Politics & Policy
The ruling represents a loss for four school districts, three charter schools, and a public education cooperative.
Families are increasingly choosing online public schools, even as research has raised concerns about their academic results.
Families are wondering what they’ll do if programs don’t open, said the head of a bilingual outdoor education program for homeschoolers.
A failed Arizona ballot initiative sought new limits on one of the nation’s most expansive school choice programs — and exposed a key split among voucher supporters.
“Anyone can be a Monday morning quarterback, but I am proud of ERBOCES,” said one District 49 board member.
A new paper traces how family income, test scores, and educational spending rise together — leaving the least advantaged students in the least-resourced colleges.
“I interpret the lack of suitors to be a collective, statewide referendum on ERBOCES, and their dissolution is therefore correct,” said one board member.
The Trump administration has canceled teen pregnancy prevention grants for three New York organizations as it shifts to boosting an abstinence-based approach to sex ed.
The ruling invalidates a school board appointment and a 2025 agreement that allowed the opening of a ‘public Christian school.’
“There was an agreement signed in 2013 that I feel compelled to honor,” said Lance Bolton, the president of Pikes Peak State College.
Low- and high-poverty districts tend to spend more than those in the middle. This Chalkbeat Ideas roundup also examines where COVID relief went, why testing moved online, and whether “college for all” was ever really the message.
Technology was often sold as a shortcut to better learning, but now amid a backlash, schools risk abandoning useful tools along with the bad ones, says ISTE leader Richard Culatta
Studies tracking nearly identical students on opposite sides of admissions cutoffs find sizable economic gains, even among those without top grades or test scores.
NYC public schools will adopt systemwide rules and appoint dedicated liaisons to help students missing school due to severe anxiety, depression, or other disabilities.
Moving special education oversight to Health and Human Services appears to have spurred a Senate committee vote to reverse some of Trump’s moves to break up the Education Department.
Teacher attrition peaked in many places around 2022 and has since declined. But years of churn have reshaped faculties, strained school leaders, and may have slowed academic recovery.
Dozens of education department employees were aware that Riverstone Academy planned to use two Christian curriculums.
A governor-appointed board has approved dozens of charter schools over objections from state education officials. Proponents say that’s a good thing.
The school was unsuccessful in its bid to become a charter school.
Together4Students wants MSCS to drop its lawsuit over the state takeover. It’s training young fellows to rally support.