Des Moines Public Schools promotes Matt Smith while a large group of female leaders ascends to the superintendency.

When racial disparities persist across schools, districts, states, and generations—particularly in disciplinary categories governed by subjective judgment—they become evidence of a pattern worth examining.

The key to solving chronic absenteeism isn't stacking more interventions; it's greater precision about where to focus efforts.

The Justice Department is seeking to end long-standing consent decrees dating back decades that sought to curb unlawful racial segregation that was prevalent during the Jim Crow era.