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Tennessee’s universal school voucher bill draft drops. Here are 5 things that stand out.

Chalkbeat | January 30, 2024

While Gov. Bill Lee has repeatedly pledged to build accountability into his voucher proposal, the draft of the plan wouldn’t require participating students to take state tests, or other assessments.

Briefing

How one fearless superintendent is elevating education outside her district

Matt Zalaznick | January 29, 2024

Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders is not sitting idly by while New Hampshire remains at the bottom of the list for per-pupil funding.

Iowa promised $75M for school safety. Two shootings later, the money is largely unspent

January 29, 2024

Citing an urgent need to act after Uvalde and shootings outside a high school and a church in Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds said the state would award up to $50,000 each to 1,500 schools to fix vulnerabilities. Like many other Republicans, she rebuffed calls for stricter gun control while embracing efforts to "harden" schools.

Opinion

What education headlines should say in 2024 vs. current realities

Hans A. Andrews and Greg Rockhold | January 29, 2024

Over the past decade, the teacher shortage crisis has grown in the United States and many other countries. There is much to be done before the situation is under better control and new common-sense solutions are installed.

Eugene school students to automatically receive public library cards in community literacy drive

Oregon Public Broadcasting | January 29, 2024

Thousands of public school students in Eugene are getting library cards delivered straight to their schools. Unless their adults opt out, all Eugene School District 4J students will get a library card delivered to their school, ready to use—no trip to the library necessary.

What’s driving a special education teacher shortage and how schools are responding

PBS NewsHour | January 29, 2024

At the beginning of the current school year, 70% of schools surveyed said they had openings for special education teachers. PBS NewsHour asked special education teachers and administrators to tell us how the shortage is affecting them.

A graduate of Austin schools where his mother taught, Segura is 'all in' as superintendent

Austin American-Statesman | January 29, 2024

When the Austin school board in December 2022 appointed Matias Segura to temporarily run the district while members searched for a superintendent, he was focused on stabilizing the 73,000-student organization after years of turmoil wrought by leadership changes and the COVID-19 pandemic, he said.

A secret shelf of banned books thrives in a Texas school, under the nose of censors

January 28, 2024

"Some of the books that I've read are books like Hood Feminism, The Poet X, Gabi, A Girl in Pieces," says a 17-year-old senior with round glasses and long braids. The books, she says, sparked her feminist consciousness. "I just see, especially in my community, a lot of women being talked down upon and those books [were] really nice to read."

The Seattle School Board rule that nobody seems to want to enforce

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | January 28, 2024

Earlier this month, it became clear that Seattle School Board Director Vivian Song no longer lives in the area she represents. But even though the board acknowledged the problem, it seems unlikely it will take action.

Miami-Dade schools consider workforce housing plan