Marie Feagins faced a board resolution accusing her of ‘professional misconduct.’
Marie Feagins faced a board resolution accusing her of ‘professional misconduct.’
City officials want to spend $1.9 million on an AI tutor to help students learn to read. Comptroller Brad Lander says the city needs a clear policy on the technology first.
Schools should work with other community leaders, have a message prepared, and have a plan to raise money to help students, Steve Joel said.
A year into the job, the head of Chicago Public School’s disability office is focused on chronic absenteeism and students’ transition to adulthood.
The school’s child-centered model is facing some headwinds at a time when New York City is leaning more on curriculum mandates and data-driven assessments.
The window to apply is opening 2 months earlier than last year, and there are other changes.
The mayor’s announcement came on the last day of a state-imposed deadline for his choices for the new 21-person board, which will include 10 elected members.
Marie Feagins won the post after a search that lasted more than a year. She’s been in it for just over eight months.
Las universidades de Colorado seguirán un plan similar al de 2016 para ayudar a los estudiantes inmigrantes en los campus universitarios.
Trips to the post office, Statehouse, and polling station are all part of the practical education that Laura Hinz teaches her students.
The conference marked 20 years since city officials made major reforms that set the admissions system on the path to what families see today.
Colorado education officials’ ‘wildly important goals’ include cutting absenteeism, boosting reading
The goals are ambitious and meant to address some of the 880,000-student system’s thorniest challenges.
Boosting enrollment in the state-funded preschool program is one of Colorado’s key goals.
The nonprofit network helps operate 17 city public schools that cater exclusively to newly arrived immigrant students, serving as a national model for educating newcomers.
The Detroit school district has worked to increase AP offerings in all high schools and encourage students to take the rigorous courses.
During a lame duck session, Senate Democrats approved bills that could require more financial transparency for charter schools.
Surveys show many teachers haven’t been trained by school districts on how to use AI. That presents a potent risk to sensitive personal data.
Surveys indicate many teachers haven’t been trained on how to use AI tools, even as some grow more comfortable with using them.
What the writer, who died this week at age 81, taught me about Mars, freedom dreaming, and the power of a good cry.
Acero said it would close 7 schools before the 2025-26 school year due to a $40 million budget shortfall.
The Chicago Teachers Union says Trump’s mass deportation plans make it especially urgent for the district to agree to a new contract before 2025.
El consejo escolar de Aurora votará sobre la recomendación el 17 de diciembre. Las high schools integrales en el distrito han estado probando los materiales desde agosto.
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El consejo escolar de Aurora votará sobre la recomendación el 17 de diciembre. Las high schools integrales en el distrito han estado probando los materiales desde agosto.
Protesters blasted the board members for their ‘Gestapo’ tactics, and Reginald Streater shut down the meeting for about 20 minutes.
Former Chicago Public Schools administrators will join the school board today at its December meeting.
So-called ‘opportunity’ charter schools will be held to a different standard
The School for Global Leaders, an International Baccalaureate middle school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, will welcome its first ninth grade class next year.
The district wants legal clarity on whether it can use operating millage revenue to pay off all of its historic debt.
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.