At the Charter School Growth Fund, graduation is our favorite time of year. It is when schools shine. We are reminded of what is possible when students, teachers and school leaders have excellence as their north star....
Members of the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation discuss placing an operating referendum on the ballot on June 22.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Chancellor Kamar Samuels, making a child care announcement in January, will spend $290 million this year to prevent budget cuts at schools with falling enrollment. Educators and watchdogs wonder...
The flagship plans to adjust contracts and restrict hiring as it grapples with rising costs, declines in federal research funding and other challenges.
Schools across the country are focusing keenly on two key priorities: teaching children to read and bringing down high chronic absenteeism rates that undermine learning. Both these goals could be scuttled by an alarming...
We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from the latest moves from the U.S. Department of Education to cuts at major public universities.
Courtney Buuck thought there was some kind of mistake. When she learned that she received a $40,000 bonus payment on top of her base teacher’s salary last fall, she was in shock. Like other staff at United Schools of...
Marking the start of two weeks of intensive negotiations, the Legislature passed a state budget Monday with higher revenue projections than those proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, providing several billion dollars in...
Through the Greater Philadelphia YMCA's City Government Youth Summit, students adopted roles across the executive branch, City Council, press corps, and community advocacy groups, mirroring the real structure of city...
The new proposal comes after the public institution carried out two recent rounds of workforce cuts and declared financial exigency last year.
As more discussions about supplying adequate, affordable childcare are had across the state, childcare centers continue to struggle with staff retention. Beth Ann Lang, deputy chief executive officer of Child Care Aware...
California's Student Teacher Stipend Program has allocated $300 million in state funding to eligible preservice educators, but student teachers may not see any of the money due to the application process being too...
California's expansion of free transitional kindergarten has caused disruptions for childcare and preschool providers, who say they need more support and funding to adapt to the new landscape.
Rep. Jesús G. “Chuy” Garcia outlines The Right to Learn Act in a press conference at Richard J. Daley College in south Chicago on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
The Trump administration on Tuesday gave Indiana just a fraction of the freedom the state wanted in loosening restrictions on how federal money is spent on low income and vulnerable students, suggesting other states are...
More families across the country are experimenting with private school as states—and soon the federal government—use taxpayer-supported scholarships to encourage them to leave public school. The post The school choice...
The Legislature meets the June 15 deadline to send a state budget to the governor, with additional funding and a contentious withholding of $3.9 billion for TK-12 and community colleges still to be resolved.
The state’s higher education authority signed off on the narrowed offerings even as a lawsuit contests the university’s transformation.
The New York institution has so far dodged many of its peers’ woes. But demographic shifts and enrollment declines are weighing on its finances.
The public West Virginia institution’s tweaks to its offerings follow a state-mandated review and come amid an effort to shrink its deficit.
Gov. Newsom warns it's prudent to hold back the funding in case a flood of expected new money dries up; school districts disagree.
Gov. Newsom warns it's prudent to hold back the funding in case a flood of expected new money dries up; school districts disagree.
The Treasury Department has promised to finalize rules for the federal tax-credit scholarship by the end of September.
Starting in the 2026 school year, state-funded homeschool enrichment programs can't pay for private activities like sports camps or martial arts lessons.
Despite budget pressures, officials framed the moves as an effort to eliminate silos and improve the student experience.
Mayor Cherelle Parker, center, announced Wednesday that she, City Council, and leaders of the School District of Philadelphia reached a deal to prevent the elimination of 340 school-based positions.
Education reEnvisioned BOCES, where Ken Witt is executive director, lost one school district member this month and could lose the other by the end of June.
The number of remote charter academies operating in North Carolina is expected to nearly double next school year, according to state education officials. Ashley Logue, executive director of the Office of Charter...
Federal, state and local.  Historically, those are the three pots of funding districts have relied on to educate America’s students. One of the nation’s leading school finance experts says leaders should start...
The faculty group disputed what administrators describe as a need to shrink and restructure the institution to meet a new enrollment reality.