The policy chips away at a 1982 Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a free K-12 education for immigrant students.
The Education Department is piloting virtual student OMNY cards for some students this year. The move comes after widespread complaints of broken cards and delays for replacements.
The policy chips away at a 1982 Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a free K-12 education for immigrant students.
The $22.9 billion budget also provides increased funding for students from low-income homes and English language learners.
The Supreme Court's recent Callais decision reshaped the legal landscape for using race to draw voting maps, including for school board elections.
Two schools in Pueblo County and one in Colorado Springs were affected by the law change.
The new state budget signed this week includes funding for a program dubbed the School-Based Partnerships for Access and Resilience, or Spark, which will be launched as a pilot program before expanding to all of New Jersey’s schools.
Decatur Central students in Jessica Sandvold’s marketing classes helped rebrand logos across Decatur Township Schools.
A new audit found the district owes $2.8 million in delayed termination payments to former employees.
The new DPSCD calendar does not include an observance of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr, despite calls from the community to do so.
All Colorado districts must now have a policy on student cellphone use.
The Supreme Court said states can bar transgender athletes from women’s and girls' sports. That’s not the end of the story.
Counselors across the state said the loss of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid tracker would potentially quadruple the amount of work needed to help students.
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Memphis schools takeover after officials argued it could delay important decisions on purchases like HVAC repairs.
To wrap up P.S. Weekly’s season, student reporters look back on their hard-hitting journalism during a live-recorded event at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Legislators changed state law this year to make school board races partisan, despite concerns from educators and others.
The Illinois Department of Early Childhood officially launches July 1 after consolidating several state programs under one roof. Secretary Teresa Ramos talks to Chalkbeat about what’s next.
Can Illinois simplify its complex early childhood system? It’s banking on a new department to do so.
The Illinois Department of Early Childhood, an initiative championed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, has finally launched after a multiyear process to create the agency.
Tennessee students showed progress in statewide testing this year, but is the progress sustainable?
The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners accepted previous court precedent to drop dual-circulation objections against 22 candidates for school board. Oral arguments by candidates’ and objectors’ lawyers addressed voter confusion, nonpartisan alignment, and past rulings on the issue.
More than half of states prevent transgender girls and women from playing on school teams that match their lived gender. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that such laws don’t violate the Constitution.
What it means when a Colorado college is labeled a Thriving Institution or a Career Connected Campus
Colorado has revamped its Basic Needs Campus designation and has several others that are meant to hold schools accountable and signal to students that the school is dedicated to providing help.
An internal estimate from a school choice group suggests it could cost $300 or more to persuade each taxpayer to participate — potentially complicating efforts to scale the new tax credit.
Pennsylvania’s state budget will be late again. But a key House Democrat says a major impasse on education is unlikely.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first budget boosts college savings accounts for kindergartners tenfold and restores funding for several education programs that had faced cuts.
All five of the schools added to the list are elementary schools or elementary-middle schools.
A new report signals that the pandemic may not be the only factor driving the problem.
The Michigan Court of Appeals sided with the Michigan Department of Treasury, saying the operating tax can’t be used to pay off remaining debts. The decision makes the passage of DPSCD’s August ballot initiative more critical to the district.
FLAG Award winner Rayhan Ahmed ditches traditional exams for real-world fieldwork, taking his students to Flint, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., to learn the human stories behind climate and environmental issues.
State lawmakers created the noncitizen advisory board as a way for Chicagoans without U.S. citizenship to have a voice since they can’t vote or run in school board elections. The mayor has not yet created the board.
Students who receive services from DPSCD’s 10 Health Hubs had better daily attendance than those who didn’t in 2024-25, according to the district. Navigators are the central piece that make the coordinated health plan model work.
Colorado case documents shed light on how the Trump administration is investigating school districts
“This is a new way of doing business,” a former attorney for the federal Office for Civil Rights said.
At risk is more than $90 million in federal funding for Jeffco’s 74,000 students, the district said.
The $8.9 million New Visions portal helps schools track attendance, graduation progress, and support homeless students. Educators and lawmakers say cutting it could undermine services that Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to expand.
The state takeover board can pull from two pots of money to reform Memphis schools. It's unclear how and for what those funds can be used.
Two of the five races for IPS school board have four candidates each. In District 3, candidates include the IPS board president and an influential charter school advocate.
In a four-page missive, Marrero detailed several concerns, including that the board is getting too involved in administrative matters.
Bultman will serve on the board until January, when an elected District 4 member will be sworn in. Both finalists for the appointed position said they are running in November.
The IPS board said yes to Cold Spring School’s request to be a charter school and stay in the IPS Innovation Network. It also approved two new innovation schools for one year.
Top Education Department officials told Chalkbeat that a sweeping reorganization is like a pilot program to show Congress students will do better without a dedicated federal agency.
Under New York regulations, parents who receive the vouchers through a popular state-funded program are only supposed to get the benefit for hours when they're working or in school.
Trump administration pushback and delays mark the first year of Chicago’s Black Student Success Plan
Chicago Public Schools has moved cautiously on the initiative, which came under intense scrutiny by the Trump administration.
The Chicago Board of Education adopted the agenda about a month after state lawmakers adjourned for the summer. The agenda includes asks for more state funding and a millionaire’s tax.