’t Have to Happen

On the brink of looming insolvency, Los Angeles Unified could have prevented its financial crisis by leaving vacated positions empty, making thousands of district employee layoffs unavoidable to address a $3.6 billion...

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Memphis schools budget earns approval after more than a month of delay

Shelby County Commissioners voted 7-4 to approve the MSCS budget on Monday, over a week after classes had already started.

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‘What Did We Do Wrong Now?’: Rural Iowa Schools Weigh Impact of ESA Expansion

As Iowa’s Education Savings Account program continues to expand to include all K-12 families, rural public school districts are still trying to determine how the scholarships will affect their classrooms, budgets and...

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Chicago school board to weigh adding ballot questions about new revenue sources

The Chicago Board of Education is poised to consider two nonbonding referendums to seek symbolic support for more state and city funding from city voters in November.

Education Dive
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How Sonoma State saved academic programs slated for closure

After wide-ranging academic cuts, the public institution’s leaders worked with faculty to make some previously doomed programs more efficient and viable.