We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from Florida's public education shutting out undocumented students to the stalled fight to ban legacy admissions.
Teachers in Los Angeles Unified are struggling to change how they teach and manage their classes to follow the district’s new screen time policy.
In an effort to keep the Austin school district independent, Mayor Kirk Watson is pushing to close two chronically-failing middle schools that triggered the state’s takeover law. He’ll need parents’ help to do it....
A court returned Lindsey Cornett to the ballot for IPS school board after the Marion County Election Board removed her. She's running to represent District 4.
The State Board of Education approved 31 early literacy professional development options for teachers, another step toward implementing early literacy reforms passed by the Legislature last year.
OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal appeals court has upheld and limited the interpretation of a controversial Oklahoma law impacting public school teaching on race and gender. In a split decision Wednesday, the Tenth Circuit...
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed into law a landmark package of bills to restrict children and teens’ use of social media and artificial intelligence chatbots deemed harmful. The first-in-the nation suite of online...
WTC Health Program wants to examine the health impacts of 9/11 on people who were young New Yorkers at the time and were near Ground Zero.
The University of California Berkeley Law School’s admission practices discriminated against Asian and white applicants, the federal Justice and Education departments alleged on Wednesday. The federal agencies’...
San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney announced this week that she plans to step down after eight years leading the university. “It has been an honor to serve the CSU and the greatest honor to serve as...
Colorado officials will hash out new rules for publicly funded homeschool enrichment programs over the next few months.
Revelations about a federal investigation into the donor’s company resulted in the donation being “mutually” called off, the institution said.
Parents of elementary school students in San Rafael City Schools will be allowed to opt their children out of classroom activities that they believe violate their religious beliefs, reported the Marin Independent...
The Trump administration took an unprecedented move last week when it sued the Kansas City, Kansas, school district over how it handles student gender identity issues. The Department of Justice has accused the district...
COLUMBIA — South Carolina will stop pulling money from orphaned foster children’s benefits if the Department of Social Services can get enough funding to cover their care, Gov. Henry McMaster announced Tuesday. The...
The fate of bipartisan bills is in doubt at the congressional level, while state-level proposals have stalled in the legislatures.
The Denver school board is set to discuss alleged policy violations by two of its members at a meeting Wednesday.
A student poses for a back-to-school photo at Elliot Street School on Tues., Sept. 8, 2026 in Newark.
UC Merced is adding more school districts to its guaranteed admissions program. Over the years, UC Merced’s admissions program has grown to more than 60 school districts across the state. Last week, it expanded its...
Indianapolis Public School students can receive a zero on assignments again, but only if they make zero effort to complete them. The IPS school board updated the district’s grading policy to remove the district’s...
The federal Job Corps youth training program, under threat of shutdown by the Trump administration since May, 2025, will remain open after a group of students successfully fought the closure in federal court. The U.S....
California's State Board of Education is set to decide Wednesday whether to approve a list of 37 professional development programs for TK-5 literacy instruction amid criticism from advocates that the selection contains...
Colorado Homeschool Enrichment, a program with 48 campuses in Colorado, will not offer publicly funded classes for home-schoolers this year.
The bill seeks to keep all special education, postsecondary, Native American, and elementary and secondary education activities within the agency.
Community college officials now oppose bills to expand access to bachelor’s degrees after California lawmakers made last-minute changes to the legislation, which officials say will create more barriers to offering...
The Association of Clovis Educators (ACE), which is backed by the California Teachers Association, last week filed an intervention petition with the state labor board in hopes of forcing an election among Clovis Unified...
By approving the policy Thursday, the State University System of Florida’s board effectively shut undocumented students out of its 12 institutions.
Results of the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress show many students continue to struggle in reading.
Colorado announced this week five of the eight finalists for the 2027 Colorado Teacher of the Year award. The state plans to announce the other three finalists next week.
Three weeks into an all-day cellphone ban, some Modesto High School students are struggling with the transition, The Modesto Bee reported. Students are prohibited from using their phones at any point during the school...