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Our public education system rests on a foundation of civil rights protections. Public schools exist to serve every child. They are legally required to accept all students and provide the services they need, regardless of their race or…

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While education choice advocates have fought, and reconciled, over the concept and implementation of what is now the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit for almost a decade, the policy — which enshrines in the federal tax code a $1,700 tax…

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This article was originally published in CommonWealth Beacon. When Rickencia Clerveaux McClean’s son was around 18 months old, she noticed he wasn’t speaking the way she expected. He pointed instead of asking. He struggled with food…

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This article was originally published in EdSource. Enrollment in California K-12 schools, and in schools across the country, is declining rapidly as birth rates drop and immigration rates fall. This school year, California had the largest…

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Educators at the Making Waves Academy knew they wanted to teach high school students to be good communicators, problem solvers and critical thinkers to succeed in a rapidly changing world. English and math still matter, said Patrick…

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Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon , are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points accumulated from assignments and tests…

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This article was originally published in EdSource. After taking a break from social media, Orange County student Elise Choi helped write a bill that would mandate California schools teach digital wellness — a response to growing concerns…

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Early childhood classrooms are typically led by a pair of teachers. To a child in their care, their roles may be indistinguishable. Both teachers play with them, read to them, sing to them and guide them throughout the day. But each pair…

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When it comes to tech and kids, America has made serious mistakes. For years, children have been allowed unsupervised access to social media apps in school and at home that were not designed with their safety in mind. This has contributed…

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In 1977, Karen Hawley Miles’ family left Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Washington, D.C. She was a junior in high school, a particularly rough time to be uprooted from her friends and neighborhood. Still, she appreciated the reason the…

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This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. A few years back, a groundswell of Brooklyn parents in District 13 wanted to ditch gifted and talented classes, concerned about sorting and segregating children starting in kindergarten.…

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In education, sometimes the most important things are the least glamorous. Student assessment and school accountability rarely make headlines the way new spending proposals or sweeping initiatives do. No fireworks. No standing ovations.…

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This article was originally published in EdNC. In 2024, Mama Freda’s Tiny Tots Child Care opened as Grow Early Learning’s first in-home child care program in North Carolina. The licensed family child care home (FCCH) in Kings Mountain is…

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Teachers union employees from at least 22 states are rallying behind the Indiana Professional Staff Organization, which recently filed unfair labor practice charges against the Indiana State Teachers Association over claims that members…

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This article was originally published in CalMatters. This story was originally published by CalMatters . Sign up for their newsletters. A nonprofit organization created by the California State Library to improve childhood literacy has…

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This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. The Education Department plans to dissolve the office that supports the country’s 5 million English learners. The move comes as the Trump administration has called to dismantle the U.S.…

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“I love my job,” is one of the first things Ashley Ross says, as she sits down to talk about a looming pay cut that she might be facing. She’s worked at Gan HaYeled, an early childhood program in Northwest D.C., for almost 20 years, and…

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LINCOLN — As the Nebraska Legislature considers whether to mandate increased support for struggling young readers, a Lincoln mother urges officials to act as she continues a years-long push for literacy and dyslexia awareness. Heather…

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Administrators at Maryland’s Calvert County Public Schools believed the math classes they added to their course catalog years ago — pre-algebra and business math among them — helped students by giving them more time to master basic…

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In November 2025, Pope Leo XIV signed new regulations for the Roman Curia stating that institutions “shall ordinarily draw up their acts in Latin or in another language ” — a quiet but symbolically significant retreat from Latin’s…

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This article was originally published in KFF Health News. As immigration authorities carry out what President Donald Trump has promised will be the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, several states are passing laws to keep…

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Across Pennsylvania, districts are struggling to recruit, prepare and retain Black teachers, who make up just 3.7% of the commonwealth’s educator workforce . This gap reflects an educator pipeline that has not kept pace with a student…

