Childcare providers in Illinois are technically required to carry coins with them when they take children on an outing, like a walk or a field trip. Why would a childcare provider need to bring pocket change along?...
New York City parents and advocates rally against AI in schools on Thursday, April 16, 2026. While many parents have joined the movement against technology in education, polling indicates that the majority of parents...
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.
The bans, coupled with a new APA report, signal a shift from rapid AI adoption toward more deliberate evaluation.
All summer, Dr. Marvia Jones worried over the data. Jones, director of the Kansas City Health Department in Missouri, read reports showing that not enough public school students were up-to-date with their vaccinations...
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....
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.
If institutions lose their tax-exempt status over diversity efforts, they could face a loss of gifts and higher borrowing costs among other hits, analysts said.
The parents of a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old were detained near the children’s elementary school in San Diego Unified School District on Wednesday, shortly after morning drop-off. The arrest happened around 8:45 a.m....
When a 20-year-old New Yorker recently reflected on her high school experience, she said the things she learned weren’t “very helpful to where I am now.” “I don’t really think most of my classes that I took in high...
A little over a month after the Trump administration debuted its proposal to dramatically reduce Head Start standards, a clearer picture is emerging of what those changes might mean for the 1,600 local programs across...
Boulder Valley School District will begin to address antisemitic harassment and discrimination in the schools by creating a new executive-level role to handle all Title VI complaints. The post Boulder school district...
School districts are under increasing pressure to do more with less. Budgets are tightening, academic recovery coming out of the pandemic remains unfinished in many communities, and educators, administrators and parents...
Efforts by the Ivy League institution to foster open conversations have helped raise its score with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
Roughly 1 in 5 teens are turning to AI chatbots for mental health support — and that number is only growing.
Using AI in IEP meetings can benefit parents and teachers – if done correctly.
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...
Irvington Community Elementary Principal Katie Welch, left, and Irvington Community Schools CEO Rachel Maldonado stand behind Irvington Community Elementary and look at the land that's the site for a proposed data...
Children stream into P.S. 107 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, for the first day of school. The city's new policy limits student-facing AI for elementary and middle schoolers and bans individual devices before third grade.
The public institution said it is facing “some of the most significant challenges in its 176-year history.”
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’...
Most student programming after the final school bell offers science, technology, engineering and math activities, but rural youth still lack access, according to a recent national survey. The Afterschool Alliance found...
Nearly 86,000 of California’s children ages 0 to 3 — more than 5% of the state’s infants and toddlers — are estimated to have experienced homelessness in 2023-24, according to new data analysis by SchoolHouse Connection...
Kids are not only using A.I. to answer questions. They’re using it to identify which questions to ask. The post Can students embrace tech innovation without losing critical thinking skills? appeared first on District...
Students around the world continue to fall further and further behind in the core subjects of reading and math, according to the release of scores from a widely cited standardized test on Tuesday. Meanwhile, their use...
Workforce cuts continued into the summer as institutions prepped for a new academic year in leaner times.
Some schools across the country are using a customizable AI chatbot to talk to students about their mental health.
Some schools across the country are using a customizable AI chatbot to talk to students about their mental health.
As NYC schools open, Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces major questions about falling enrollment, special education, school technology, and the shape of his broader K-12 agenda.
Revelations about a federal investigation into the donor’s company resulted in the donation being “mutually” called off, the institution said.