Layoffs and leakier pipelines: How Trump’s cuts to mental health grants are likely to affect schools
Colorado, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin are among the state education agencies that lost federal funding to hire and train more school-based mental health staff. Now schools may have to lay off social workers, while colleges may shut down training programs.
President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget would cut nearly $6 billion from K-12 education. Though unlikely to become law as written, the proposal offers insight into Trump’s plans.
Layoffs and leakier pipelines: How Trump’s cuts to mental health grants are likely to affect schools
Colorado, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin are among the state education agencies that lost federal funding to hire and train more school-based mental health staff. Now schools may have to lay off social workers, while colleges may shut down training programs.
Eighteen titles, including ‘The Bluest Eye’ and ‘The Kite Runner,’ were returned to library shelves this week.
Las clínicas de derecho ofrecen a los estudiantes una manera de adquirir experiencia con casos y clientes antes de graduarse. Y la administración Trump ha hecho que las clínicas de derecho para inmigrantes de las facultades sean más cruciales que nunca.
El distrito calificó las declaraciones del legislador de "infundadas e indignantes" y sus llamados "exponen conceptos erróneos profundamente arraigados sobre nuestro distrito y, más generalmente, los distritos escolares urbanos de Nueva Jersey".
The Texas governor tapped into a powerful national conservative movement and his own campaign war chest to turn legislative races into multimillion-dollar affairs.
Among the commission’s recommendations is asking Michigan officials to increase and expand access to care to support those at risk of suicide.
Board members also changed Marrero’s contract to eliminate performance bonuses, which the teachers union has criticized.
Overall, Adams’ executive budget proposes roughly $18.3 billion in city funding for the Education Department’s operating budget, a $670 million increase from this year.
The Michigan Education Corps this year is serving 3,740 children in early childhood and K-8 schools.
Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova told families in an email she plans to depart the district after 24 years as a teacher, principal, and district official. CPS CEO Pedro Martinez will also leave in June for a job leading Massachusetts schools after being fired without cause in December.
After fierce community pushback, the Education Department plans to phase out M.S. 394 over three years instead of closing it all at once.
Victory College Prep will go from one K-12 school to three separate schools. Indiana Math and Science Academy plans to open a third campus that will be for K-12 students.
Episode 4 of P.S. Weekly tackles teacher turnover and how turbulent relationships between teachers and administrators might be a major contributing factor.
A federal investigation now targets Chicago schools’ long-awaited Black Student Success Plan. State law mandated the Chicago Board of Education create a plan to “bring parity between Black children and their peers.”
Colorado ranks third in the nation, after Washington, D.C. and Vermont, for the share of 4-year-olds served in its state-funded preschool program.
Backers of a proposed religious charter school argue that charter schools are more private than public. The Supreme Court case could upend the charter sector, with implications for funding, autonomy and more.
The Illinois legislative session is scheduled to end on May 31. Lawmakers are considering several education bills and negotiating the fiscal year 2024 budget. Here is what Chalkbeat is following.
Some districts invested pandemic relief money in instructional coaches and increased time spent on math. Test scores suggest that strategy’s paying off.
Advocates warn that transferring federal special education oversight to another department could weaken enforcement of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and other disability rights laws, while jeopardizing funding, research, and implementation.
For decades, these clinics have provided a wide range of health care to students, offering vaccines, teeth cleaning, or help for mental health struggles, all at no cost.
The Education Department threatened the federal funding of states that wouldn’t comply with the administration’s anti-DEI interpretation of civil rights law. With that demand paused, states are suing to end it entirely.
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The Education Department threatened the federal funding of states that wouldn’t comply with the administration’s anti-DEI interpretation of civil rights law. With that demand paused, states are suing to end it entirely.
A presentation used to brief school board members and obtained by Chalkbeat outlined potential cuts, many of which include staff and programs supported by federal COVID relief money. District officials and school board members look to lobby City Hall and Illinois lawmakers for funding.
Republicans have proposed school safety reforms and more public school access for home-schooling students. Democratic proposals include restrictions on school building closures.
New and existing charter schools will go before authorizers to ask for new campuses in the city, mergers, and more. Some schools won’t open until the fall, but public meetings are getting underway.
The Trump administration has sought to exert greater federal control over higher education. Researchers visiting Denver rallied at the Capitol against the president’s actions.
Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti is urging the district community to reach out to lawmakers to express their concerns about potential education funding cuts.
Charter schools scored key funding wins in a legislative session that advocates say was monumental for charters. But traditional public schools are projected to lose millions.
The Education Department is using an emergency contract to buy 15 X-ray machines, circumventing the regular purchasing process.
Multiple parents reported problems with the election site Friday morning, including parents appearing on ballots for seats for which they are not running.
Lawmakers approved a cellphone ban and new turnaround model for public schools, but a bill targeting undocumented students failed.
The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance must submit a plan for sharing transportation and facilities between IPS and charter schools by the end of the year.
Funding for schools increases around 2% each year, with additional dollars in 2026 earmarked for an expansion of the school voucher program.
In addition to striking down the elective course requirement, Indiana lawmakers passed bills related to math instruction, sex ed, and partisan affiliations in school board races.
The school board’s vote seals the contract with the teachers union. The final deal includes limits on class sizes and more preparation time for elementary school teachers.
The school board has delayed its charter renewal votes for two months, leaving many charter families and educators wondering about the future of their schools.
The committee is mandated by state law, which was amended at the same time lawmakers drew electoral districts for Chicago’s first school board elections.
The Education Department had given states until Thursday to certify compliance with its controversial interpretation of civil rights law. Federal judges complicated that effort hours before the deadline.
Colorado university law clinics offer students a way to get experience with cases and clients before graduating. And the Trump administration has made the schools’ immigrant law clinics more crucial than ever.
At just 23, Arts High School alum David Daughety is among the youngest candidates elected to the Newark Board of Education after the district returned to local control in 2018.
Students at the Academy at Palumbo report broken bathrooms, poor ventilation, and rodents in their school and are urging the school district to make needed repairs.