This Week in K-12 Leadership | October 19, 2026

Growing Demand for Change: Transcending the Constraints of Existing School Models

This Week in K-12 Leadership · October 19, 2026

Class Disrupted is an education podcast featuring author Michael Horn and Futre’s Diane Tavenner in conversation with educators, school leaders, students and other members of school communities as they investigate the...

Superintendent Moves: Week of October 12

Policy & Legislation

New York City’s free 2-K program will expand to include an additional 10,000 seats across all five boroughs beginning next fall, according to an announcement made Monday by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul. ...

College flags on the wall of Milby High School in Houston. Texas is one of several states that has dropped a policy allowing undocumented students to receive in-state tuition at state universities.

Former County Commissioner Britney Thornton said she supports the state takeover of MSCS because local leadership has consistently failed students.

Chicago’s mayor annually declares a TIF surplus that helps Chicago Public Schools financially. But it can bring unpredictability to the district’s budgeting process.

Giving students a say also offered a lesson in civics and capital project funding, a New York district administrator told ASBO conference attendees.

A voter reviews the Cook County public question asking whether Illinois should impose a 3% surcharge on income above $1 million and divide the revenue between property-tax relief and public education.

Jitu Brown and LaPamela Williams are running for Chicago school board district 5A.

To choose the teaching profession in New Hampshire is to navigate a series of financial trade-offs. The median salary for K-12 teachers in 2024 was $66,123, enough to comfortably afford a $1,653 monthly rent...

California’s test scores, rising but still below prepandemic levels, demonstrate that the state’s schools have more work to do, according to Sonja Shaw and Richard Barrera, candidates for California’s superintendent...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul greet Queens preschool students in May, 2026. The city's free program for two-year-olds is expanding to 12,000 kids next year.

More is better: That is the conventional wisdom when it comes to graduating from high school. The more students get pushed across the finish line, the better for everyone. Policy has followed that principle, and it has...

One of the most familiar claims in education is that teachers are the most important in-school factor for student learning. It also happens to be well-supported by research. But states aren’t acting on it. According to...

The data breach involved Educational Testing Service, or ETS, which provides extensive services to California.

While AI has become increasingly popular among teachers, professional development over the technology's use has been less consistent.

California’s rural colleges can help communities navigate the AI era by preparing workers for changing professions, addressing workforce shortages and developing the human skills technology cannot replace.

Tragedies like the one in Bend., Ore., draw public outcry, but typically not swift change on school safety.

Authorities in Bend, Ore., said the attacker gained entry by shooting through locked doors.

This story was published in partnership with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Georgia has become a preferred destination for the multi-billion dollar, A.I.-fueled data center industry. This year, construction activity...

Hechinger Report · Oct 15

I did not wait for my start date. My official first day as director of the Del Valle Independent School District’s Disciplinary Alternative Education Program was July 22, 2015. I walked onto campus weeks before then. I...

Students line up to enter their classrooms at Charles M. Schenck Community School on the first day of school in August. Southwest Denver, where CMS Community School is located, has been hit hard by declining enrollment.

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