Federal K12 school funding averaged $360 per person in 2023, but it's at risk as the Trump administration ties funding to anti-DEI policies and aims to abolish the Education Department. Lawsuits are already challenging the move.
Representation matters—not as a symbolic gesture, but because it results in better outcomes. Diverse teaching staff contribute to higher academic achievement and stronger relationships with students.
Standardized test scores are an outdated metric for measuring school performance. Instead, schools should be measured based on the balancing of five important factors.
After weeks of protests, Tennessee Republicans paused a bill to let public schools deny enrollment to undocumented children—but supporters say it will return.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems sympathetic to the Catholic Church’s bid to create the nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma, a potentially major expansion of the use of taxpayer money for religious education.
DEI appears to be the reason the Trump administration is slashing $1 billion in school mental health grants created after the Uvalde mass shooting, according to multiple reports.
