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Election 2023

Competing K–12 Visions Collide in Chicago Mayor’s Race

Kevin Mahnken
K-12 Funding

‘The Wild West’: GOP Lawmakers Push to Refuse Billions in Federal School Funds

Linda Jacobson
The Big Picture

Denver’s Reforms Led to Huge Academic Growth, Study Finds. But Will They Last?

Kevin Mahnken
parents

GOP Parents Rights Bill Passes House, But Faces Likely ‘Dead End’ in Senate

Linda Jacobson
Alaska

K-12 Funding Increase Takes First Step Forward in Alaska House

James Brooks
Featured

Classical Academies: What if Education’s Next Big Thing is 2,500 Years Old?

Kevin Mahnken
K-12 Funding

As Testing Approaches, Tenn. Reconsiders Holding Back Third Graders

Linda Jacobson
special education

Supreme Court Rules 9-0 in Favor of Deaf Man in Special Education Case

Linda Jacobson
enrollment

Public School Enrollment Dropped by 1.2M During the Pandemic

Thomas Dee
The Big Picture

Tough Love: Study Shows Kids Benefit from Teachers With High Grading Standards

Kevin Mahnken
Los Angeles

Carvalho Faces ‘Defining Moment’ as L.A.’s Largest Unions Prepare to Strike

Linda Jacobson
learning loss

In Rare Move, New Mexico Adds Weeks’ Worth of Extra K-12 Class Time

Kevin Mahnken
dyslexia

Despite Union Opposition, Many California Teachers Support Dyslexia Screening For All Students

Joe Hong
K-12 Funding

Showdown Over Biden’s Education Budget Likely as Conservatives Call for Cuts

Linda Jacobson
congress

Parents’ Bill of Rights: Amid Hot Debate, Democrats File Alternative to GOP Bill

Linda Jacobson
Missouri

New Testing Data Show K-12 Student Performance Dropped Dramatically in Missouri

Annelise Hanshaw
North Carolina

Whole Child NC Committee Plans to Make Recommendations to State Board in June

Rupen Fofaria
school choice

Florida School Choice Bill Has a Hidden Reform: Part-Time Enrollment

Kevin Mahnken
congress

House GOP Pushes Parents Bill of Rights, But Some Advocates Call it ‘Tone Deaf’

Linda Jacobson
Nebraska

Nebraska Lawmaker Proposes Expanding NEST 529 Plans to K-12 Private Education

Zach Wendling
design-based education

Q&A: Why Virtual Learning Will Thrive Long After the Pandemic

Greg Toppo
Supreme Court

Supreme Court Skeptical Biden Has Authority to Cancel Student Loan Debt

Linda Jacobson
South by Southwest Education

South by Southwest Education: 23 Panels & Sessions Worth Seeing in 2023

Greg Toppo
charter school

New Oklahoma Legal Opinion Leaves Vote on Catholic Charter School in Limbo

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Exclusive: Despite K-2 Reading Gains, Results Flat for 3rd Grade ‘COVID Kids’

Linda Jacobson
Hawaii

The Decades-Old Debate Over Breaking Up Hawaii’s Statewide School System

Jessica Terrell
student loans

In Debt Relief Case, U.S. To Argue Borrowers ‘Suffered Profound Financial Harms’

