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In Kentucky Coal Country, Nonprofit Sees Drone Technology as the Future of Education — and Jobs

How Arkansas Is Teaming Up With Teachers, Facebook & Other Tech Titans to Rethink Computer Science Education

As More Parents of Special Needs Students Seek Out Individualized Options, KIPP Expands ‘Pathways’ Program

Delaware Lawmakers Mull Nixing State Board of Ed to Help Ease Budget Crisis

South Carolina Announces $250,000 Fellowships for Educators to Launch Top-Notch Charter Schools

New CREDO Report Finds Nonprofit Charter Schools Perform Better for Children Than For-Profit Charters

What Defines a Segregated School? Debate Over Connecticut Integration Policy Heading to Court

Kansas Lawmakers Veto Governor’s Budget Plan, Add $300 Million for State’s Underfunded Schools

California Assembly Passes Sanctuary Bills Shielding K-12, College Students From Immigration Enforcement

Pharmaceutical Industry Urges Better K-12 STEM Education to Close Skills Gap & Avoid Worker Shortage

2 NJ High School Students Create Racial Literacy Text to Help Schools and Teens Learn to Talk About Race

John Legend Forks Over $5,000 to Help Pay Lunch Bill Debts for Seattle Public School Students

New Scholarships Help Low-Income Boston HS Grads — District, Charter, Parochial — Go to College for Free

Appellate Court Backs Wisconsin Transgender Student, Cites Federal Ed Law on Gender Bias

ICYMI: New Jersey Parents Appeal Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Last In, First Out Teacher Layoff Policies

How 2 Business-Savvy Nonprofits Are Breathing New Life Into Philadelphia’s Struggling Catholic Schools

Wisconsin Lawmaker Tells Betsy DeVos That Vouchers Don’t Help Rural Kids. Research Shows He’s Right

Candidates Are Drawing School Choice Battle Lines in Campaign to Succeed New Jersey Gov. Christie

Inside the School Lunch Affordability Gap: Too Affluent for Free Food, Can’t Afford $1.75 Meals

ESSA as Campaign Issue? Michigan Lt. Gov. Wants Plan Back in New Debate on Counting Special Ed Kids

Charter Schools Receive $5,721 Less Per Student Than District Schools, New Research Finds

How Desmos Is Shaking Up the Calculator Industry With a Free Tool for Kids, Now Embedded Into Tests

New Jersey Judge Tosses Parents’ Lawsuit Claiming Last In, First Out Layoff Rules Harm Students

3 Things You Need to Know About The Associated Press’s Jaw-Dropping Investigation of Sexual Assaults by Students

Opt Out at Florida’s Supreme Court: How a Fight Over a Third-Grade Test Is Pitting Parents vs. the State

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74 Interview: Professor Cheryl Fields-Smith on Why More Black Families Are Homeschooling Their Kids

Newark Voters Gear Up for Last School Board Race Before State Is Set to Return District to Local Control

Black Girls 6 Times as Likely to Be Suspended as Whites. ‘Let Her Learn’ Looks to Reverse the Trend

Personalized Learning

Tennessee Bets Big on Personalized Learning, Launching Pilot Program & Eyeing Big 2020 Goals

Tennessee Legislators Seek State’s First Voucher Law With Targeted Program for Memphis Kids

Want Another Parent to Homeschool Your Child? Welcome to Georgia’s Homeschool Schools

Suburban Districts Cry Foul As Connecticut Governor Looks to Shift State Funds to Poorer Urban Schools

Wisconsin Targets Wi-Fi, Busing, Teacher Staffing Woes With $30 Million for Underfunded Rural Schools

Massachusetts Looking to Downplay Kids’ Test Scores as Key Measure in Teacher Evaluations

Tennessee District Weighs Giving Principals More Money, Spending Power to Help High-Needs Kids

In Delaware, Critics Worry That ESSA Plans Will Give Low-Performing Schools Too Much Wiggle Room

Photos: Parents Took Their Kids to the Immigration Protests — and Created a Teachable Moment

Steve Snyder, Naomi Nix & Mark Keierleber

2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

America’s School Choice Map: 5 Hot Spots for Vouchers, Savings Accounts and Tuition Tax Breaks

California District Denies Students Hot Lunch, Use of Cafeteria and Play Area, Charter School Says

Republican Tennessee Lawmakers Gear Up for New Voucher Proposals in Wake of Trump Election

Trump Nominees Sessions and Kelly Duck DACA, Immigration Questions at Confirmation Hearings

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74 Interview: New Leaders Co-founder Benjamin Fenton on ESSA and How to Develop Better Principals

Student Test Scores Are on the Rise. Does That Mean Common Core Is Working?

