Politics & Policy
Los trámites burocráticos y las restricciones en la ayuda financiera imponen barreras incluso para los estudiantes inmigrantes autorizados a vivir y trabajar en los Estados Unidos.
Paperwork hurdles, limits on financial aid throw up barriers even for immigrant students authorized to live and work in the United States.
Counselors have long urged students with undocumented parents not to fear filling out financial aid forms. With Trump returning to office, some are having second thoughts.
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 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.
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.
At a Monday Board of Regents meeting, state education officials called for a $2 billion increase in state aid for the 2025-26 school year, as well as updates to Foundation Aid.
A more than 300-page report on how to revise the state’s school funding formula prompted mixed initial reactions from advocates and lawmakers.
Entre las principales propuestas de Donald Trump para el sistema educativo está la eliminación del Departamento de Educación y la ampliación de opciones educativas para las familias.
FutureReadyNYC, which helps schools launch career tracks in education, technology, business, and health care, is expanding to 36 new schools, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.
About half of the city’s public schools would have otherwise lost out on $157 million dollars in midyear cuts, according to the city’s Education Department.
Candidates promised a bigger child tax credit. A Republican-controlled Congress will decide its fate next year.
The election of Donald Trump sent a wave of fear through trans youth and their allies. But they’re also organizing and deploying lessons from states that already have restrictive laws.
Council members discussed a legislative package on Monday that would create a pilot program to bring mental health professionals into middle and high school wellness clubs.
There’s an “urgent need for improved clarity, better and consistent complaint handling processes, and transparency” for Community Education Council elections, Brad Lander wrote.
A new City Council bill would require the Education Department to report annual figures on the number of school librarians across the public school system.
The Panel for Educational Policy was slated to vote on a proposed revision to a 2009 regulation concerning student privacy, but members want the public to weigh in.
Eliminating the U.S. Department of Education might affect funding and civil rights protections for students with disabilities. Or the impact could be relatively minor.
If Trump wins a second term and enacts his immigration policies, what happened during past workplace immigration raids could become more common, affecting students and their schools.
Some recommendations would require legislative changes.