The governor and lawmakers are nearing an agreement on a full-day smartphone ban known as “bell to bell,” a move supported by 62 percent of voters, according to a recent Siena poll.
Another federal program meant to help deliver local fresh produce to students is being delayed after funding for this year’s Farm to School grants was suspended.
S.B. 1 will set rules around classroom discussion, create post-tenure reviews, put diversity scholarships at risk, create a retrenchment provision that block unions from negotiating on tenure, shorten university board of trustees terms from nine years down to six years, and require students take an American history course, among other things.
Data from the Pew Research Center shows that Colorado has the shortest school year of any U.S. state, just 160 days. It seemed like Colorado children were receiving about a month less classroom time than their peers elsewhere in the country.
Schools around the world have implemented phone bans. The guiding principle everywhere has been to help students do better in school. But studies have shown these bans often don’t work as planned.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the Trump administration won’t penalize states that reject school choice, calling it a state issue. Her remarks follow Trump’s executive order to close the Department of Education and expand school choice efforts.
Texas Republicans pushing for vouchers often note that the state’s public schools receive more than $15,000 per student. But that doesn’t account for inflation or reflect the money districts can actually use.
Republican senators in Tennessee are targeting school board and superintendent associations following opposition to the governor’s private-school voucher bill. A new bill would bar districts from funding lobbying groups, and lawmakers are requesting internal communications from the Tennessee School Boards Association related to vouchers.
The Education Department plans to reopen applications for income-driven student loan repayment programs as soon as Wednesday, allowing borrowers to once again cap monthly payments based on their income.
In 2024, 71% of the $200 billion education budget went to college student aid, while 25% supported K12 schools, including low-income districts and special education, according to global media nonprofit Poynter.
Two weeks after the Trump administration cut nearly half of the Department of Education’s workforce, former employees describe widespread confusion, shock and uncertainty about the future. Zoom calls and farewell events for affected staff are taking place this week.
President Trump’s move to eliminate most of the Department of Education and fund school choice programs has divided Republicans. Tennessee Rep. Todd Warner supports less federal control but insists public schools are essential and should remain well-funded.
More than a dozen states in the past two years have launched or expanded programs that allow families to use taxpayer dollars to send their students to private schools. Now, President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress want to supercharge those efforts.
high-profile controversies including vaccine mandates, LGBTQ+ rights and teaching about race and American history have led to big gains for Republicans on Wisconsin’s school boards.
National political groups have taken notice – and don’t want to lose that momentum.
The Trump administration promised to preserve legally protected formula funding for schools, but is cutting nearly all the data experts who determine which schools qualify—raising doubts about how the grants will be properly distributed.
Current and former staffers, financial aid officers and previous education secretaries are doubtful the office that helps students pay for college won't be disrupted by mass layoffs and resignations.
As schools face declining enrollment, many are also dealing with the fact that their federal coronavirus relief funds have been used up and they lack the money to continue paying all their staff.
Grant School District is hundreds of thousands of dollars into a project that is supposed to be reimbursed by the federal government. Now, it’s not clear the feds will pay.
Educators nationwide have said that their students returned to classrooms after the pandemic with lower academic skills than before and it's been a challenge to catch kids up.
A judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate some of the education grants it had nixed as part of its work to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Alabama is the only state where 4th-grade math scores have improved since 2019. A district credits its success to reimagined math instruction and investing COVID relief funds in hands-on learning tools.
The university will also make schooling completely free for students from families with annual incomes of $100,000 or less, with financial aid that covers tuition, food, housing, health insurance and travel costs.
Underprepared teachers have been tied to student learning losses. But amid a teacher shortage crisis, school leaders fear the restrictions will lead to fewer instructors in their classrooms.
A bill by Sen. David Farnsworth (R-Mesa) would require school leaders to teach a class one day each year. He says it would help address Arizona’s teacher shortage and improve officials’ understanding of educators’ needs.
After a man threatened an elementary school in her district, Assemblymember Darshana Patel wants to close a loophole in the law that makes it harder to prosecute threats against places than individuals.
Some schools are seeing a significant difference between the number of students they count in their own enrollment data and the “full-time equivalent” data that the state uses to calculate the number of students a school has.
Facing empty classrooms and dwindling dollars, many public school leaders are trying to figure out where all the kids went and what declining public school enrollment could mean for the communities they serve.
Vancouver and many other districts around the country have turned to technology to monitor school-issued devices 24/7 for any signs of danger as they grapple with a student mental health crisis and the threat of shootings.
As education scholars focused on literacy practices in schools, here are five ways the COVID-19 pandemic—and the rapid shift to remote learning and back—transformed education.
Some Colorado schools use facial recognition cameras to track students in real time. A proposed state bill seeks to regulate the technology amid growing debate over its impact on safety and student privacy.
Three tribal nations and five Native American students claim in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes when it cut jobs at Bureau of Indian Education schools.
Two recent school shootings are highlighting what extremism researchers see as a growing—and poorly understood—trend among young people who embrace mass violence.
The $1.64 trillion financial portfolio is managed separately from the department’s policy apparatus, the latter of which Trump has sought to wind down or reassign to other agencies. President Trump acknowledged that the massive loan balance was a complicating factor in his effort to shutter the agency.
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