Colorado voters will consider a ballot measure that would bar transgender students from joining sports teams that match their gender identity.
Denver school board Vice President Monica Hunter listens to public comment at a meeting last month. The board has ordered an investigation into allegations against her that she denies.
A young student reads a sentence in Spanish at Calmeca Academy of Fine Arts in the Brighton Park neighborhood in 2025. One month into the school year, CPS has rehired 350 people as part of the school board's budget...
Denver school board member DJ Torres, center, resigned from the board Thursday, citing "too much time" spent on "internal conflict."
A school board candidate in Santa Cruz County is facing felony charges of perjury and filing a false affidavit for allegedly turning in campaign paperwork to run for a seat representing a district in which he does not...
Merci Ames was named Colorado's 2027 Teacher of the Year in a surprise ceremony Thursday.
Growing up with a parent in the military meant that change was an active part of my life and the choices that I made. Books were always one of the only things that felt constant to me. No matter where I was, I could...
In the crowded DPSCD board race, five candidates are running together as an ideological slate for the activism group By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN.
New York City families rallied on the steps of City Hall with council members on June 15. Parents had concerns about losing their programs; now many say their fears came true.
District 5B school board candidates Anthony Hargrove (left), and Michilla “Kyla” Blaise (right) participate in a Sept. 17 candidate forum hosted at Collins Academy STEAM High School.
Giving students time and autonomy to write about themselves can build their voice and their joy for storytelling, one educator says.
Some 25% of students are prepared for the course in 8th grade, but a quarter of that subset still don’t take it, NWEA research says.
Norma Ríos Sierra, candidata a la Junta de Educación de Chicago por el Distrito 3a.
In a remarkable new interview, 16-year-old Najya Hannah-Jones challenged the choice her parents made about her education. After years in neighborhood schools that affirmed her identity but left significant gaps in her...
Class Disrupted is an education podcast featuring author Michael Horn and Futre’s Diane Tavenner in conversation with educators, school leaders, students and other members of school communities as they investigate the...
Sendhil Revuluri, school board presidential candidate, poses for portrait in Douglass Park. Revuluri announced Wednesday that he's suspending his campaign.
With five Detroit school board seats up for election Nov. 3, candidates share their views on parents’ role in improving attendance.
“Why aren’t we being recruited as aggressively to commit two years to teach in urban and rural schools as we are being recruited to work two years on Wall Street?” That was the question Teach For America founder Wendy...
New research shows that chronic superintendent turnover negatively impacts student achievement. A new Vanderbilt study shows evidence that internal superintendent promotions might be a pathway for better district...
Kindergarten teacher Wittney Swyers knew it was impossible when her colleagues said her students should be entering first grade prepared to write sentences independently. That was roughly a decade ago, when the...
All student demographic groups saw score increases, but participation overall was down compared to the previous year, according to the College Board.
The Memphis-Shelby County school board on Sept. 29 elected District 4 board member Tamarques Porter to lead the body as chair.
Tired of compliance-driven workshops, one teacher took to TikTok to turn literacy research into actionable classroom strategies.
A survey by The RP Group found that rural community college students are ambitious, but are often unfamiliar with the transfer process or lack the means to relocate.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Nikole Hannah-Jones’ essay “devastating” and promised a plan, but he declined to commit to specific integration policies.
The Indiana legislature’s push to have the Indianapolis school district and charter schools work together is taking a step backward, with the district pulling out of an important collaboration already in place: a single...
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This year is DPSCD's last to spend its $94.4 million literacy lawsuit settlement. The district analyzed what did and didn't work during the first two years of initiatives the settlement paid for.
Declining birth rates mean fewer students. And that means more districts grappling with whether to close or merge schools. “The big shrink” is how Marguerite Roza, director of Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab,...
High school students chant and march through downtown Denver to protest the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and treatment of immigrants, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. ICE activity around campuses this school...