A tale of two schools — one in Miami and the other in Chicago — that received federal school improvement grants suggests that readiness mattered more than money. (Politico)
Conservative school board candidates in Colorado fared poorly on Election Day. Here’s why that matters across the country. (Chalkbeat)
And here’s how education policy initiatives fared in other places. (The Atlantic)
The scandal that brought down Chicago’s schools chief could be coming to a superintendent near you. (Catalyst)
Less than half of Illinois high school graduates test as ready for college. (St. Louis Dispatch)
Michigan test scores plummet on tougher new exam, but officials say they aren’t freaking out. (MLive)
Is the fight over education reform in Michigan dooming the state to a bottom 10 ranking among the states? (Detroit News)
Ohio’s state superintendent says he’s stepping down at the end of the year. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
Big charter school grant put on hold by the U.S. Department of Education after questions about the truthfulness of its application. (Washington Post)
Democrat who made early childhood a campaign centerpiece defeated in shocking upset in Kentucky’s governors race. (NY Times)
The controversy over a list of “Got to Go” students at a Success Academy school in New York reflects broader issues in charter schools. (Vox)
Ben Carson’s vision for school funding reform is “more progressive than anything even Bernie Sanders has proposed.” (Vox)
A Memphis charter school that attracted national attention because its teachers walk students home got a TV appearance and $50,000 this week. (EllenTube)
A new study found that living near affluent neighborhoods is especially damaging for poor boys. (The Marshall Project)
Two bills that are starting points for revisions to No Child Left Behind take different approaches to testing. (Politics K-12)
From least to most likely, an interactive primer on all of the people who might be Los Angeles’s next schools chief. (L.A. Times)
Opponents of a successful bond measure in a Dallas suburb warned that new schools would bring poor students. (Slate)
Hundreds of students walked out of Berkeley High School in California to protest a racist incident there. (Berkeleyside)
A father who has experienced the downside of competition in his appliance business weighs in on the growing school marketplace. (WBEZ)
After 20 years around New York City schools, Sol Stern says the big problem facing them is progressive education. (City Journal)
California’s new pre-kindergarten program is open only to children born in the last quarter of the year. (Hechinger Report)