English learners make up 17% of California students, but few are comfortable enough to show up when decisions that affect them are under discussion. Districts should change that.
In the first years after Tulsa Honor Academy opened in 2015, founder Elsie Urueta Pollock visited almost every student’s home herself, promising parents that she would help their children be successful. Like them, she’s...
Chris Nassetta and other Hilton leaders reveal how the new college town-focused brand was born following the 2024 acquisition of Graduate.
The Trump administration announced an investigation into the Cherry Creek School District Monday, alleging racial discrimination.
I’ve always thought about the future. What would it look like? What fantastical creations existed there that I was incapable of anticipating? And most importantly, what would I be doing? I knew I wanted to be one of the...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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,...
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.
Following months of speculation, Hilton has unveiled the new upper midscale brand, a flexible, scalable complement to its Graduate offering.
Each August in rural southwestern Oklahoma, more than half of Frederick Elementary School’s incoming third graders begin their school year in a literacy intervention program because they’re behind in reading...
Last month brought several high-profile leadership changes across the higher education sector, with some presidents departing amid institutional tension.
What does it take to run one of the largest urban public school districts in the nation? Dr. Sonja Santelises, longtime CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, sat down for a frank and memorable exit conversation.
Around 1,300 Philadelphia school district students dropped out last year, marking a sharp decline from just a few years prior.
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When Celestina Castillo filled out the ethnicity forms at her children’s school, she’d always check Latino and Native American. After...
Ally Bollman hadn’t given much thought to her toddler’s kindergarten plans when the topic first came up among a group of moms of similarly aged children in Scottsdale, Arizona.  The way she recalls it, nearly...
Chalkbeat and The Bell invite the public to P.S. Weekly Live, an event at the Brooklyn Public Library featuring NYC student reporters discussing the stories shaping their schools.
Oklahoma City’s Crossroads Mall officially shuttered to shoppers in 2017. But over the past decade, local leaders have launched a groundbreaking effort to revitalize the complex as America’s largest community school,...