How a Cultural Arts Center Built a High School to Mold Aspiring Artists

3 Shocking Ways Mass Incarceration Affects Kids’ Educations

Cory Booker Has ‘Serious Early Concerns’ About Nomination of DeVos as Education Sec’y

Pumped for Programming: ‘Hour of Code’ Highlights the Need for Computer Science Education

DACA Supporters Fear What Attorney General Jeff Sessions Would Mean for Immigrant Youth

Common Core, Trumped: Ed Secretary Hopeful DeVos Aligns With Pence in Pushing Local Standards

Louisiana Supt. John White Slams NEA Chief Over Criticism of New Orleans Recovery After Katrina

Students Fear Trump’s Vow to End DACA Could Mean Deportations — and an End to Their College Dreams

School Bullying After the Election: Students and Parents Recount Rising Anxiety and Intimidation

Naomi Nix & Mark Keierleber

Gary Herbert, Who Changed Positions on the Common Core, Wins Utah Governor’s Race

New Jersey Parents File Lawsuit to End First-In, Last-Out Layoffs

SCOTUS to Hear Virginia Transgender Case With Big Implications for Ed Policy and Beyond

Carolyn Phenicie, Naomi Nix & Mark Keierleber

Charlie Baker Optimistic Voters Will Lift Charter Cap in Massachusetts Despite Rising Opposition

74 Interview: Roland Martin’s Plans to Spread Quality Charters to Smaller Cities Post-NAACP

Are Charters Only ‘Path to Salvation’? No Way, Says Newark Schools Chief

As NAACP Votes for Charter Moratorium, School Families Rally Outside

Hilary Shelton Previews the NAACP’s Charter School Vote and How a National Moratorium Would Work

Chicago Avoids Teachers Strike, but Charter School Leaders Cry Foul Over Cap Slipped Into Negotiations

Chicago Charter School Families Protest Cap As Strike Deadline Looms

Is School Choice the Black Choice? Leaders Gather in D.C. to Disagree on Education Policy

How Denver Is Tackling the ‘Invisible Tax’ on Black Educators

Opponents of Ed Reform Also Unhappy With Candidates’ Silence on Education

KIPP Grieves, Mobilizes After Tulsa Shooting

Black Charter Leaders to NAACP: Hands Off Our Schools

Much Attention on Upcoming NAACP Charter Vote, Even if It’s Just the Latest in a Long Line

NJ’s Chris Christie to Challenge Decades-Old Abbott Funding Plan for Poor Cities

How a Manhattan High School’s Turnaround Story Could Shape Trump’s (and Clinton’s) Education Plan

3 Things to Know About the Explosive Houston Chronicle Investigation of Texas’ Special Ed Policies

New York City’s Summer Training Chasm: 2 Teachers, 2 Vastly Different First Weeks at School

3 Things the New Trump Book Reveals About His Rebellious, Defining Days in School

The Financial Catastrophe Looming Over Chicago Public Schools, in 6 Numbers

Parents Like Tests But Don’t Know How Much School Costs — 4 Takeaways from the New EdNext Poll

A New Nashville School Is Integrating its Students, Eliminating Suspensions — and Acing the State Tests

Training, Internships, Jobs in Growing Industries: How YouthForce Nola Is Helping New Orleans’ Teens

Should They Stay or Should They Go: Missouri Families in Michael Brown’s High School Face a Hard Choice

NAACP May Double Down on Charter School Opposition as Civil Rights Allies Strongly Disagree

New York’s Testing Landscape Changes and Scores Get Better, Opt-Out Movement Holds Steady

Jersey Roar: Schools Make A Comeback in Camden, the Nation’s Most Distressed City

6 Lessons From Standardized Testing’s Stubborn Tech Crisis

A Student Protest at High-Achieving Charter High School Spotlights Teacher Diversity Struggle

How Do You Monitor Homeschooling Parents? Welcome to the Wild West of Education Regulation

Connecticut’s Shame: In One of America’s Richest Counties, a High School Has Been Failing for 50 Years

