The Texas institution cut about 100 classes, including in women’s and LGBT studies, to comply with a state law mandating general education reviews.
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....
The latest survey of higher education employees from CUPA-HR found the biggest spike in tenure-track professors since at least 2016.
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...
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...
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...
After closing abruptly this year, the Catholic institution is trying to pay off millions of dollars in debt.
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...
Education reEnvisioned BOCES, which is headed by Executive Director Ken Witt, will dissolve in a phased process over several months.
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...
The dome of Harvard University's Dunster House and John W. Weeks Bridge over Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Susana Córdova, Colorado's education commissioner, wrote to Ken Witt, executive director of Education reEnvisioned BOCES, on Thursday urging him to dissolve his group.
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...
The eliminations come after a bruising budget-saving push to eliminate degrees last year at the system’s Lincoln campus.
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.
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...
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...
The Indianapolis Public Education Corporation approved the salary for executive director Karega Rausch at its August meeting.
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.
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...
Shelby County Commissioners voted 7-4 to approve the MSCS budget on Monday, over a week after classes had already started.
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...
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.
After wide-ranging academic cuts, the public institution’s leaders worked with faculty to make some previously doomed programs more efficient and viable.