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Children and staff at Second Street Youth Center in Plainfield, New Jersey, are well-acquainted with lockdown drills in the event of a fire or an active shooter. More recently, though, the preschool decided to establish protocols for…

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With more parents pushing for limits on screen time in the classroom, Vermont state Rep. Rob Hunter, a Democrat, wants to make it easier for them to opt their children out of using laptops and iPads. He co-sponsored legislation this year…

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In November 2025, Pope Leo XIV signed new regulations for the Roman Curia stating that institutions “shall ordinarily draw up their acts in Latin or in another language ” — a quiet but symbolically significant retreat from Latin’s…

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This article was originally published in KFF Health News. As immigration authorities carry out what President Donald Trump has promised will be the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, several states are passing laws to keep…

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Across Pennsylvania, districts are struggling to recruit, prepare and retain Black teachers, who make up just 3.7% of the commonwealth’s educator workforce . This gap reflects an educator pipeline that has not kept pace with a student…

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Children and staff at Second Street Youth Center in Plainfield, New Jersey, are well-acquainted with lockdown drills in the event of a fire or an active shooter. More recently, though, the preschool decided to establish protocols for…

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With more parents pushing for limits on screen time in the classroom, Vermont state Rep. Rob Hunter, a Democrat, wants to make it easier for them to opt their children out of using laptops and iPads. He co-sponsored legislation this year…

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This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune. The Texas State Board of Education gave preliminary approval Friday to a mandatory list of books that all public schools will teach starting in 2030, paring down an earlier…

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Late last month, Education Secretary Linda McMahon celebrated what she called the Trump administration’s “unprecedented progress in reducing the federal education footprint” and “giving education back to the states” as she announced that…

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A tidal wave of litigation aimed at social media platforms is drawing comparisons to the tobacco and opioid cases of recent decades, with observers predicting the companies that operate sites like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok could soon…

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Lawmakers in the New York Senate and Assembly are considering a bill that would empower New York City high school students. It doesn’t have a catchy name, nor has it attracted much debate and attention surrounding it. It doesn’t call for a…

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Congratulations! High school graduation rates in your state are hitting all-time highs! But before you crack open the champagne, you should know that only a small fraction of those students can do high school-level math. Those graduates…

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This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune. The Texas State Board of Education gave preliminary approval Friday to a mandatory list of books that all public schools will teach starting in 2030, paring down an earlier…

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Late last month, Education Secretary Linda McMahon celebrated what she called the Trump administration’s “unprecedented progress in reducing the federal education footprint” and “giving education back to the states” as she announced that…

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A tidal wave of litigation aimed at social media platforms is drawing comparisons to the tobacco and opioid cases of recent decades, with observers predicting the companies that operate sites like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok could soon…

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Lawmakers in the New York Senate and Assembly are considering a bill that would empower New York City high school students. It doesn’t have a catchy name, nor has it attracted much debate and attention surrounding it. It doesn’t call for a…

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Congratulations! High school graduation rates in your state are hitting all-time highs! But before you crack open the champagne, you should know that only a small fraction of those students can do high school-level math. Those graduates…

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Class is in session for roughly 400,000 Los Angeles Unified students after a historic three-union strike involving 70,000 teachers, administrators and school support staff was averted early Tuesday morning. The Los Angeles Unified School…

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In February, the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) announced it would shutter its on-campus child care center, which has operated for nearly 40 years, at the end of the spring semester.The decision caused a weeks-long uproar on campus,…

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Three well-known but very different names in nonprofit education say they’re coming together Tuesday to launch an improbable enterprise: a new, AI-focused college, designed for a world in which artificial intelligence is reshaping what…

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There are more than 12 million elementary and middle school students from low-income families who are below grade level in reading or math, our analysis shows. Yet school districts across the country are cutting their tutoring programs —…

