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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
News

Gates Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NewSchools Venture Fund Look to ‘Supercharge’ Math Learning by Bolstering Students’ Executive Function

Laura Fay
New York

NYC’s First LGBTQ Liaison Reflects on Progress — Including New Policy That Lets Students Change Their Names, Genders — as He Departs for Harvard

Taylor Swaak
The B.A. Breakthrough

IDEA Understands That College Is the New High School — For the Texas Charter Network That Means Making It Attainable for Everyone

Richard Whitmire
News

Complicated Crusader to Accused Federal Conspirator: Ex-Puerto Rico Education Secretary Julia Keleher’s ‘Surreal’ Journey

Mark Keierleber
The Big Picture

America Divided: Public Support for Charter Schools Is Growing — but So Is Opposition, New Poll Finds

Mark Keierleber
Los Angeles

Our 5 Key Storylines Out of L.A. as the Nation’s Second-Largest District Heads Back to School

Taylor Swaak
News

In the ‘Crazy, Complicated’ World of Special Education, Parents Turn to One Another for Help — on the Internet

Laura McKenna
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: Helping Cut the Cost of CTE, Few State Accountability Plans Incorporate the Arts, Individual School Spending Data Reveal Big Difference & More

Erika Ross
Inspiring

Florida Teacher’s Wedding Gift Wish List: School Supplies for Her District’s Students

Debra West
San Antonio

The Mandatory-Expulsion Maze: Giving a Friend an Adderall Derailed an Honor Student’s Academic Career. He’s Not the Only One

Bekah McNeel
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: From a Post-Parkland Security Mandate in Broward County to Charter Growth in Houston, School News You Missed This Week From America’s 15 Biggest Districts

The 74
ed tech

Kindi, the Uber of English Reading, Links Syrian Refugee Students to Language Pals — & American Schools Are Getting In on the Act

Tim Newcomb
The Big Picture

Study: Students Who Attend Charter High School More Likely to Vote, Less Likely to Commit Crime

Brendan Lowe
San Antonio

4.5 Million Young People Nationwide Are Not Working or in School. How Cities Are Working to Get Them Back on Track — & Avoid the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Bekah McNeel
4Fams

WATCH: 74 Explains — What Is the New SAT ‘Adversity Score’? And What Does It Mean for Low-Income Students?

The 74
News

Virtual Standstill: When a Georgia Online School Tried to Fire For-Profit Operator K12, Students Were Locked Out of Their Computers

Beth Hawkins
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: Michigan to Have 2 Accountability Systems This School Year, 2 New States Approved to Try Innovative Testing, Presidential Hopefuls Aim to Boost Title I & More

Erika Ross
San Antonio

‘Kids Are Being Arrested, but They Don’t Ask, “Are You OK?”’: San Antonio Students Advocate for Their Own Mental Health, but the Odds Are Against Them

Bekah McNeel
Inspiring

Meet Medi Teddy, a Bear That Hides Those Scary Hospital IV Bags and Tubes, and the 12-Year-Old Connecticut Girl Who Created It

Debra West
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: From a Proposed Takeover in Houston to Miami’s Cure for ‘Middle School Syndrome,’ School News You Missed This Week From America’s 15 Biggest Districts

The 74
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