A parent leader on New York City’s largest school district council has received written orders from the Department of Education to cease “derogatory” and “offensive” conduct or face suspension or removal.  Maud Maron, subject of the April order and a member of Manhattan’s District 2 community education council, has received widespread criticism from lawmakers, city […]

This summer, Washington’s high schoolers will be able to get an even earlier start on college courses. That’s because of a bill led by Sen. Brad Hawkins, R-Wenatchee, which expands the state’s popular Running Start program. Running Start has allowed Washington’s high school juniors and seniors to earn college credit tuition-free since the early 1990s. […]

Assembly lawmakers approved a bill Monday intended to help school districts that have seen cuts to state aid by extending one-time grants and allowing them to hike local taxes above the state-mandated 2% cap without getting voter approval. The bill, approved in a 51-20 vote almost entirely along party lines, would allow districts that have […]

LINCOLN — The University of Nebraska and Google are entering a new partnership designed to further Nebraskans’ education and support state workforce needs. Interim NU President Chris Kabourek announced Tuesday that the university will soon offer Google Career Certificates in a variety of fields. Pre-registration for the programs is open now on a first-come, first-served basis […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that he will sign legislation restricting challenges to books in public schools, blaming “activist” teachers and others of making a “mockery” of his parental rights legislation by filing frivolous challenges. The 2021 Parental Rights in Education Act, sometimes referred to as “Don’t Say Gay,” allows parents the opportunity to review, […]

When now 16-year-old Shanzeh Haji went on a volunteer trip to a girls’ orphanage in Sri Lanka, she learned of a girl at the facility who was orphaned because her mother suffered from postpartum psychosis.  That sparked an interest that led to a passion. Haji began talking to new mothers and family members, including her […]

Remote proctoring tools like Proctorio have faced widespread pushback at colleges. Less scrutiny and awareness exists on their use in K-12 schools. Updated, correction appended April 18 In the middle of night, students at Utah’s Kings Peak High School are wide awake — taking mandatory exams.  At this online-only school, which opened during the pandemic and […]

In the coming days, Minnesota is expected to enact a first-of-its-kind law promoting teacher training on ableism and the history of the disability justice movement. The goal is to encourage the same kind of cultural competence that educators are asked to learn to make their classrooms welcoming to students of color.  Recommended but not mandatory […]

COLUMBIA — Poor South Carolina students who eat meals at school for a much-reduced cost would no longer pay anything under a Senate budget proposal. Students who aren’t considered poor enough to eat for free pay 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch. Nearly 10,000 students statewide qualify for that rate, while 622,000 […]

SAN FRANCISCO — It was two days before the start of the school year, and Lauren Koehler shrugged off her backpack and slid out of a maroon hoodie as she approached the blocky, concrete building that houses the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Enrollment Center. Koehler, the center’s 38-year-old executive director, usually focuses on […]

There are many reasons that young adults in El Paso County do not vote, but a program piloted by El Paso Community College will try to improve the situation through peer communication to include having students serve as paid nonpartisan poll workers at election sites. The college launched its Tejano Pollworker Fellows program this spring […]

The Oakland REACH and the Oakland Unified School District have teamed up to pilot a math tutoring program that has shown early positive results and is modeled after one that has already delivered significant student gains in reading. MathBOOST began last fall with six trained tutors — all of them parents or caregivers — working […]

As generative artificial intelligence has captured our imaginations and civilians are rocketed into space, the allure of the STEM fields has never been stronger. At the same time, from food insecurity to the existential threat of climate change, almost every challenge facing our world today relies on creative solutions from people trained in science, technology, […]

A coalition of education and civil rights groups plan to push for changes to how Alabama funds its schools. A Thursday news release announcing the formation of the coalition said that Alabama is one of the few states to allocate money based on enrollment rather than needs from students. Education budget chairs Sen. Arthur Orr, […]

OKLAHOMA CITY — Legislation permitting chaplains to work in public schools reemerged and advanced in the Oklahoma Legislature this week. Rep. Kevin West, R-Moore, deleted the original language of Senate Bill 36, a discarded bill from 2023 relating to the Open Records Act, and replaced it with a measure to allow religious chaplains to be […]

In the 2022-23 school year, student expulsions in Connecticut increased by over 31% compared to the 2018-19 pre-pandemic year. Out-of-school suspensions increased by 14.4% statewide in that same time frame.  And on average, one in every 14 children received a suspension or expulsion — with that number being disproportionately higher for Black students (1 in […]

The mother of Alyssa Alhadeff, a student who was killed in her English class during the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, stood before a room full of lawmakers and state officials on Wednesday.  Lori Alhadeff held a portrait of her daughter in her arms as she applauded Utah for becoming […]

A decade ago, Washington, D.C., was hailed as a national model for education reform. The charter school sector, which now serves almost half of all public school students in the city, was expanding rapidly. D.C. Public Schools was a leader in adopting a teacher evaluation policy that linked compensation to student test scores and boasted […]

Three third graders stepped up to the podium at a recent Cobb County Board of Education meeting. It was intimidating — they needed a step stool to reach the mic, and were facing a two-minute timer that seemed to move faster than a normal clock. But Berkley Carter, Daphne Murray and June Simmons were on […]

FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK — The sixth-graders learning about ancient Greek vases in their classroom at John Street School looked like students in nearly any other social studies class in the country. Wearing sweatpants and hoodies, they heard a short lesson about what the vases were used for and how they were decorated before breaking […]