The day ICE agents detained Liam Conejo Ramos was ‘sad and infuriating,’ his school district superintendent said. She’d hoped her students wouldn’t be targeted.
For six years, city officials propped up school budgets despite steep enrollment declines. It’s now up to Mayor Zohran Mamdani to decide whether to keep the policy or wind it down.
The day ICE agents detained Liam Conejo Ramos was ‘sad and infuriating,’ his school district superintendent said. She’d hoped her students wouldn’t be targeted.
Indiana legislators are advancing a bill banning phones from schools and another to cut low-earning degrees at state universities.
These Philadelphia families chose small high schools. Now the district says they won’t be an option.
The district’s school closure proposal includes shuttering five magnet or citywide admissions high schools.
Colorado lawmakers want to help prospective teachers who have run into legal trouble. A bill under consideration would only require licensure applicants to disclose misdemeanors that happened within the last seven years.
The end of Alma’s work no the search is the latest twist in a search process that began last spring and hasn’t yet produced a permanent CEO. Six elected board members are blaming the mayor’s office and its allies for ‘sabotaging’ the process.
The coalition statement reflects months of tension between lawmakers, reform groups, and community members. It comes as lawmakers are debating an IPS governance overhaul that would leave the elected board with less power.
The board voted Tuesday night to spend $4.3 million to hire additional security for the rest of the school year.
The Citywide Council on High Schools wants NYC to mandate career aptitude assessments for all ninth and 11th graders. But researchers say adults are still needed to interpret results.
DPSCD Superintendent lauded the mayor’s efforts to see greater coordination between the city and district and charter schools.
Tennessee House Republicans passed a measure allowing public schools to display the Ten Commandments over Democrats’ objections of constitutional concerns.
The Newark Board of Education election is scheduled for April 21. This year, four seats are up for grabs.
An exchange between two education writers on the value of admitting students who need remedial support to selective universities like UCSD.
Board members were divided in a vote Wednesday to promote the interim leader to a full-time gig. Some argued a full search would be needed for transparency, while others stressed the urgency for stability.
Under federal law, degrees must raise graduates’ earnings above those of a typical high school graduate.
Students Demand Action’s Colorado chapter rallied at the Capitol to support legislation that would make it harder to create illegal guns. The group ramped up its presence at the Capitol after the 2023 East High School shooting.
Cost concerns and competing priorities hindered a planned expansion that would have opened the school to more students without auditions.
The budget Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed Wednesday would increase taxes in some areas, such as for cigarette purchases, to raise revenue in Michigan.
Some school board members raised concerns about the first semester ending after winter break in the next two school years. Chicago Public Schools officials said their proposed calendar is an option preferred by most surveyed families.
Minnesota superintendents say their districts feel the effects of immigration enforcement every day. They’re suing the Department of Homeland Security to restore ‘sensitive locations’ protections.
Three charters are leaning on their overseer, Chicago Public Schools, to help with making payroll. Critics argue fiscal missteps are the cause of the fiscal distress, but charter advocates counter it’s due to district underfunding.
The group discussed a variety of topics, but among the top five priorities was combating chronic absenteeism
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Interim Superintendent Roderick Richmond said Tuesday that no official findings or conclusions have been reached in the $6 million investigation, despite state lawmakers insisting on ‘concerning’ early results.
Hundreds of students walked out of class to speak against ICE last week leaving schools to strike a balance between student expression and student safety.
Many Philadelphia students are exposed to constant violence. Some schools are responding with extra care.
The district received a waiver from the Tennessee Department of Education after taking two full weeks off of class. That exceeded MSCS’ built-in snow days by two, prompting the need for state assistance.
FirstStepNYC was built as a demonstration program to work with families from pregnancy until kindergarten. Its founder thinks the city should look to it as a model once again.
At Central 9, students train for careers in veterinary science, firefighting, early education, and more as Indiana expands focus on workforce training in high school.
The MSCS board is set to vote Wednesday on whether to initiate a full search process as interim leader Roderick Richmond’s contract expires. The decision comes as state lawmakers push to upend the district leadership system.
A libertarian-leaning advocacy group has persuaded more than two dozen Illinois counties and townships to place a nonbinding question on next month’s primary ballot supporting a new federal tax-credit scholarship program backed by the Trump administration.
Not many more, according to a careful parsing of recent data.
The decision to relinquish the charter for its South Bend campus will help stabilize long-term operations for its two Indianapolis campuses, the charter network said.
“When every child reads, Michigan wins,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said.
The judge ruled Monday that the county commission’s bid to put all nine school board seats up for election this year is invalid. That saves five MSCS board members from facing shortened terms.
At Lankenau Environmental High School, educators said the district should protect the campus’ unique offerings. At Paul Robeson High School, families worried the school’s land has been targeted for redevelopment.
The parents of slain Fishers teenager Hailey Buzbee spoke in support of a social media restriction for children and teens.
Two Democratic lawmakers proposed boosting state education funding, a priority for the Chicago Teachers Union. They estimated that would require the state, which faces its own financial pressures, to chip in an additional $550 million to $1 billion more a year.
Joe Borelli, a Republican appointed to the school by former Mayor Eric Adams, immediately faced criticism from the chair of the Panel for Educational policy.
Possible middle school closures and a relocation in Manhattan’s District 3 are sparking backlash from families. How the city responds will begin to define Mamdani’s approach to parent engagement.
Over 100 Indianapolis students protested Immigration and Customs Enforcement in one of the latest student-driven “ICE out” demonstrations.
The candidates participated in an education forum hosted by the Michigan Education Association.
Newark Public Schools and other districts could see upgrades to their buildings under a new bill proposed by Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz that would ask voters to authorize state bonds.