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Students activists at Western International High School are planning a press conference and rally for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Clark Park.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani taps child care advocates and de Blasio-era officials for his youth and education committee. Current K-12 educators and students were notably absent.
Thirty-nine MSCS schools will face a new intervention model to boost student performance. But the district is also improving under the new system.
Months into ICE raids, Chicago teachers and community members are finding ways to help students cope with trauma inflicted on their communities.
Left-wing political coalitions have typically supported elected school boards. Yet as districts face new existential threats, progressive mayors are testing that and other assumptions.
The Denver Classroom Teachers Association has filed a grievance alleging that Denver Public Schools is violating a new provision of the teachers contract.
State lawmakers approved an initiative this year that aims to help students connect their education to the workforce.
The district is exploring ways to continue to boost ridership. The project began to improve attendance.
Proposed governance changes from the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance range from an elected IPS board that oversees both district and charter schools to an IPS board fully appointed by the mayor.
Mayor Eric Adams has lost control of New York City’s school board. He no longer has a majority of appointees, and members have rejected several proposals recently.
The state board’s current proposal would drop the 9th Grade On-Track metric from the calculation used to label schools based on performance. The changes have raised concerns for board members and local advocates.
As the federal government ratched up immigration enforcement in Chicago, local organizations and legal groups have pushed families to create documents that give temporary custody of their children to someone they trust.
The lawsuit marks the first legal challenge to the Education Freedom Scholarship Act, which gave $7,295 in public tax dollars this fall to 20,000 Tennessee students.
A growing number of Colorado university faculty assemblies have asked their campus leaders to consider banding together to defend against the Trump administration.
Under their prior contract agreement, members of the CASA union agreed not to strike or stop work. The union president demanded an end to ‘wage compression.’
Students at Manual High School and Denver School of the Arts will be able to take classes through the Iovine and Young Center for Innovation starting next fall.