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At John Barry Elementary School, the veteran third-grade teaching team laughed and cried when they talked about their long journey together. It started 12 years ago when Emily Angiletta, Stephanie Timek and Emily Silluzio were first time…

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Class is in session for roughly 400,000 Los Angeles Unified students after a historic three-union strike involving 70,000 teachers, administrators and school support staff was averted early Tuesday morning. The Los Angeles Unified School…

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In February, the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) announced it would shutter its on-campus child care center, which has operated for nearly 40 years, at the end of the spring semester.The decision caused a weeks-long uproar on campus,…

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Three well-known but very different names in nonprofit education say they’re coming together Tuesday to launch an improbable enterprise: a new, AI-focused college, designed for a world in which artificial intelligence is reshaping what…

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There are more than 12 million elementary and middle school students from low-income families who are below grade level in reading or math, our analysis shows. Yet school districts across the country are cutting their tutoring programs —…

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At John Barry Elementary School, the veteran third-grade teaching team laughed and cried when they talked about their long journey together. It started 12 years ago when Emily Angiletta, Stephanie Timek and Emily Silluzio were first time…

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“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” In a time when by most measures boys and men are in crisis, these words are as relevant today as they were over 170 years when uttered by abolitionist Frederick Douglass.…

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This article was originally published in EdSource. Sergio Garcia is quick to the scene. He puts on a scuffed firefighter jacket, grabs an oxygen mask and crouches down on hot concrete to start chest compressions on a dummy body. At the Los…

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Not so long ago, Americans were fond of talking about our politics as a modest set of disagreements: “We agree on the ends,” we’d say, “we just argue about the means.” Since the early 2010s, it’s gotten harder to believe. We’ve suffered…

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This article was originally published in South Carolina Daily Gazette. Teachers from certain other states could start working in South Carolina classrooms more quickly under a bill a House committee advanced Thursday. The bill, which…

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Hazel Health, which once described itself as “the largest K-12 mental and physical health provider in the nation,” faces an uncertain future after enduring two rounds of layoffs since last fall and the loss of several lucrative contracts…

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“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” In a time when by most measures boys and men are in crisis, these words are as relevant today as they were over 170 years when uttered by abolitionist Frederick Douglass.…

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This article was originally published in EdSource. Sergio Garcia is quick to the scene. He puts on a scuffed firefighter jacket, grabs an oxygen mask and crouches down on hot concrete to start chest compressions on a dummy body. At the Los…

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Not so long ago, Americans were fond of talking about our politics as a modest set of disagreements: “We agree on the ends,” we’d say, “we just argue about the means.” Since the early 2010s, it’s gotten harder to believe. We’ve suffered…

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This article was originally published in South Carolina Daily Gazette. Teachers from certain other states could start working in South Carolina classrooms more quickly under a bill a House committee advanced Thursday. The bill, which…

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Hazel Health, which once described itself as “the largest K-12 mental and physical health provider in the nation,” faces an uncertain future after enduring two rounds of layoffs since last fall and the loss of several lucrative contracts…

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This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune. State officials, activists and educators have largely shaped public dialogue about Texas’ social studies overhaul, but young people added their voices to the conversation Tuesday,…

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This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune. State officials, activists and educators have largely shaped public dialogue about Texas’ social studies overhaul, but young people added their voices to the conversation Tuesday,…

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By the time children reach elementary school, teachers can usually predict which students will volunteer answers, speak easily in front of the class and move comfortably through discussion — and which will hesitate, look down or remain…

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This article was originally published in Missouri Independent. Every child who starts at Lemay Child and Family Center in St. Louis County receives a developmental screening during their first month of attendance. Based on these…

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School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news . Subscribe here. Two recent stories by reporters here at The 74 demonstrate the ongoing ripple effects of the Trump administration’s massive deportation…

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This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. Why the Classic Learning Test, which embraces Aristotle but spurns calculators, has caught Indiana’s eye A test that relies on classic Western texts and bans calculators for math will…