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The Detroit school board is now seeking applicants interested in serving out the remainder of Angelique Peterson-Mayberry’s term.
Nearly a third of city students start kindergarten at age 4. Not all of them are ready.
Growing up in a mischaracterized city and researching news deserts painted a clear picture that reporting is not a one-way street.
No one told me ‘you’ll miss cafeteria noise,’ or ‘you’ll feel phantom pain for your walkie talkie,’ but I did.
Here’s what I learned developing a unit on the Underground Railroad - and why we changed course.
The Detroit school board is now seeking applicants interested in serving out the remainder of Angelique Peterson-Mayberry’s term.
Education leaders learned of the freeze Monday, hours before the money was due to be available.
The legislation includes big Medicaid cuts, a new voucher-like school choice program, stricter limits on food aid that has implications for free school meals, and more money for immigration enforcement.
The state feels another pinch from the administration’s crackdown on DEI initiatives.
The wellness check requirement, passed into state law last year, was inspired in part by the death of a 12-year-old Commonwealth Charter Academy student.
Nearly a third of city students start kindergarten at age 4. Not all of them are ready.
Converting to a charter school would have provided the K-8 school an additional $400,000 per year, according to one official, that would have funded a new foreign language teacher and a school resource officer.
Colorado hasn’t received about $70 million in federal education funds after the Trump administration refused to release billions in K-12 dollars.
Michigan’s State Superintendent Michael Rice said the withholding of the federal funding would hurt some of the state’s most vulnerable children.
Board members debated Columbus, colonizers, and Black Lives Matter during several meetings about choosing a curriculum.
Federal officials say California must delete mentions of gender identity and trans people from federally funded sex ed materials that reach about 13,000 students, or else lose $6 million.
Congress approved the support for English learners and afterschool programs. But the dollars expected on July 1 are now on hold, creating ‘unnecessary uncertainty,’ Sanders says.
Uptown Lacrosse joins the growing list of organizations helping kids in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx access the sport.
Last school year, most of the district’s standalone middle schools enrolled less than half the number of students they were built for.
The district is changing how it assigns staff serving students with disabilities as labor unions voice concerns.
The Trump administration is withholding nearly $7 billion for education that has been approved by Congress and was supposed to go out starting July 1.