After Nearly 2 Years of Failed Talks, Teachers Go on Strike in Los Angeles for First Time in 30 Years
As Teachers in Los Angeles Strike, the City’s School District Is Warned That It Could Lose Control of Its Finances If It Agrees to a New Contract That Depletes Reserves
Why Are the Teachers in Los Angeles Striking? 8 Ways Negotiations With the District Derailed Over the Holidays
Behind the Looming L.A. Teacher Strike, Crippling Long-Term Debt That’s Left the City Little Room to Negotiate — and May Ultimately Doom the District to State Takeover
18 Key Education Stories to Watch This Year (According to the Experts): Congress, Courts, Choice, Classroom Innovations & More
Los Angeles Teachers to Strike in January If Union Doesn’t Get ‘a Dramatically Different Approach’ From School District
With L.A. Bracing for Its First Teacher Strike in a Generation, Parents Feel ‘Stuck in the Middle,’ Worry Their Children Could Be Harmed by a Shutdown
‘Just Handing Out Diplomas’? New Study Shows California Students Are Enrolling in ‘Credit Recovery’ Programs at a Rate 60 Percent Above the National Average
Diplomas to Nowhere? Even as California’s Graduation Rate Increases, Fewer Than Half of 2018 Grads Meet Minimum Admission Requirements for State’s Public Universities
EDlection2018: Arizona Superintendent Race Between Charter Advocate and Public School Educator Remains Too Close to Call
EDlection2018: Rhode Island Voters Approve $250M Bond to Fix State’s Ailing Public Schools
EDlection2018: Georgia Voters Approve Amendment Empowering Large School Districts to Call Vote on New Sales Tax
EDlection2018: 2016 National Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes Elected to U.S. Congress in CT, Promising to Back Teachers and Increase School Funding
EDlection2018: Republican Kevin Stitt Wins Oklahoma Governor’s Race, Stifling Democratic Hopes of a Teacher #RedForEd Victory
A San Francisco School Board Election Is Giving Non-Citizens a Vote — a First in California. But Here’s Why Many Are Staying Away
Nearly 30 Percent of Teachers Are Chronically Absent. How Rhode Island Is Using ESSA to Move the Needle
Study: One-Fifth of States Fail to Either Collect or Publicize Racial Data on Teachers, Despite Yawning Diversity Gap
A Teacher Asked Twitter How to Explain the Kavanaugh Saga to Students. Thousands — Including Fellow Educators — Responded
Emanuel Confident That Chicago’s Universal Pre-K Program Will Live On After His Exit, but Will Next Mayor Balk at the Price Tag?
Zooming In on Chronic Absenteeism: New Interactive Tool Offers One-Stop Shop to Analyze State, Local, and School Attendance Trends
How States Try (and Sometimes Fail) to Combat Attendance Gaming and Errors as ESSA Ratchets Up the Stakes
‘In God We Trust’: Since 2017, Several States Have Passed Bills Requiring (or Allowing) the Display in Schools, Reigniting Church-State Debate
Educators Hoped ESSA’s ‘5th Indicator’ Would Paint a Clearer Picture of Student Success. But With Some States Now Choosing Up to 11 Different Measures, Experts Worry Results Are a ‘Hodgepodge’
Arne Duncan: ‘I’m Not Convinced This President Wants to Have the Best-Educated Citizenry in the World’
Democrats for Education Reform Release New Poll Suggesting Most Voters Are ‘Education Progressives.’ Here Are 7 Takeaways
Arne Duncan, Obama’s Former Secretary of Education, Just Wrote a Memoir. Here Are 7 Key Highlights
How Many Students Are Chronically Absent in the United States Each Year?
With Nearly 8 Million Students Chronically Absent From School Each Year, 36 States Set Out to Tackle the Problem in New Federal Education Plans. Will It Make a Difference?
As Universal Pre-K Struggles to Secure a Nationwide Platform, It Finds Hope in Cities Like Chicago
Attorney General Sessions Announces $25 Million in Additional School Safety Funds, Saying Grants ‘Will Serve Both Safety and Peace of Mind’
‘One Foot in Puerto Rico, One Foot Here’: High School Seniors Who Fled to the U.S. Mainland After Hurricane Maria Recount Their Tumultuous Path to Graduation
In Emergency Move, DC Council Passes a Possible Reprieve for Chronically Absent Seniors — the Latest Response to the District’s Graduation Scandal
As America Grapples With Gun Violence in Schools, a UVA Librarian Recounts How — and Where — It All Began
Civil Rights Groups Are Pressing Betsy DeVos to Affirm a Supreme Court Decision That Protects Undocumented Students’ Education. Here’s the Backstory on Plyler v. Doe
Police Officer Thwarts School Shooting in Illinois After Exchanging Gunfire, Injuring Attacker; At Least 41 Killed and 70 Injured at Schools in 2018
‘All of These Tweets Are People’s Futures’: After Texas Tragedy, Hashtag #IfIDieInASchoolShooting Gives Voice to Students’ Despair
Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan Endorses ‘Provocative’ Call to Curb Gun Violence: A School Boycott
From Viral Video to the Classroom: Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ Spurs Discussion on Race, Gun Violence, and History
7 Updates on Santa Fe High School Rampage: Here’s What We Know So Far About Mass Shooting That Left 10 Dead
10 Dead and 13 injured in Texas School Shooting Friday; At Least 41 Killed and 70 Injured at Schools in 2018
Teacher Appreciation Week: A Look Back at 18 Incredible (and Inspiring) Ways Students & Schools Celebrated Their Teachers Over the Past Year