Yale, Columbia, Brown and a raft of other institutions warned of damages to the national research system from “draconian” research funding cuts.
Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage. The post Sally the robot was coming to a New York school. Then the plug was pulled....
OKLAHOMA CITY — State leaders say they’re still pursuing solutions to reverse a yearslong decline in traditionally trained teachers entering the classroom, all while emergency certified educators continue to fill...
We’re rounding up recent stories, from civil rights groups slamming a regulatory change to a ruling against the administration’s approach to grant cuts.
Head Start, the federal program providing free early education for low-income children, has benefited from strong bipartisan support since its 1965 inception, withstanding funding cuts and political turbulence across 11...
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When students return to school this fall in the Salamanca City Central...
By some metrics, things are looking up for the Providence Public School District (PPSD). Students are coming to class more often. Their standardized test scores are rising. And more of them are graduating high school....
BOSTON — Tatiyana Reaves got into trouble recently for writing a one-syllable word — and not the one you’d think. Taking a computer class at her Fayetteville, N.C., high school, she handed in a paper with the offending...
The U.S. Department of Justice found the district routinely violated its own policies and Missouri law when it relied on seclusion and restraint as a regular practice, rather than a final resort. The post DOJ probe...
Conversations about AI in education often start with the right question: Is there evidence of the effects of this technology? The post AI is rapidly changing education and research needs to keep up appeared first on...
A student raises his hand in a classroom at Providence Cristo Rey High School in May 2019. Cristo Rey is one of several schools in the Indianapolis area that accepts Indiana Choice Scholarships.
Better financial communication can bolster transparency, experts said at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ conference.
Voters cast their ballots in 2024 in Chicago. Hilario Dominguez, a candidate for Chicago school board president, has been accused of breaking campaign finance rules.
The U.S. Department of Education announced that data showing racial disparities in schools won't be the sole basis for future civil rights investigations.
SEIU, which represents school janitors, crossing guards, bus aides, and special education assistants, endorsed Jessica Biggs for school board president Thursday. Their endorsements diverge from those of the Chicago...
Desks and chairs arranged in classroom at high school
Pueblo Classical Academy won't re-open in the fall, leaders announced this month.
It’s been a difficult year for Mary Moody, owner of the top-rated Silver Bluff Kids Early Learning Center in Haywood County. She said her business has struggled since federal pandemic funds used to keep childcare...
The four remaining candidates for Michigan governor agree that improving literacy is a priority. They face off in Aug. 4 primaries.
You probably know that it’s been a choppy semiquincentennial summer here in the District of Columbia. The National Mall’s murky, smelly reflecting pool and the sparsely attended American State Fair made national news....
Commonwealth Charter Academy has acquired a 32,000 square-foot building in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard.
The ruling is the latest in the long-running Sweet v. McMahon settlement, which promises timely decisions on borrower defense claims or automatic debt relief.
Jude Julien (pictured in the upper row, center) teaches at the Virtual Innovators Academy, the city's only fully virtual public high school.
BILOXI, Miss. — When nine young adults tossed their mortarboards into the air at the Little Biloxi Theatre on June 20, it wasn’t their first time graduating from high school. After an emotional celebration that honored...
School districts and community organizations are hosting events to offer free backpacks and school supplies.
An AI-powered, billionaire-backed chain of private schools intends to educate students with two hours of virtual learning a day and entrepreneurship workshops. The post A $40,000-per-year AI school with no teachers is...
In April, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that the 50 states and Washington, D.C., took in $1 trillion in federal, state and local revenue for K-12 public education in the 2023-24 school year. One....
DPSCD board chair LaTrice McClendon, left, and vice chair Corletta Vaughn, are not running for reelection. They are shown in a June 2025 meeting reading a statement about a district student who had been detained by...
Students at CICS West Belden school work in the classroom at the Chicago charter school.
Together4Students recruits fellows ages 16 to 25 to train them to be education advocates as the state takeover of MSCS stalls in court.