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immigration
immigration

ICE Raids Caused Enrollment to Drop. Now Districts Are Paying the Price

As leaders ask lawmakers to help fill budget gaps, conservatives escalate the debate over serving undocumented students.

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Featured

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Aaliyah Hodge
civics education
civics education

How the Story of Young George Washington Offers Some Important Civic Lessons

A new movie connects with a civics curriculum that goes beyond memorizing dates and places to consider whether Washington made the right decisions.

Martin Slagter
Author: Martin Slagter
school choice
school choice

Auditor: School choice cost Iowans $258 million

Report analyzes impacts of Iowa’s Education Savings Accounts program.

Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch
Kristen Huff
Kristen Huff

Hope, Sadness and Uncertainty Follow After Carvalho Resigns as LAUSD Superintendent

Experts and advocates have emphasized the importance of providing continuity in a time of rapid change in district leadership.

Mallika Seshadri, EdSource
Pandemic

Online Parent-Teacher Conferences Aren't Great But Still Better Than In-Person

Alina Adams
Pandemic

Less Than Two-Thirds of Parents Give Schools an A or B on Meeting Students’ Need

Linda Jacobson
black students

‘Jim Crow Debt’: Most Black Borrowers Regret Student Loans

Marianna McMurdock
book bans

How a YA Oral-Sex Scene Touched Off Texas' Latest Culture War

Brian Lopez & Cassandra Pollock
North Carolina

One School, Many Principals: How This Rural District is Coping with Shortages

Anna Pogarcic
Pandemic

Reviving Student Learning Post-COVID: One School’s Strategy for Reading Recovery

Rebecca Griesbach
COVID Policy Briefing

Surge in School Disruptions and Closures Hits More than 700 Districts

John Bailey
Pandemic

COVID Shutdown: How College Students Cope With Halted Study Abroad Programs

Jewél Jackson
accountability

States Still Waiting on Ed Department Guidance to Restart School Accountability

Linda Jacobson
New York City

Who Are NYPD’s New ‘Youth Coordination Officers’ Headed to Schools?

Eileen Grench
Pandemic

School Staffing Shortages — But Not Everywhere. New Data Shows Where It’s Worse

Asher Lehrer-Small
News

How Does Smoking Marijuana Affect Academic Performance? Two Researchers Explain How it Can Alter More Than Just Moods

Jason R. Kilmer & Christine M. Lee
Antonio Villaraigosa

Ballot Measure Would Give California Parents ‘Legal Standing’ to Sue for Better

Linda Jacobson
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

$9M of Chan Zuckerberg Grants to Bring in More Teachers, School Leaders of Color

Marianna McMurdock
North Carolina

Inside Judge's $1.7 Billion Order to Fund Quality Education for Every NC Student

Alex Granados
Pandemic

Why Is This Teacher Shortage Different (and How Did We Get Here?)

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
censorship

Texas Textbooks At Center of Sex Ed Debate

Andrea Zelinski
California

Meet Barrier-Breaking Homecoming Royalty

Meghan Gallagher
Pandemic

Reversing Students’ COVID Slide: Experts Eyeing Math Skills & Learning Recovery

The 74
News

Indianapolis ‘Innovation Network’ Schools See 42% Jump in Students Amid Pandemic

Beth Hawkins
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