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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
COVID Slide

Education Through the Pandemic: From a Four-Fold Increase in F Grades in Connecticut to Expanding Mental Health Services For Colorado’s Students, 8 Ways States Are Confronting COVID-19

Joshua Parrish
Pandemic

Personalization, Play, Passion Projects: How One Innovative Atlanta School Is Offering Alternative Learning Like Urban Farming and Robotics During the Pandemic

Tianna Faulkner
Pandemic

Texas to Provide State-Licensed Summer Camps With Rapid COVID-19 Tests One Year After Pandemic Forced Mass Closures

Reese Oxner
The Big Picture

Teachers Unions Lift Salaries and School Spending, Research Shows, But Evidence on Student Achievement Is Mixed

Kevin Mahnken
Best of the Month

The 10 Best Education Articles from March: 12 Million Students Lack Reliable Internet a Year Into Pandemic, What Herd Immunity Does (and Doesn’t) Mean for Classrooms & More

The 74
Pandemic

First Phase of Biden Infrastructure Plan to Include Billions for Schools, Child Care Centers and Broadband

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Trying to Improve Remote Learning? A Refugee Camp Offers Some Surprising Lessons

Javeria Salman
education

Watch Live — 1 pm Today: Experts Talk About Teacher Diversity Post-COVID

The 74
Pandemic

Report: Learning Loss Data Shows 40,000 Los Angeles High School Students Off Track to Graduate

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

After A Year Without Mass School Shootings, Experts Sound the Alarm About a ‘Return to Normal’

Mark Keierleber
Pandemic

Court Documents Reveal How L.A. Teachers Union Gained Upper Hand in Pandemic Negotiations, Limiting Instruction Time

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

The Week In School Reopenings: 6 Key Updates On Students’ Return To Classrooms

Asher Lehrer-Small
Pandemic

Video Recap: Watch Four Black Mothers Discuss Parent Activism, Self-Determination and the Fight for Educational Change Post-Pandemic

Mimi Woldeyohannes
Pandemic

New York’s City 3-K Expansion A Relief for Many Families Struggling During the Pandemic

Zoë Kirsch
Pandemic

Many Rural Remote Learners Are Receiving Little to No Live Teaching, Federal Survey Reveals

Asher Lehrer-Small
Pandemic

With Texas Classrooms Reopening and No State Mask Mandate, School Nurses Have Become Crucial in Battling Pandemic — But Districts Aren’t Required to Have Them

Aliyya Swaby
education

WATCH: Will Pods Outlast the Pandemic? School Experts and Founders Talk About the Education Innovations That Could Endure Beyond COVID

The 74
COVID Policy Briefing

The Week in COVID & Education Policy: 18 Key Updates on Schools, Students and the Fine Print on Who Is (and Isn’t) Learning in Person Right Now

John Bailey
Pandemic

D.C. Summer Jobs Program Will Pay Teens to Take Classes as City Combats Learning Loss

Taylor Swaak
Pandemic

Reticent Families in NYC, LA Could Prove True Test For School Reopenings, Even As Gallup Poll Reveals Overwhelming Parent Support Nationwide

Asher Lehrer-Small
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