Linda Jacobson
74 interview

‘It’s Erasing History’: Daryl Scott on Black Studies and the AP Clash in Florida

Kevin Mahnken
congress

Once a Charter Fan, Democratic Leader Jeffries Expected to ‘Downplay’ Support

Linda Jacobson
Analysis

Title I Funding Has Doubled — But Its Most Potent Formula Is Stuck in the Past

Anne Hyslop & Rebeca Shackleford
mental health

1.3 Million Los Angeles Students Could Soon Access Free Teletherapy

Marianna McMurdock
teacher pay

Foxx Says She Won’t Support Democrats’ ‘Top-Down’ Teacher Pay Plan

Linda Jacobson
education politics

Under Huckabee Sanders, Red-State Reforms Now Roll Through Arkansas

Kevin Mahnken
Following the Covid Money

Stockton School Officials Could Face Criminal Charges After Blistering Audit

Linda Jacobson
education savings accounts

National Poll Finds Overwhelming Support Among Black Teachers & Parents for ESAs

Joshua Bay
Following the Covid Money

Stockton, CA: What Happens When a Dysfunctional District Gets $241 Million

Linda Jacobson
mental health

Nearly 1 in 5 Teen Girls ‘Engulfed’ In Wave of Sexual Violence; Many Suicidal

Marianna McMurdock
Montana

Montana House Advances Obscenity Bill That Would Subject School Employees to Criminal Liability

Blair Miller
teacher shortage

Teachers Are Leaving the Profession for a Mix of Reasons, Say Lawmakers and Education Officials

McKenna Horsley
education savings accounts

Education Savings Account Bills Fail in Virginia House and Senate

Nathaniel Cline
The Big Picture

NCES: 49% of Students Started Year Below Grade Level, Usually in Math, Reading

Linda Jacobson
74 interview

Q&A: Khan Academy’s Sal Khan on COVID’s Staggering Impact on Student Math Skills

Kevin Mahnken
Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Scores a C+ At the University of Minnesota Law School. Now What?

Greg Toppo
school choice

Arizona Parents are Using Public Ed $ for Kayaks, Trampolines & SeaWorld Tickets

Linda Jacobson
3rd grade

Michigan May Reverse Law Requiring 3rd-Graders Behind in Reading to Repeat Grade

Allison Donahue
Indiana

Education Bills Seeking to Overhaul School Curriculum Advance in Indiana Legislature

Casey Smith
Teaching History

How Educators Can Help Kids Make Sense of Tyre Nichols’s Death

Marianna McMurdock
school choice

Homeschooling 2.0: Less Religious and Conservative, More Focused on Quality

Greg Toppo
The Big Picture

Global Learning Loss: Top 4 Takeaways from Latest International COVID Research

Kevin Mahnken
The New Normal

Schools’ New Normal: Teacher Shortages, Repeat Meals, Late Buses, Canceled Classes

Marianna McMurdock, Joshua Bay & Meghan Gallagher
The New Normal

One Florida Principal’s Solution to Teacher Shortages? Recruiting His Students

Joshua Bay
education politics

In 2022 Midterms, Career Ed Emerged as Rare Source of Bipartisan Agreement

Greg Toppo
school choice

After Years of Debate, Iowa Passes Statewide Education Savings Account Program

Robin Opsahl
Department of Education

Cardona Calls for Better Teacher Pay, More Multilingualism in Speech

Kevin Mahnken
National School Choice Week

Study Finds School Vouchers Decrease Racial Segregation in Ohio Classrooms

Kevin Mahnken
learning loss

Cardona’s Tutoring Charge, 1 Year Later: Some Progress, but Obstacles Remain

Linda Jacobson
National School Choice Week

Seizing on Parents’ Frustration, GOP Govs Push for ‘Education Savings Accounts’

