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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
Best of 2020

Best Education Articles of 2020: Our 20 Most Popular Stories About Students, Remote Schooling & COVID Learning Loss This Year

Steve Snyder
Pandemic

Nashville’s ‘Navigator’ Tries to Keep Students in Remote Learning From Getting Lost in the System

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Pandemic Brings Long-Sought Admissions Changes to NYC’s Highly Segregated Schools

Zoë Kirsch
Pandemic

In Final Hours of Senate Negotiations, Congress Poised to Approve $82 Billion in New Assistance for Schools, Including Funds to Help Reopen Classrooms

Linda Jacobson
EDlection 2020

Anti-LGBT Activist Loses Orleans Parish School Board Race to a Gay Educator; 4 Other NOLA Runoff Elections Settled

Beth Hawkins
Pandemic

Phantom Students, Very Real Red Ink: Why Efforts to Keep Student Disenrollment from Busting School Budgets Can Backfire

Beth Hawkins
Pandemic

A ‘Plan B’: D.C. Sees Strong Interest in Adult Ed Programs During Pandemic as Many Seek Jobs or Help With Kids’ Virtual Learning

Taylor Swaak
Pandemic

The Concerning Case of Cleveland’s No-Show Students: More Than 8,000 Kids Are Missing From City’s Online Classes as Absenteeism Rates Double

Patrick O’Donnell
Best of the Month

The 9 Best Education Articles from December: Student Surveillance Amid the Pandemic, Cities Demanding Refunds From Schools For Missing Kids, Inside Learning Pods & More

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Pandemic

A Glimmer of Hope in Pandemic for Nation’s Ailing Catholic Schools, But Long-Term Worries Persist

Asher Lehrer-Small
Pre-K

Las Vegas Takes Its Show on the Road to Provide Quality Pre-K to Child Care Deserts

K.C. Compton
COVID's Missing Students

New Homes, New Schools, Endless Delays. For Students in Foster Care, Pandemic Only Adds to the Chaos

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Research Shows Changing Schools Can Make or Break a Student, But the Wave of Post-COVID Mobility May Challenge the Systems in Ways We’ve Never Seen

Kevin Mahnken
Best of 2020

16 Charts that Changed the Way We Thought About America’s Schools This Year

Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

From Blue Light Glasses & Noise-Canceling Earphones to Tablets & Masks for Kids, a New World of Student Technology in the Age of COVID

Tim Newcomb
News

Racial-Justice War On Merit-Based Schools: It’s an Injustice Against Excellence, Critics Say

Vince Bielski
Pandemic

How Missing Zoom Classes Could Funnel Kids into the Juvenile Justice System — And Why Some Experts Say Now is the Time to Reform Truancy Rules

Mark Keierleber
Pandemic

Watch: How a Brooklyn School Reopens — With No COVID Cases — in the Pandemic

Jim Fields
Pandemic

‘No One Taught Us How to Do This’: As Families Face Evictions & Closed Classrooms, Data Shows ‘Dramatic’ Spike in Mid-Year School Moves

Linda Jacobson
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: California Commission Aims to Use Schools as ‘Wellness Centers’, District of Columbia Claims Big Jump in Graduation Rate During Pandemic & More

Joshua Parrish
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