The legislation includes big Medicaid cuts, a new voucher-like school choice program, stricter limits on food aid that has implications for free school meals, and more money for immigration enforcement.
The Detroit school board is now seeking applicants interested in serving out the remainder of Angelique Peterson-Mayberry’s term.
Education leaders learned of the freeze Monday, hours before the money was due to be available.
The legislation includes big Medicaid cuts, a new voucher-like school choice program, stricter limits on food aid that has implications for free school meals, and more money for immigration enforcement.
The state feels another pinch from the administration’s crackdown on DEI initiatives.
Major Pennsylvania cyber charter school says performing weekly wellness checks would be ‘impossible’
The wellness check requirement, passed into state law last year, was inspired in part by the death of a 12-year-old Commonwealth Charter Academy student.
Nearly a third of city students start kindergarten at age 4. Not all of them are ready.
Converting to a charter school would have provided the K-8 school an additional $400,000 per year, according to one official, that would have funded a new foreign language teacher and a school resource officer.
Colorado hasn’t received about $70 million in federal education funds after the Trump administration refused to release billions in K-12 dollars.
Michigan’s State Superintendent Michael Rice said the withholding of the federal funding would hurt some of the state’s most vulnerable children.
Board members debated Columbus, colonizers, and Black Lives Matter during several meetings about choosing a curriculum.
Educators have recently made sex ed more gender-inclusive. The Trump administration has other ideas.
Federal officials say California must delete mentions of gender identity and trans people from federally funded sex ed materials that reach about 13,000 students, or else lose $6 million.
Congress approved the support for English learners and afterschool programs. But the dollars expected on July 1 are now on hold, creating ‘unnecessary uncertainty,’ Sanders says.
Uptown Lacrosse joins the growing list of organizations helping kids in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx access the sport.
Last school year, most of the district’s standalone middle schools enrolled less than half the number of students they were built for.
The district is changing how it assigns staff serving students with disabilities as labor unions voice concerns.
The Trump administration is withholding nearly $7 billion for education that has been approved by Congress and was supposed to go out starting July 1.
Tennessee isn’t asking where the participants were enrolled before, so it won’t know how many vouchers are going to existing private school students.
The Community College of Aurora is part of a growing trend of colleges and universities giving students microgrants to help with life emergencies.
Mamdani’s plan would represent a fundamental shift in school governance at a time when the system faces many pressing issues, from declining enrollment to chronic absenteeism.
Democratic AGs are challenging the Trump administration’s cuts to $1 billion in federal funding for school mental health services created in response to school shootings.
The district was one of the state’s big losers when the U.S. froze federal aid in March. But the federal reversal frees up over $55 million for vital building upgrades.
Reductions target crossing guards and central-office employees. Trimming a $734 million deficit would require bigger moves.
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Reductions target crossing guards and central-office employees. Trimming a $734 million deficit would require bigger moves.
Columbia Secondary is reeling from an exodus of teachers and student-led protests. The turmoil comes as a new principal has shifted the school’s culture and curriculum.
Indianapolis educators, parents, and students will share their stories of back-to-school at this story slam co-hosted by Chalkbeat Indiana on Aug. 21.
The $10 million child care pilot program is expected to create hundreds of new seats in high-need communities. The spending blueprint would also boost funding for preschoolers with disabilities.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of religious parents seeking the right to opt their children out of LGBTQ+ material. The decision will change how teachers approach inclusivity in their classrooms.
Tras las redadas migratorias de alto perfil, el Distrito Unificado de Los Ángeles aumentó las sedes para las escuelas de verano y ofreció transporte adicional para responder al temor de las familias de ser detenidas durante el trayecto.
District sees an opportunity for educators to write quiz questions, develop schedules, and write newsletters more efficiently.
While it’s not quite the ‘year-round school’ Mayor Cherelle Parker campaigned on, the initiative will offer before- and after-school programs and camp activities at 15 new schools.
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Families in Montgomery County, Maryland, are allowed to opt their children out of reading books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes if the content conflicts with their religious beliefs, the Supreme Court decided. A federal appeals court will continue to consider the parents’ case.
Melissa Reed will fill a seat left empty after a long-serving member abruptly resigned last month.
Philly school board signals it will not renew People for People and KIPP North Philadelphia charters
Board members said that low test scores at KIPP North Philadelphia Academy and People for People Charter School led them to start a process that could close the schools.
John Marshall school building has sat empty since its closure in 2018. But the east-side property may soon get a new life.
The $734 million funding gap assumes the district will reimburse the city for a pension payment that covers school district and city workers.
The district ‘knowingly and regularly’ failed to make necessary asbestos repairs and endangered students, according to federal officials.
There are two bills that would address cellphone use in Michigan schools. It’s uncertain which proposal will pass.
DPSCD is already phasing out some small schools. But various solutions are being weighed for others.
The state spent around $497 million on the Choice Scholarship program in 2024-25, an increase of just over $58 million from the previous year.
Officials hope the new role will help create a pipeline of new school safety agents, a workforce that has declined 28% over the past five years. Critics say teens should not be involved in school safety.
The Trump administration wants to end funding for the federal TRIO program, which helps students from low-income backgrounds, students with disabilities, and first-generation students get to and through college.