The Trump administration has threatened to boost immigration enforcement in Chicago and deploy the National Guard to the city.
The Trump administration has threatened to boost immigration enforcement in Chicago and deploy the National Guard to the city.
The frontrunner to be the city’s next mayor has not committed to releasing a detailed vision for the city’s public schools before the election.
Este maestro de cuarto grado en Newark pasó de la vida corporativa a un salón de clases y nos cuenta por qué lo hizo y lo que más le encanta de enseñarle a sus niños.
Policy changes and budget cuts could deprive immigrant students of the safe, engaging learning environments they deserve.
Scores fell for both boys and girls, but girls’ scores fell more. The reasons why are not entirely clear.
There are 4 seats on the 7-member board that are up for election Nov. 4.
States had already finalized their nominations when the Trump administration announced an end to the program as part of its campaign to return education to the states.
The Protect Colorado’s Future coalition is made up of 13 liberal advocacy groups. They hope to get a measure on the 2026 ballot to change tax policy and raise money for schools and other services.
The new state requirements come as the Trump administration is pulling back federal support for such students.
Eric Adams and Zohran Mamdani both visited schools in Queens to kick off the year.
These practices can feel like luxuries, but they are necessities.
Four seats on the seven-member board are up for election Nov. 4.
However, more school districts have landed on the state accountability clock, a watchlist that ticks toward intervention.
A former Queens COVID testing site is now a $178 million state-of-the-art campus for high schools focused on health care, film, and tech, as well as a special education school.
New York City schools face major policy changes from class size caps to a statewide cellphone ban and a pivotal mayoral election that could reshape the system midyear.
Students of color deserve teachers who look like them. But the responsibility to educate Black students shouldn’t fall disproportionately on Black educators.
Colorado will spend about $349 million on universal preschool this school year.
The U.S. Air Force deactivated the Chicago school's program for noncompliance on Aug. 11, one week before school started. CPS announced it would continue JROTC through the U.S. Army.
With just days left for NYC families to claim $120 per child in summer food benefits, millions of dollars are going unclaimed as the Sept. 4 application deadline looms.
Newark Public Schools students returned to classes on Tuesday. District leaders also celebrated the opening of the Newark School of Architecture and Interior Design after a three-year delay.
Jeff Butts shares lessons learned from leading the district on the west side of Marion County and discusses what’s next for him.
Superintendent Alex Marrero did not say Friday whether Denver Public Schools would comply with the Trump administration’s proposed resolution.
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Superintendent Alex Marrero did not say Friday whether Denver Public Schools would comply with the Trump administration’s proposed resolution.
New standards for school lunches and hospital meals include a ban on processed meats and restrictions on artificial colors, additives, and preservatives.
The Margaret McFarland Learning Academy, previously known as the district’s ROOTS program, serves students with the most intensive needs.
Before Thursday’s budget vote, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office and Chicago Public Schools officials tussled for weeks over whether the district should take out a high-cost loan for a pension payment.
Teachers and other school staff will receive annual 3% raises under the new 3-year contract.
President Trump has made targeting protections for LGBTQ students a key part of his second term. Denver Public Schools says it is determining its next steps.
The transit authority has agreed to restore some bus lines that serve students after they were eliminated as part of sweeping transit cuts.
At M.S. 50, educators believe that student debaters make the best arguments when they believe what they’re saying — and it draws on their own experiences.
Renovations to the former Forest Manor Middle School building are part of a new beginning for Andrew J. Brown Academy, which broke ties with a for-profit charter operator last year.
The department had mulled moving its division handling public school safety from a community bureau to the office of Chief of Department John Chell.
MSCS earned the highest score in the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System for the fourth year in a row. But younger students lost progress in social studies, falling behind expected growth.
One remembered floating corpses. Another recalled kids living without their parents. And getting laid off couldn’t keep a determined math teacher and football coach away from the city’s students.
The resignation of the Irvington Community Schools board chair — and the vote to remove a second member from the board — follows heightened criticism from students, parents, and staff over conflicts of interest in the charter network’s search for a new CEO.
Though the district is still behind statewide averages, it has shown consistent improvement over the course of 11 years.
A student is chronically absent if they miss 10% or more of their school days. The new data is bad news for the state’s goal to cut chronic absenteeism in half.
Dan Weisberg, the system’s second-in-command, and Deputy Chancellor Emma Vadehra, are stepping down. The pair were leading implementation of a new class size mandate.
Beech Grove is teaming up with the programs run by Stride/K12 to respond to growth in virtual enrollment.
State Superintendent Michael Rice said the Michigan Legislature must provide children with lower class sizes in high poverty K-3 classrooms, more in-person instructional time, and funding for more research-based early literacy materials.
The public hearing to discuss and vote on extending Superintendent Roger León’s contract is not listed on the district’s website, but is scheduled to take place in September.
In a potentially final bid to whip up support for its budget, CPS officials said the desire to reimburse the city for a much-debated pension payment and taking out a $200 million loan would result in cuts to schools and a credit downgrade for the district.