Six interagency agreements move core functions of the Education Department to other departments. Special ed is not affected, yet.
The MSCS board voted Tuesday to hire a lawyer who will assess the legality of cutting short five members' terms in the 2026 race. Candidate filing starts next month.
Adams added the after-school seats at 75 schools just 43 days before leaving office.
Six interagency agreements move core functions of the Education Department to other departments. Special ed is not affected, yet.
‘The number of students became so big that I had to find new ways for them to get involved,’ said Stephen Paulson.
The City Council also pressed school officials about why the principals union has not had a contract since August.
“Get your kid in the classroom, give them that head start, give them the winning edge,” parent Blake Kish recommends. “We are shaping the future of Michigan.”
Redistricting has dominated headlines and lawmakers’ time. But deregulation and the future of IPS may be in the cards in 2026.
Lawmakers cut to a Colorado FAFSA coordinator means school counselors won’t get data they can use to help students struggling to fill out the form.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Democrats still have an edge, according to a review of over a dozen polls.
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Monarch Montessori wants to add sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, but Superintendent Alex Marrero has concerns.
Students in juvenile detention often don’t receive required special education support and struggle to reengage with school when they’re released.
A group of seven mothers who serve as parent mentors in Chicago Public Schools are trying to help families in their communities amid the Trump administration’s increased immigration enforcement in Chicago.
The request for a Supreme Court hearing comes about six weeks after a federal appeals court ruled against the Catholic preschools.
Detroit school district agrees to controversial condition for state mental health and safety funding
Districts must agree to state investigations if a mass casualty event happens in order to get the funds.
Recent data doesn’t definitively prove all closings lead to higher gun violence, but they do show areas where it worsened after closure that can’t be explained by citywide spikes.
Each of the schools at risk of closing this year will have a meeting over the next two months. The first will be at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at Frayser-Corning Elementary School.
Board members have floated the idea as a potential way to right-size the district, but have stressed they would not act on it without community input.
A spokesman for the Michigan Department of Education said a policy change for the after-school snack program would have to go through the federal government.
Despite a City Councilmember’s support for the sale of a vacant Ada Lewis building, district officials say the school board has not been involved in conversations about selling it.
The new test scores also show a statewide decline in reading proficiency.
Youngquist didn’t say much before the censure vote. He has previously said that the investigation was retaliatory and he intends ‘to take legal action.’
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Youngquist didn’t say much before the censure vote. He has previously said that the investigation was retaliatory and he intends ‘to take legal action.’
Michigan law allows parents to opt their children out of sex education lessons.
The new 2025-27 teacher contract bumps the minimum starting salary to $54,800.
Last year, more than 27,000 of the city’s roughly 136,000 free child care seats for kids ages 4 and under went unfilled, about 1 in every 5 seats.
We’ve got answers to that and other questions from a new tranche of state testing data
Student privacy and mental health advocates are concerned about a no-cost contract between the school district and for-profit Hazel Health, which is set to renew in December.
Nearly all of the city’s eighth graders who took the Specialized High School Admissions Test this week had no issues with the new computerized format.
The $1,000 grants allow qualifying students to get tutoring from approved vendors.
DPSCD has schools tailored to students’ interests and career pathways. Here’s what to consider before applying.
A Tennessee school district is asking a federal judge to dismiss a Williamson County teacher’s First Amendment lawsuit after it reinstated her at Franklin High School.
The city’s highest-need schools stand to benefit the least from the new class size caps, and a group of advocates want to give the city time to negotiate changes to the law.
The district’s mobile food pantry will be at Raleigh-Egypt High School on Nov. 17 and Douglass High School on Nov. 22, starting at 9:30 a.m.
The new state budget also includes $10 million for literacy instruction and initiatives.
The TEDxCU club at the University of Colorado Boulder felt it needed to change plans after the September Charlie Kirk shooting at Utah Valley University.
Increased mayoral control over Indianapolis Public Schools and the city’s charters could mirror how schools are run in New York City and Washington, D.C. But would it work smoothly with Unigov?
Backed by a five-year $3.75 million federal grant, Rutgers University will train special education teachers for administrative roles.
The legislation, supported by 47 of the City Council’s 51 members, would bring relief to thousands of paraprofessionals, whose starting salary is $32,000.
The budget will send $193 million more to Philly schools and add accountability reforms for cyber charter schools, among other changes.
Christian law firm’s search for test case led to religious public school in Colorado, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
MSCS has four schools with designated deaf education programs. But parents say there aren’t enough ASL interpreters or trained teachers to help students succeed.