Linda Jacobson
child vaccinations

Child Vaccination Rates, Already Down Because of COVID, Fall Again

Christine Vestal
Senate

Cassidy, New GOP Education Leader, Will Focus on Reading Disabilities

Linda Jacobson
special education

SCOTUS Could Change the Rights of Students with Disabilities to Sue for Damages

Linda Jacobson
st. louis

District-University Partnership Shakes Up St. Louis School Leadership

Marianna McMurdock
Supreme Court

SCOTUS Considers When Students With Disabilities Can Sue for Damages

Linda Jacobson
The Big Picture

Irked by Skyrocketing Costs, Fewer Americans See K-12 as Route to Higher Ed

Greg Toppo
charter schools

After Charter School Battles, Top Ed Official Offers an Olive Branch

Greg Toppo
The Big Picture

New Data: Post-COVID, School Leaders Frustrated in Efforts to Curb Misbehavior

Kevin Mahnken
Union Report

No Matter How You Do the Math, Numbers Don’t Add Up to a School Staffing Crisis

Mike Antonucci
The Big Picture

Arts Education Program Increases School Engagement, Study Finds

Kevin Mahnken
school shootings

6-Year-Old Who Shot Virginia Teacher Among Youngest School Shooters in History

David Riedman
Curriculum

Students in This Tennessee District Are More Literacy-Proficient Post-Pandemic

Kathy Daugherty & Cathy Pressnell
Church and State

OK’s Endorsement of Religious Charter Schools Could Alter Landscape for Choice

Linda Jacobson
ChatGPT

From COVID Recovery to AI Chatbots, Moving Quickly to Reinvent Education in 2023

Robin Lake
Opinion

School Board Openings Are an Opportunity for Equity

Justin McCorkle
Alaska

Legislative Leader Touts Consensus Approach and Outlines Likely Priorities For Alaska Senate

Yereth Rosen
education research

A DARPA for K–12? Omnibus Bill Includes Substantial New Funds for Education R&D

Kevin Mahnken
Senate

‘No Room for Error’: Senate’s 50-50 Political Split Was Bittersweet for Schools

Linda Jacobson
grief education

NJ Lawmakers Launch Push For Grief Education in Schools

Nikita Biryukov
student sleep

How Schools Can Help Overloaded Teens

Lisa L. Lewis
school attendance

School Attendance Problems Are Complex, and Our Solutions Need to be as Well

Jess Whitley & Beth Saggers
Shelter

Key Lessons in Helping Homeless High School Students Graduate

Greg Kim
play club

At This School, Every Day Is Play Day

Sara Gregory
Teacher Retention

Another Symptom of Missouri Teacher Shortage: Growing Number of 4-Day School Weeks

Annelise Hanshaw
best of 2022

Best of 2022: The Year’s Top Stories About Education & America’s Schools

Steve Snyder
student retention

Tennessee’s Third-Grade Retention Law Could Pit Republicans Against Each Other

Sam Stockard
Artificial Intelligence

The Essay’s Future: We Talk to 4 Teachers, 2 Experts and 1 AI Chatbot

Greg Toppo
Cybersecurity

Three Ways Schools Can Fend Off Ransomware Attacks

Barb Dawson & Rocco Grillo
student enrollment

New Hampshire School Enrollment Drops Again, Continuing a 20-Year Decline

Ethan DeWitt
lausd

Taking Care of Her ‘Babies’: How One LAUSD Principal Provides Pandemic Recovery to Vulnerable Kids

Nicholas Dinh
special education

‘You Don’t Get That Time Back’: Parents Seek Special Ed Services Lost to COVID

Linda Jacobson
districts

‘Late-in-the-Game’ COVID Relief Fund Guidance Leaves Some Scratching Their Heads

Linda Jacobson
Los Angeles

‘Heroes to Zeroes’: L.A. School Staff Plans Strike Vote

Linda Jacobson
leadership

Report: Half of Largest School Districts Changed Leaders Since Pandemic

Linda Jacobson
testing

Should Kids Be Allowed to Retake Tests? A Parent’s — and a Teacher’s — View

Alina Adams
The 74 Interview

Former Dallas Supe Hinojosa Speaks Out on COVID Fights & His Political Future

Linda Jacobson
cats

Las Vegas Schools Hire Trappers for 2 Dozen Cats — But Won’t Say Where They Went

Dana Gentry
influenza

More Schools Have Closed in Kentucky This Year Than Rest of U.S. Combined. Why?

Asher Lehrer-Small
LGBTQ Students

‘Political Speech’ in the Classroom: Pride Flags & ‘Safe Space’ Stickers?

Aaron Sanderford
school safety

‘Not Where We’d Like To Be:’ Idaho’s School Safety Assessments Slowed During Pandemic

Kevin Richert
pathway programs

How One High School Turns Career Dreams into Practical Pathways

S. Michele Fry
high school

Measure Would Require State to Study High School Dropout Rate

Sophie Nieto-Munoz
mental health

A ‘New Normal’—National Student Survey Finds Mental Health Top Learning Obstacle

Marianna McMurdock
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