Schools' New Normal

Mayor Eric Adams is cutting nearly $7 million from NYC’s after-school program, scrapping about 3,500 seats at a time when interest in programs is on the rise.

According to a new report from researchers at Harvard and Stanford, Illinois and Chicago are leaders nationally when it comes to reading growth in the wake of the COVID pandemic.

A new analysis finds students are making up for lost learning, but some are being left behind. There’s still time for states and districts to act.

What did school communities face in 2023? Waning COVID relief funding, rising chronic absenteeism, and ChatGPT controversy, just to name a few.

Chicago works to end inequitable access to middle school algebra partly with virtual courses

The cuts will affect universal preschool, wraparound services in community schools, and a popular summer school program.

Los estudiantes que están aprendiendo inglés logran recuperarse mejor académicamente después de COVID en distritos escolares de Colorado que ofrecen tutoría y los ayudan a mantenerse en salones regulares.

While some local school leaders have instituted new strategies to help students learning English, other districts aren’t especially concerned.

The city’s population of homeless students was astronomical even before the recent influx, exceeding 100,000 for each of the past eight years.

Esto significa que por lo menos $35 millones en beneficios potenciales siguen sin utilizarse y podrían caducar a principios del año que viene.

Nearly 55,000 students use SEPTA to get to and from school, and the district would be unable to find suitable transportation for them if transit workers strike next week.

Schools get money in the summer based on the city’s projections of how many students are expected to fill their seats. After the final tallies are taken on Oct. 31, the Education Department adjusts school budgets, clawing back money from schools that enroll fewer students than anticipated.

Indianapolis Public Schools is one of few area districts that offer free prekindergarten. That could change as federal aid expires.

Newly released state data shows chronic absenteeism is higher than before the pandemic.