After removing hundreds of books, Clay County District Schools is debating the purpose of high school libraries. School officials called it modernization. Critics see it as the next phase of the book debate targeting...
Charter schools in Massachusetts have significantly accelerated student learning over the last quarter century, a newly released study shows. Compared with their counterparts in the state’s traditional public schools,...
Family preferences on childcare arrangements vary, sometimes wildly, but many parents consistently report a desire to be able to care for their young children themselves and for trusted family, friends and neighbors to...
Officials in President Donald Trump's administration have framed segregation orders as federal intrusion into local school systems. The post Federal appeals court ends a decades-old school desegregation order in...
Denver could close persistently low-rated schools at the end of the 2026-27 school year under a new policy.
Speaker Julie Menin at a United Federation of Teachers breakfast on April 23, 2026. Menin has supported a bill to pay paras an extra $10,000.
State education agencies are being asked to do something they have rarely been asked to do before: lead. As the federal government’s influence over education recedes, leaving confusion in its wake, calls for guidance,...
The collection of Stephen King novellas inspired classic films like “Stand by Me” and “The Shawshank Redemption.” The post Utah just banned another Stephen King book from all public schools. Here’s what it’s about....
Detroit voters will decide the fate of a proposed operating millage Aug. 4 for the Detroit Public Schools Community District, its first such request since state lawmakers created the district in 2016.
The landmark decision has big implications for transgender students — and the Title IX and litigation landscape for colleges.
Supporters say the Republican-led proposals would help “right-size” the U.S. Department of Education, while opponents predict inefficiencies.
For the third year in a row, Gov. Tate Reeves opted out of a state-federal partnership that would have given summer grocery benefits to roughly 320,000 Mississippi children who rely on free meals during the school...
Education reEnvisioned BOCES is seeking to continue offering 42 homeschool enrichment programs that operate outside the boundaries of its one member school district.
Kansas City-based Frontier Schools is on track to open Columbia’s first charter school in the fall of 2027. At this point, Frontier Schools has hired a contractor and is looking for possible locations for the charter...
The audit cites leadership instability as a key cause of dysfunction as the battle over MSCS' state takeover continues.
Delegates get to know each other and the issues on the first day of the assembly at Hunter College.
Bakersfield College agreed to not require Daymon Johnson to use diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility principles in his teaching or scholarship.
About two-dozen Hoosier childcare providers and advocates overwhelmingly opposed looser statewide staff educational requirements during a Monday public hearing. “This is a profession. This is not just a babysitting...
The science of reading has largely won the policy debate. Over the last decade, state after state has embraced evidence-based reading instruction. Legislatures have passed literacy laws, and teacher preparation programs...
The Trump administration unveiled its timeline for a host of regulatory changes, including those related to accreditation, diversity initiatives and Title VI.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani named Kamar Samuels as schools Chancellor Dec. 31, 2025. In his first six months in office, Mamdani has devoted far less public attention to K-12 education than other core policy priorities.
A panel of three federal judges rejected Florida’s argument that the system unconstitutionally delegates “unchecked authority” to private agencies.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Soon after Patriots defended Charles Town at Fort Moultrie in 1776, the regiment received a flag embroidered with acorns, a battle drum and an early version of the crescent that would eventually adorn...
Denver Public Schools is Colorado’s largest school district. A conservative law firm is suing the district over its voting map.
Students work in the chemistry lab at Ascend College Prep, which because of a recent state law change switched authorizers.
A Colorado law passed last year required school districts to pass cellphone policies but did not mandate a ban.
Demonstrators in support of and opposed to transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 13, 2026, as the justices heard arguments in two cases challenging state bans. On...
A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics and public policy. Katie Arnold-Ratliff wrote a cover story for New York Magazine criticizing...
Young women demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court upheld state laws barring transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's school sports. The much anticipated decision came on the last day...
States can block transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, handing the Trump administration a victory in its effort to enforce such restrictions. ...