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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

Test Article

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
The Big Picture

What’s the Racial Breakdown of America’s Public School System?

Laura Fay
Building Integrated Classrooms

The State of America’s Student-Teacher Racial Gap: Our Public School System Has Been Majority-Minority for Years, but 80 Percent of Teachers Are Still White

Laura Fay
Inspiring

Incredible! This Arkansas Teen Just Aced All 8 of His Advanced Placement Tests. Now, He’s Off to the London School of Economics

Meredith Nelson
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: 3 out of 4 IL Kids Aren’t Ready for Kindergarten, State Data Show; TX Must Come Up With $3.2 Billion for Special Ed — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts

Andrew Brownstein
News

Arne Duncan: ‘I’m Not Convinced This President Wants to Have the Best-Educated Citizenry in the World’

Taylor Swaak
Los Angeles

Closing the ‘Perception Gap’: With 3 in 5 Teachers Saying Students Are Not at Grade Level on First Day of School, New Digital Tool Offers Parents a ‘Readiness Check’

Esmeralda Fabián Romero
The 74 Interview

74 Interview: NewSchools Venture Fund’s Stacey Childress on 20 Years’ (and $300 Million) Worth of School Breakthroughs & What She’s Learned About Supporting Education Innovation

Kate Stringer
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: Hurricane Harvey Trauma Lingers in TX Schools; Carvalho Texts Offer No Clue He’d Back Out of NYC Schools Chief Job — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts

Andrew Brownstein
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week in ESSA: New Ways of Thinking About Turning Around Struggling Schools, Smarter Balanced Gets the Thumbs-Up in Nevada & More

Ashley Inman Zanchelli
News

Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court Throws Out School Choice Lawsuit, Paving Way for Charter Schools to Open in the Coming Weeks

Mark Keierleber
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: Support Builds for CA Data System to Track Student Progress; TX State Ed Chief Urges More Pay for Higher-Performing Teachers — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts

Andrew Brownstein
investigation

Inside the $3 Billion School Security Industry: Companies Market Sophisticated Technology to ‘Harden’ Campuses, but Will It Make Us Safe?

Mark Keierleber
The Big Picture

New Finding: Most States Don’t Test New Teachers on ‘Science of Reading’

Kevin Mahnken
News

6.7% of Students Skip School out of Fear. Worry Over School Shootings Is Up. Yet School Violence Is Down. What Does This Mean?

Kate Stringer
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: Metal Detectors Ineffective at LAUSD Schools, Report Says; WY Educators Debate Merits of Arming Teachers — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts

Andrew Brownstein
News

Even as California’s Student Suspensions Fell 46% Over the Past 6 Years, the ‘Discipline Gap’ for Black Children Remained as Wide as Ever

Mario Koran
News

‘I Feel Happy to Enter Classes Again’: One Migrant Teen’s Perilous Journey From El Salvador to High School in the U.S.

Brendan Lowe
Inspiring

12-Year-Old Scuba Diver & Activist Purges Plastic Straws From Her California School District — and She’s Just Getting Her Feet Wet

Meredith Nelson
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: LAUSD Teachers Contemplate Strike; Critics Blast NYC Schools for Hiding Study Critical of Desegregation Plan — and More Must-Reads From America’s 15 Biggest School Districts

Andrew Brownstein
#EDlection2018

Democrats for Education Reform Release New Poll Suggesting Most Voters Are ‘Education Progressives.’ Here Are 7 Takeaways

Taylor Swaak
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