We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from a rise in tuition discount rates to more U.S. Department of Justice probes into universities.
Chronic absenteeism is one of the most persistent challenges facing schools today. A student is considered chronically absent after missing 10% of the school year, about 18 days in most districts. According to...
New York City elementary and middle school students might soon have a bigger say on their schools’ policies.
Detainees gesture at windows from inside Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center on June 4, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey.
Top Takeaways With millions of ballots still to be counted in California, Chino Valley Unified school board President Sonja Shaw has a clear lead in the state superintendent of public instruction primary with 24.9% of...
Mark Brostrom with his son outside the Austin Centers for Exceptional Students in Westminster. Brostrom's son attended The ACES until his family removed him.
At the end of my junior year of high school, I was elected Student Council president. I spent all summer making plans. Before the first council meeting of the year, I met with the principal, who told me, “You may...
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. A controversial “public Christian school” in southern...
Searching for a new school can be an exhausting exercise for parents, no matter what time of the year they're on the hunt. Here are some tips to make the process easier.
J.E. Clark Preparatory Academy, pictured here in April 2026, is one of four schools in the Detroit Public Schools Community District that are closing. A fifth school, the Barack Obama Leadership Academy charter school,...
Children hold onto a cord as they walk outside in New York City to ensure they stay together. The city's waitlist for childcare vouchers has reached 25,000.
The agency last month accused two highly selective medical schools of unlawfully giving Black and Hispanic applicants an advantage.
A pencil lay on a page of a test preparation book. Chicago Public Schools will replace its high school admissions test with a longer PreACT exam.
People sit near the entrance to the Chicago Board of Elections Supersite during Chicago Board of Education candidate filing on Monday, May 18, 2026. More than half of the hopeful school board candidates are facing...
Tennessee students have nearly returned to pre-pandemic achievement levels in math and have also made significant improvements in reading, according to a recent report that charts how well schools have recovered from...
Letting students decide how they learn is almost as important a goal of Mayfield High School near Cleveland as learning itself. The school lets students skip traditional classrooms and lectures if they don’t fit how a...
One of the many surprises of being a new parent is just how many diapers a tiny baby can go through in a day. In the haze of those first weeks and months adjusting to having an infant, parents shouldn’t have to worry...
Public school classrooms are required to post the Ten Commandments, Bible verses are being injected into social studies curriculums and some school districts are required to allow students to leave campus midday to...
Lucas Healy, a high school student on the autism spectrum, and his mom, Paullette Ha-Healy, who discussed problems with NYC's yellow school bus service.
A statewide initiative to help university dropouts reenroll and complete their degrees has cultivated a promising playbook that could raise California’s postsecondary attainment rates, according to a new study.
Inayah Brown and her daughter Autumn, a fourth grader, arrive for the first day of school at KIPP Seek Academy in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday, August 22, 2024.
City Councilmember Isaiah Thomas is leading the calls to explore the possibility of switching Philadelphia to an elected school board in the wake of the board's vote to close 17 schools.
Jonathan Escobar high-fives his former teacher, Juan Elias, after graduating from Carl Schurz High School. Escobar is one of hundreds of students who were forced to leave his ASPIRA charter school after it abruptly...
Since the attendance incentive began, DPSCD officials say high school chronic absenteeism dropped by 10 percentage points. Pictured, students enter a classroom at Osborn High School.
Denver Public School has hired Sito Narcisse as the temporary chief of schools.
When Santana Cruz graduates from high school this spring, she will have over 100 college credits and two associate degrees. A public school student in Bristol, Virginia, that sits along the Tennessee border, Cruz began...
“Taylor dropped a new album.” “Resting up from my vacay.” “Netflix binge last night.” Those were among the “lame excuses” for missing school that Oklahoma’s Union Public Schools featured during the 2024-25 school year,...
Efforts to address deep-rooted inequities for students of color are being cast as discriminatory against white students. The post Trump’s Education Department is backing away from addressing civil rights for Black...
To be an educator and a writer is to inhabit a rollercoaster world of hope; at times, you are filled with the excitement and power of possibilities, ...
I had fallen in love with my life as a high schooler, but I knew in my heart that I could be doing more.