Superintendent Alex Marrero did not say Friday whether Denver Public Schools would comply with the Trump administration’s proposed resolution.
Superintendent Alex Marrero did not say Friday whether Denver Public Schools would comply with the Trump administration’s proposed resolution.
New standards for school lunches and hospital meals include a ban on processed meats and restrictions on artificial colors, additives, and preservatives.
The Margaret McFarland Learning Academy, previously known as the district’s ROOTS program, serves students with the most intensive needs.
Before Thursday’s budget vote, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office and Chicago Public Schools officials tussled for weeks over whether the district should take out a high-cost loan for a pension payment.
Teachers and other school staff will receive annual 3% raises under the new 3-year contract.
President Trump has made targeting protections for LGBTQ students a key part of his second term. Denver Public Schools says it is determining its next steps.
The transit authority has agreed to restore some bus lines that serve students after they were eliminated as part of sweeping transit cuts.
At M.S. 50, educators believe that student debaters make the best arguments when they believe what they’re saying — and it draws on their own experiences.
Renovations to the former Forest Manor Middle School building are part of a new beginning for Andrew J. Brown Academy, which broke ties with a for-profit charter operator last year.
The department had mulled moving its division handling public school safety from a community bureau to the office of Chief of Department John Chell.
MSCS earned the highest score in the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System for the fourth year in a row. But younger students lost progress in social studies, falling behind expected growth.
One remembered floating corpses. Another recalled kids living without their parents. And getting laid off couldn’t keep a determined math teacher and football coach away from the city’s students.
The resignation of the Irvington Community Schools board chair — and the vote to remove a second member from the board — follows heightened criticism from students, parents, and staff over conflicts of interest in the charter network’s search for a new CEO.
Though the district is still behind statewide averages, it has shown consistent improvement over the course of 11 years.
A student is chronically absent if they miss 10% or more of their school days. The new data is bad news for the state’s goal to cut chronic absenteeism in half.
Dan Weisberg, the system’s second-in-command, and Deputy Chancellor Emma Vadehra, are stepping down. The pair were leading implementation of a new class size mandate.
Beech Grove is teaming up with the programs run by Stride/K12 to respond to growth in virtual enrollment.
State Superintendent Michael Rice said the Michigan Legislature must provide children with lower class sizes in high poverty K-3 classrooms, more in-person instructional time, and funding for more research-based early literacy materials.
The public hearing to discuss and vote on extending Superintendent Roger León’s contract is not listed on the district’s website, but is scheduled to take place in September.
In a potentially final bid to whip up support for its budget, CPS officials said the desire to reimburse the city for a much-debated pension payment and taking out a $200 million loan would result in cuts to schools and a credit downgrade for the district.
Mayor Brandon Johnson picked Ángel Vélez, a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant and native Puerto Rican who lives in West Englewood, to represent neighborhoods from Canaryville to Auburn Gresham. He will be sworn in the same day the school board is set to take a pivotal budget vote ahead of a Friday deadline to get a spending plan in place.
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Four of the seven board seats are up for grabs in the Nov. 4 election.
Officials aim to bring in 3,700 extra new teachers on top of normal annual hiring to help reduce class sizes across the city.
The selection of Glenn Maleyko as the next state superintendent in Michigan is pending contract negotiations. He is expected to begin the job by Oct. 4.
The delayed placements come even as Chicago Public Schools has added more than 100 programs serving exclusively students with disabilities.
Experts say the district must improve its credit rating and deal with aging buildings.
The charter school has appealed a court ruling that it must close. The district has singled out its students’ struggles on standardized tests.
The move to strip money from Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and other states is the federal government’s latest effort to control what children learn and advance the president’s views about biological sex.
MSCS is in no position to turn down money that could ease growing maintenance issues. But a small group of students is protesting xAI’s investment over environmental concerns.
Mike Montgomery was named 2025 Outstanding Teacher by the nonprofit Colorado Agriculture in the Classroom.
Charter schools have grown in student enrollment and political clout since coming to Indiana in 2001. Will recent changes finally push IPS into becoming an all-charter system?
Colorado lawmakers called a special session to address the 2026 federal budget, including a cut to spending on food benefits.
Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos sits down with P.S. Weekly student journalists to preview the new school year, discussing the cellphone ban, restorative justice, and the SHSAT.
Students say less-reliable transit will make them late for class. Teachers say they’ve received little guidance about what to do when that happens.
From SEPTA cuts to school vouchers, here’s what we’re keeping our eyes on this year.
The announcement ends the legal battle over a state law that requires districts to give unused school buildings to interested charter schools for the sale or lease price of $1.
A state budget impasse clouded the first day of school in Michigan as students returned to class but lawmakers have failed to pass a budget to determine how schools will be funded.
The three-year agreement, announced hours before students returned to classrooms, could end the threat of a teachers strike this school year.
Superintendent Roger León’s current contract has three years remaining, but the Newark Board of Education has quietly taken steps to extend his tenure an additional two years.
The Trump administration's budget cuts in 2026 could halt research on life-saving treatments, result in job losses, and hurt the economy in every U.S. congressional district, a new study says.