New Minnesota Lawsuit Challenges State’s Teacher Tenure and Dismissal Process

Chicago Public Schools 101: The Politics, Passion and Hopeless Financials Behind a System in Crisis

Matt Barnum & Naomi Nix

Chicago Public Schools 101: The Politics, Passion and Hopeless Financials Behind a System in Crisis

Matt Barnum & Naomi Nix

Opt Out Round II: States Walk a Line Between Boycotters’ Demands and Feds’ Funding Threats

Welcome to New Jersey, Where More Than Half of All School Board Races Have One — or No —Candidate

#WhichBernie Supports School Choice? Inside Sanders’ Super Tuesday Pivot on Charter Schools

High-ranking NJ Teachers Union Leader Can’t Also Sit on Board That OKs School Budget, Judge Says

Why Some Indiana Lawmakers Want to Bypass Teachers Unions to Pay Educators More Money (UPDATED)

Long Struggle Against Teacher Sex Abuse in Spotlight After Investigation

Schools — Not Just States — to Finally Get Access to Teacher Misconduct Data After National Investigation

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Q&A: Former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Talks L.A. Charter Expansion, the Friedrichs Case at the Supreme Court — and a Possible Run for Governor

‘I’m Scared for Kids in This City’: Yet Another Chicago Public Schools Showdown Leaves Parents Fuming

School Choice 2016

How a Newark Monastery Trains Young Men in School — and Life

MLK III Leads March in Support of Florida School Vouchers, Tapping into Civil Rights Legacy

Chicago Schools Issue Call for New Charters to Serve Traumatized Students

Refugees Welcome Here: Connecticut Public Schools’ Ambitious Plan to Embrace Syrian Students

Alaska’s Campaign to Get Faster Internet to Its Most Remote Schools — Where Even Dial-Up Is a Luxury

Rahm vs. the Teachers Union II? Teachers Vote To Strike, Will Politics Play Differently This Time

When Zuckerberg Commits Billions for Personalized Learning, He’s Thinking of Programs Like NJ’s ‘Teach to One’

Why Oklahoma Is Racing to Put Nearly 1,000 Uncertified Teachers In Its Classrooms

Documents Show Teachers Unions Spent Millions on Luxury Hotels, Overseas Travel, Car Services

No iPhone? Slow Wi-Fi? Arkansas Schools Build Texting App to Help Rural Students with College Search

On the Campaign Trail

Hillary Clinton Rushes to Clarify Charter Critique in Sit-Down with AFT and Data-Driven Blog Post

Exclusive: Roland Martin Says Hillary Clinton ‘Trying to Have It Both Ways’ With Calculated Charter Rhetoric

#TeachStrong: Teachers Unions, Reform Groups Launch Joint Campaign to Elevate Educators

Parents Cheer after Judge Denies Second Request to Dismiss New York Teacher Tenure Case

Can Newark’s New(ish) Schools Chief Chris Cerf Bring Political Peace and Lasting Change?

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Cami Anderson Talks Ed Reform, Facebook and What ‘The Prize’ Left Out About Newark

VIDEO: Meet the NYC Parents Who Marched Across the Brooklyn Bridge in Support of School Choice

Naomi Nix & Mark Keierleber

Analysis: Jeb Bush Wasn’t Just Talking About ‘Free Stuff.’ He Was Talking About Getting Poor Kids Into Better Schools

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Shavar Jeffries’ Breakthrough: What Newark Politics Taught Him About Taking Ed Reform National

Absurd Policy Allows NYC Teachers to Earn Raises Via Tests That Have Nothing To Do With Their Job

New York Teacher Tenure Suit Challenged Again by Union and State Officials

The 2015 NH Education Summit

Chris Christie Dances on Common Core, Tangles with Bush on Randi Weingarten, in NH Conversation

NY’s Test Boycott Tops Out at 20%. Enough, Union says, to Affect Scores

A Boston Breakthrough: UP Academy Goes From Failing to First

A Year After Ferguson, St. Louis Parents Fight to Escape Michael Brown’s Terrible High School

Transgender Students

After Caitlyn Jenner, a New World for Transgender Students — and a New Civil Rights Battleground

Anatomy of an Opt-Out Movement: The Secret Forces Targeting the Classrooms of Montclair, NJ

Meet the Tech Guru Taking on the Word Gap One Mobile App at a Time

On the Campaign Trail

Exclusive: The Politics of Education At the Aspen Ideas Festival

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