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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
Hawaii

Hawaiʻi Is Failing Special Education Students. Federal Cuts Could Make It Worse

Megan Tagami
Pandemic

Five Years Later: How COVID Triggered a School Choice Renaissance

Kevin Mahnken
The 74 Interview

NAEP ‘Absolutely’ Needs to Stay, Linda McMahon Says. The Department? Not So Much

Greg Toppo
STEM

From Water Quality to Cancer, Meet 6 STEM Students Solving Real-World Problems

Lauren Wagner
Texas

Second Texas Child Dies from Measles; RFK Jr. Visits

Pooja Salhotra & Jayme Lozano
California

Fight Over Phonics: Will California Require the ‘Science of Reading’ in Schools?

Carolyn Jones
unions

Pennsylvania Teachers Union Members Sue After Cyberattack Exposes Personal Data

Lauren Wagner
Innovative high schools

At Project-Based Tech Valley High School, Small Is Big

Greg Toppo
Wisconsin

Head Start Providers Shocked as Federal Office Serving Wisconsin Shuts Without Notice

Erik Gunn
Colorado

New Report: Colorado School Attendance Zones Keep Racial, Socioeconomic Segregation Going

Melanie Asmar
HBCU

Black Colleges Ponder Their Future As Trump Makes Cuts to Education Dollars

Robbie Sequeira
School (In)Security

School (in)Security Newsletter: Punishing Parents for Chronic Absenteeism

Mark Keierleber
Trump Administration

Trump’s ‘School Choice’ Push Adds to Momentum in Statehouses

Robbie Sequeira
school finance

New Report: Despite Red Ink & Academic Losses, School Boards Rarely Talk Budgets

Beth Hawkins
school (in)security

Student Absences Have Surged Since COVID. Some Say Parents Should be Jailed

Mark Keierleber
Maine

Title IX Case Against Maine Schools Headed to U.S. Department of Justice

Eesha Pendharkar
Trump Administration

Trump Education Department Threatens Federal School Funding Nationwide Over DEI

Erica Meltzer
unions

$1.5 Billion Chicago Teachers Union Contract Headed to Member Vote

Lauren Wagner
special education

As Trump Shakes Up Oversight of Special Ed, Frustrated DC Parents Want Change

Linda Jacobson
Indiana

Indiana Poised to Make School Board Elections Partisan After Key Vote

Aleksandra Appleton
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