California’s latest budget includes $116 million over three years to help schools identify and support students experiencing homelessness — the first time the state has dedicated funding specifically for this purpose....
Candidates vying for a spot on Chicago's first fully-elected school board line up to file paperwork to get on the ballot. More than $1.6 million in campaign contributions have gone to school board candidates between...
Speaker Julie Menin and Council Members rally on Thursday with UFT in support of Emergency Retention Funding for Paraprofessionals.
Middle school algebra teacher Manuel Sanchez, at Edwards Elementary in Chicago, I.L. on Mar. 12, 2025. The 2026-27 budget Chicago Public Schools unveiled on Wednesday will decrease the number of general education...
The credit ratings agency found increases in median headcounts across colleges it rates, but also weakening operating margins in fiscal 2025.
Members of Parents to Improve School Transportation at a Panel for Educational Policy meeting where they called for transportation improvements. The meeting was held at Queens' Francis Lewis High School on Sept. 25,...
Indiana K-12 schools must meet new standards before seeking approval to implement a four-day school week. The model, once favored by rural schools due to a shortage of bus drivers, is spreading nationwide to urban and...
A new $10 million pool of performance-based funds adds money to long-stagnant appropriations but falls short of higher education leaders’ hopes.
Too often, parents take for granted that their children’s school experience is fundamentally the same as what’s happening in all the district’s schools. It turns out that is often far from reality. And some differences...
New York City will add 250 preschool seats in popular special education programs as part of a $67.5 million plan aimed at serving more children with disabilities, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday.
Opening day at Manhattan's Thomas Jefferson Pool, one of the city's public pools, on June 27. NYC is expanding its free swim lessons for second graders.
On Tuesday morning, members of the Chicago Teachers Union blamed some of the cuts on a chronic problem with property taxes. The post CPS lays off 162 employees as it works to close $732 million budget deficit appeared...
High chronic absenteeism is one of six factors that spurred the state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.
“There are limits to what can be achieved through continued reductions,” the system’s president said as ever-deepening austerity measures loom.
Maine joined 15 states on Friday in suing the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding. The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle between Democratic-led...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the state's 2026-27 budget on Sunday, which includes $157 million more for Philadelphia’s schools.
Here at The 74, we publish and syndicate more than 30 articles a week about how America’s education system is evolving in a bid to better serve its 74 million children. But with so much happening and changing every day,...
The county education office cited the cost of recently approved employee contracts as well as ongoing structural deficits and declining enrollment. The post LAUSD placed on increased fiscal oversight with warning of...
The public Philadelphia institution is reducing its workforce for the second year in a row but has seen promising enrollment gains of late.
Public schools continued to serve more than 1.5 million students across North Carolina in the 2025-26 school year — or about 84% of market share, a percentage that is about the same as previous years. Market share is a...
Jitu Brown, elected member of the Chicago Board of Education, speaks at a press conference to urge Gov. JB Pritzker to call a special session in Springfield for more education funding.
Results from the yearlong probe into MSCS' finances and operations come less than a month before the first day of classes.
The U.S. Department of Education OKs Arkansas’ requests to consolidate federal funding and reduce the amount of paperwork and red tape required of school administrators. The post Feds approve Arkansas’ request for...
Alexandra Dakessian, the assistant principal at McCutcheon Elementary School in Chicago. Due to budget cuts, her position was eliminated, but her school used discretionary money to keep herl.
Second graders start their day at Deane Elementary School in Lakewood in August 2022. Jeffco Public Schools could ask voters in November for a tax increase to pay for teacher salaries and more.
New York City public school kindergartners will automatically receive $1,000 for college expenses, up from $100, under a budget deal announced Tuesday between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council. The budget also...
In his eighth and final budget, the tax gods continued to smile upon Gov. Gavin Newsom, enabling him to cement funding for signature programs he started while salving grumbling districts that are wincing over the...
A $6,000 Apple MacBook Pro. A $4,800 Trek mountain bike. A $2,000 Crate & Barrel bookshelf. Families bought all of this—and more—with taxpayer dollars through Utah’s school voucher program during the 2024-25 school...
We’re rounding up recent stories, from two states teaming up to create three-year bachelor’s degrees to policy and leadership developments out of Florida.