First-person education stories

Chicagoans will vote for 10 of 21 members in the city’s first school board election. Here are six things you should know as the election cycle kicks off.

One proposes to improve accountability, though critics call it harmful. The other would open up a source of construction funds.

Candidates need to collect 1,000 signatures by June 24, 2024 to get on the Nov. 5 ballot for Chicago’s 10 elected school board seats.

Carolyne Quintana, a deputy chancellor who oversees the department’s signature literacy initiative, is leaving at the end of the school year.

Maestros en estos puestos describen sentirse abrumados mientras intentan apoyar a muchos estudiantes que son nuevos en el país en clases mucho más numerosas de lo normal.

This year, fifth and eighth grade students will shift to computer-based state exams. Some educators worry the move will affect performance.

The board was considering a policy that prohibited members from blocking people or deleting comments based on the views expressed.

The guidance is new this spring and comes in response to the influx of newcomer students.

Experts say taking away science or social studies is not the solution to low reading scores.

The proposal would create a new department that would transition programs from three state agencies to one.

An estimated 78,000 teachers, firefighters and nurses are among the group of borrowers who will see their debts canceled under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

The ballot initiative to raise the real estate transfer tax on property sales over $1 million in order to raise revenue for homelessness and affordable housing was one of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s key campaign promises.

Students in Washington, D.C. were less likely to miss school on days they had a scheduled tutoring session. Researchers think the relationship kids build with tutors has a lot to do with that.

Los graduados de la escuela secundaria de este año serán elegibles para más de 14.000 nuevas becas ofrecidas a través de Opportunity Next Colorado. Pueden elegir entre carreras como ingeniería, profesionales de la salud, especialistas en informática, así como construcción, familia y ciencias sociales, educación, manufactura avanzada y más.

Los padres sin número de Seguro Social ya pueden contribuir a la FAFSA. La solicitud FAFSA ayuda a los estudiantes a obtener ayuda financiera y pagar por la universidad.

Every school will have certain guaranteed staff, including an assistant principal, a counselor, and core classroom teachers, under a new funding formula officials plan to use starting next school year.

On Wednesday, groups that support students considered to be at-risk asked legislators to continue to increase funding for programs that benefit children with high needs.

The data comes as state education officials are engaged in a multi-year effort to rethink high school graduation requirements.

Martinez said the district is working to find other options for transportation, such as adjusting bell times, but CPS has struggled to hire more bus drivers.

Mayor Eric Adams is cutting nearly $7 million from NYC’s after-school program, scrapping about 3,500 seats at a time when interest in programs is on the rise.

The charter school’s building needs to be rezoned to open and going to the Indianapolis City-County Council is the next step.

Screening students, for example, has taken up a lot more time for some teachers.

Children First’s proposal could mean nearly $100 million in additional aid for the city’s public schools.

Northeast High School Principal Omar Crowder said the school has provided additional mental health services and police patrols near the school have increased after a shooting wounded eight students March 6.

Sherry Gay-Dagnogo cast the lone dissenting vote on Superintendent Nikolai Vitti’s contract extension, citing the timing of the vote.

The decision written by Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett focuses on whether government officials use accounts to act in their official capacity.

As grant funding ends, the programs are seeking support to pay tutors and help more high school kids with ‘getting their creativity out.‘

The proposal would widen criteria for determining which students could be held back — and give parents a say.

Two years after first introduced, lawmakers began considering bills aimed at preventing violence in Michigan schools.

Dual language programs are meant to teach students in English and another language.

Maha Hasen has made it her mission to bring computer science to Fordham High School for the Arts and reach more girls.

Federal law that protects the educational rights of homeless children and youth under 21 says young adults should be enrolled in school immediately, but the city is not meeting this requirement, advocates say.

La ley federal protege los derechos a la educación de los niños y jóvenes menores de 21 años sin hogar y establece que los jóvenes adultos deben ser matriculados inmediatamente en la escuela, pero la ciudad no está cumpliendo este requisito, dicen los defensores.

The report’s recommendations include ones that require cooperation from the city and other organizations.