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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.

Author: Linda Jacobson

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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.

Author: Martin Slagter

Auditor: School choice cost Iowans $258 million

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

Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch

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

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Parents Select Schools Based on Way More Than Test Scores, Study Finds

As Free College Tuition Becomes a Popular Rallying Cry, ‘Tennessee Promise’ Hailed as Game Changer — but Equity Concerns Remain

Carolyn Phenicie

KIPP Weighs In on Higher Education Act Rewrite, Calls on Congress to Make College More Accessible to Low-Income Kids

This Student Made the Journey from Venezuela to Orlando on Her Own. Now, With Support From Her School and Community, She’s Following Her Dream to Perform on Broadway

Mark Keierleber

Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: New Mexico Sheds A-F School Ratings, Democrats Push $4.4B Increase in Ed Department Funding, States Worry About School Improvement

Ashley Inman Zanchelli

As Both College Student and Entrepreneur, Jessica Sun Is Instilling Confidence in the Thousands of Kids at Her Debate Camp — and in Herself

In These Rural Schools, the Computer Science Teachers Are Volunteers Who Work for Microsoft, Amazon and Google. That’s Opening Doors for Their Students

And Her Little Dog, Too! NJ Student Who Uses Wheelchair Stars as Dorothy in ‘Wizard of Oz’ School Play — & Her Service Dog Is Toto

Tiffany Lagerstrom

New ‘Holistic’ Center on School Safety at Johns Hopkins Aims to Arm a Nation Anxious Over Shootings With Evidence, Best Practices

Mark Keierleber

EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: From Helping Hawaii’s Teachers Find Housing to Philadelphia’s Blighted Former School Buildings, Headlines You Missed Last Week From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts

3 California NAACP Chapters Break With State and National Leaders, Calling for Charter Moratorium to Be Overturned

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

86% of Charter School Graduates in Los Angeles Are Eligible for State Universities — Two Dozen Points Higher Than Grads at Traditional LAUSD Schools

The B.A. Breakthrough

With High School Counselors Badly Outnumbered, Innovative Nonprofit Steps In to Offer Smart College Advising to Low-Income Students Across the Country

Richard Whitmire

CareerVillage Offers Underserved High Schoolers a Crowdsourced Portal for Career Advice — and Now, Google Wants to Help It Grow

Obama’s Now-Revoked 2014 Discipline Guidance: Necessary Federal Oversight or Inappropriate, Top-Down Intervention?

Carolyn Phenicie

The 2020 Ed Funding Fight Has Begun: 5 Things You Need to Know About House Democrats’ Appropriations Bill and Its Big Spending Boosts for Education

Carolyn Phenicie

District of Columbia

100 Days Into His Tenure at Scandal-Weary DC Schools, New Chancellor Lewis Ferebee Promises to ‘Move at the Speed of Trust’

Carolyn Phenicie

Lawrence Aber: Effects of Poverty, Violence on Child Development

Early Learning Nation Editors

Windy City Bluster? Chicago Public Schools Withholds Funds, Squeezing Charter Schools to Accept Less Aid

Texas’s ‘Whole Student Agenda’: How a Former Teacher Is Using His Legislative Seat to Push 24 New Bills Supporting Sex Ed, Mental Health, Restorative Justice & More

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