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The state approved 85 requests to reconsider ratings from schools and districts this year.

Principals worry the funding will eventually be pried out of their budgets and said hiring quality teachers could be a challenge.

The New Jersey School Ethics Commission dismissed complaints alleging two Newark school board members violated the Ethics Act after failing to seat Thomas Luna to the board last fall.

The district will educate the community about how the public comment changes will affect participants.

Akira Drake Rodriguez, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses how school closures in Philadelphia affect neighborhoods.

The Aurora school board will vote on the recommendation Dec. 17. The district’s comprehensive high schools have been trying out the materials since August.

Schools can adopt the new requirements, which offer 3 graduation pathways for students, as early as next year.

En el estado con mayor diversidad lingüística del país, sólo un 10 por ciento de los estudiantes asisten a programas bilingües.

Proposition 227 left a shattered teacher training pipeline. In the nation's most linguistically diverse state, just 10% of students are enrolled in dual-language programs.

Book banning action has escalated locally, not at the state level

About 6,000 students in Jeffco lost Medicaid, which had automatically qualified them as at-risk students.

The $16.7 million in state funding for repairs falls far short of meeting all the repairs and upgrades needed in the district.

Black or Latino students represented 51% of the top students in each school’s graduating class last year. But they made up just 36% of students who qualify for direct admission to SUNY.

Starting in March 2025, Philadelphia schools and Penn’s Graduate School of Education are launching a pilot AI training program for teachers and administrators.

Officials say the community has made clear the need for a small school. Craig Prep will have an Afrocentric focus in a district where roughly 45% of the district’s students are Black.

The recommendation to change ASCENT is one of several about college and career offerings from a consulting firm commissioned by state lawmakers to study the issue.

At a Monday Board of Regents meeting, state education officials called for a $2 billion increase in state aid for the 2025-26 school year, as well as updates to Foundation Aid.

Mayor Cherelle Parker said Monday she will be introducing a new intergovernmental committee to advise the school district during its difficult school “rightsizing” process.

A new Complete College America report shows why colleges and universities can help students achieve greater economic success, which in turn can lead to greater engagement in public life.

Colorado is one of several states to offer free school meals to all students.

The introduction of the bills comes in the final days of Democrats’ control of the state legislature.

The introduction of the bills comes in the final days of Democrats’ control of the state legislature.

Denver students from middle- and higher-income families have more than caught up on reading and writing. Students from low-income families have not.

The unions have raised concerns that some CTU proposals would shave away power from their members.

Some 6 vendors will provide resources for students in English, math, and science through the 2027-28 school year.

Students statewide and locally showed gradual increases in math and reading scores in the 2024 spring exams.

A draft plan by Memphis-Shelby County Schools from earlier this year envisioned 21 schools that would close, but the district hasn’t made final decisions.

The funding will cover new tools and materials for K-12 math classrooms through 2028.

Un distrito pedia que el estado no cuente los resultados de la prueba en las evaluaciones de los distritos por al menos un año.

NYC is trying to convince thousands of private school families to waive their legal rights. Here’s what legal advocates say they should consider before signing.

The group wants to prioritize rural districts that often struggle to generate much funding from voter-approved mill levy overrides.

In a letter shared this week, city officials promised teachers would have greater flexibility in how they implement the city’s reading curriculum mandate.

The five teachers were randomly selected from 140 applicants.

Lawmakers pushed the bills forward days after the three-year anniversary of the deadly Oxford school shootings.

In a lawsuit, two families say Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, and their publisher used shoddy studies to prop up their work, which many schools have moved away from in recent years.

When we see whooping cough increase, our response as a community is mainly aimed at protecting babies through vaccination and ensuring those around babies are vaccinated.

The extension came hours before applications were set to close for the city’s eighth graders, who rank 12 or more top choices from an array of over 400 schools.

The legislation would stop schools from forbidding Indigenous students from wearing traditional regalia to graduation ceremonies.