Overall school attendance is improving, but children with disabilities and those from low-income families aren’t rebounding as well as their peers, the state reports.
Denver has moved away from closing low-performing schools and opening new ones. Now, like many districts, it faces a new set of school closure decisions.
Applicants whose grants requests weren’t funded in August may get awards now.
The district is seeing increases in most student groups, including big bumps in the number of children learning English as a new language.
Denver no tiene suficientes estudiantes para llenar sus edificios, dijeron los representantes del distrito escolar.
New York City families can apply to more than 12 high schools this year, as well as any middle school across the city, the city’s Education Department announced.
Overall school attendance is improving, but children with disabilities and those from low-income families aren’t rebounding as well as their peers, the state reports.
One year after a state law was enacted, there’s little indication of how it’s working to keep schools safe.
Young people don’t stop needing help, or being deserving of patience, forgiveness, and an education the moment that they turn 18.
Neither the board nor Pedro Martinez directly addressed Mayor Brandon Johnson’s request for the schools chief to quit.
“My North Star is their North Star,” newly appointed chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos told Chalkbeat of her predecessor, David Banks, and Mayor Eric Adams.
Legislators heard how counselors and attendance liaisons can help reduce absences. Earlier this year, Indiana adopted a law focused on improving student attendance.
Eight candidates are vying for 4 seats on the Indianapolis Public Schools board. Learn more about them and their views on the district including its most pressing issue.
Eric Adams’ indictment is both symbolically and practically significant for the nation’s largest school system, which is under mayoral control.
The Chicago neighborhoods that either Raquel Don, Yesenia Lopez, or Eva A. Villalobos will represent include Pilsen, Little Village, Bridgeport, and Brighton Park.
Born and raised in the Bronx, Aviles-Ramos has been a teacher, principal, acting superintendent, chief of staff for David Banks, and a deputy chancellor for family engagement.
The budget would add another $125 million in grants for school districts this year.
The Chicago neighborhoods that Therese Boyle, Miquel Lewis, Lanetta Thomas, and La’Mont Raymond Williams will represent include Washington Heights, Beverly, and Auburn-Gresham.
The move comes after M-STEP results showed third grade reading proficiency was at an all-time low at the end of last school year.
Some parents questioned the district’s timeline and community engagement efforts.
Chicagoans will elect school board members for the first time on Nov. 5. Here’s a guide to who is running in each district.
Chicago School Board District 5 stretches from the West Loop to Austin. There is one candidate on the ballot — Aaron ‘Jitu’ Brown — and two people running as write-ins: Jousef Shkoukani and Kernetha Jones.
The Chicago neighborhoods that Kate Doyle, Ebony DeBerry, Maggie Cullerton Hooper, or Bruce Leon will represent include parts of West Ridge, Edgewater, Rogers Park, Andersonville, Lincoln Square, Albany Park, North Park, and Uptown.
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The Chicago neighborhoods that Kate Doyle, Ebony DeBerry, Maggie Cullerton Hooper, or Bruce Leon will represent include parts of West Ridge, Edgewater, Rogers Park, Andersonville, Lincoln Square, Albany Park, North Park, and Uptown.
Kimberly Brown, Andrew A. Davis, Thomas Day, Carmen Gioiosa, Ellen Rosenfeld, and Karen Zaccor come from different backgrounds, ranging from teaching and community organizing to marketing and the military.
The Chicago neighborhoods that either Jennifer Custer or Michelle N. Pierre will represent include Jefferson Park, Edison Park, Portage Park, and Norwood Park.
The Chicago neighborhoods that either Angel Gutierrez or Felix Ponce will represent stretch from the South Loop to McKinley Park, and Back of the Yards.
The Chicago neighborhoods that Jason Dónes or Carlos Rivas Jr. will represent include parts of Humboldt Park, Hermosa, Belmont Cragin, Logan Square, Avondale, Old Irving Park, and Mayfair.
The Chicago neighborhoods where Robert Jones, Karin Norington-Reaves, Adam Parrott-Sheffer, and Che 'Rhymefest' Smith are vying for a school board seat stretch from Hyde Park to the Illinois-Indiana border.
District 6 has three candidates on the ballot and one write-in candidate running for a seat in Chicago’s first school board race. Here’s what you should know.
Aviles-Ramos, a deputy chancellor, was previously the department’s chief of staff. Banks announced plans to retire just three weeks after federal officials seized his phones.
The move comes after the teachers union claimed that CPS CEO Pedro Martinez is planning for school closures — and after the mayor asked Martinez to resign.
Federal agents visited David Banks’ home the day before school started and seized his phones as part of a broader investigation into members of Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle.
The local schools were among 356 schools across the country to win the honor, according to the U.S. Department of Education. All earned recognition for high academic performance.
More than 400 teenagers have participated in the Headway Election Challenge in partnership with Chalkbeat.
Chalkbeat, WBEZ, and the Chicago Sun-Times partnered to get to know the candidates running for school board and ask them a series of policy questions. Use this guide to search who is running and find out where they stand on the issues.
Haitian immigrants are facing harassment after Donald Trump made false claims about them. Here's how educators can address the aftermath and nurture tolerance and respect in schools.
In recent contract negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union, the district proposed consolidating the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund with the state’s Teacher Retirement System.
Supporters hail the spread of vouchers as moving the state closer to universal school choice. Critics fret about the loss of funding at public schools.
Four schools in the region were honored this year under the U.S. Department of Education program.
Nationwide, 356 public and private schools earned 2024 Blue Ribbon status.
School districts must allocate the last round of federal pandemic relief by Sept. 30 and spend it by January, though Colorado schools may get an extension for the spending deadline.
Higher-poverty schools see more chronic absenteeism. They are taking a closer look at students’ whole environments to find solutions to the issue.