Salamanca High School will be the first US school to deploy a humanoid robot and AI teaching assistant. Teachers want a pause, the state has raised privacy concerns, and Seneca residents say a school where roughly a third of students are Native American should not be the test site.
Mary Johnson
Charter schools cluster where state law invites them and vanish where it doesn't. Our count of every active public school in the NCES data shows California with the most charters, Washington, D.C. running more than half its schools as charters, and six states with none at all.
Mary Johnson
Chattooga County is one of only a handful of Georgia districts on a four-day school week. The free Mondays are real, but so is the trade-off: the district runs 38 weeks instead of 36 and started school unusually early to fit the required instructional days in.
Mary Johnson
A Florida valedictorian graduated with a weighted GPA of 11.99, far above the supposed 4.0 ceiling. Here is how weighted and unweighted GPA actually work, why a number can climb into double digits, and why colleges recalculate it anyway.
Mary Johnson
Jeannie Norris ran Miss Hall's School for 16 years. Prosecutors now say she knew about a teacher's inappropriate relationships with students and failed to act. The rare part is not the abuse charges against the teacher. It is that the head of school is charged too.
Mary Johnson
California and Texas each enroll about 5.5 million public school students, and together they account for roughly a fifth of the national total. Here is the full brick-and-mortar count for all 50 states plus DC, ranked.
Kate Carter
A janitor at Daisy Elementary School in Hamilton County, Tennessee has been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor after investigators say he created digitally altered abuse images of school staff and students. Here is what authorities have said, and how the district and its contractor responded.
Mary Johnson
Minnesota's third-largest district is facing mounting criticism over weak financial controls after multimillion-dollar deficits, years of budgeting errors, and a $5 million IRS penalty. A newly unredacted report adds detail. Here is what happened, and the enrollment squeeze underneath it.
Mary Johnson
The smallest genuine public schools in the country serve two or three children, taught in a single room, often a long drive or a boat ride from anywhere else. Montana's remote schoolhouses and Maine's island schools lead the list.
Mary Johnson
Alpha School, a billionaire-backed private chain that runs on two hours of AI learning a day and has no certified teachers, is opening in Oklahoma City and Tulsa this August. Tuition is $40,000, nearly double the priciest private school in the state. Here is how it works and why critics are alarmed.
Mary Johnson
We ranked every public high school in Georgia by its state-test proficiency. A Gwinnett magnet tops the list at 99.6%, but the more interesting story is what sits behind it: a wall of North Atlanta suburbs, and a handful of standouts far outside the metro.
Kate Carter
School closures have jumped 35% in four years, and the reason is not mainly budgets. It is bodies. Our own enrollment data shows the districts now closing schools, from Houston to Broward, have each lost 9% to 17% of their students since 2017-18.
Kate Carter
By diversity index, Hawaii's statewide system is the most diverse large school district in the country, followed by a cluster of Washington, D.C. suburbs. Here is the national ranking of districts enrolling at least 50,000 students.
Arthur Chen
A new Common Sense Media report says Google's AI-powered Search is an 'unacceptable risk' for students, and here is the catch that makes it a headache for schools: you cannot disable the AI without disabling Google Search entirely. That means a kid can hit AI Mode just by doing homework.
Mary Johnson
US public-school enrollment fell about 2.9 percent between 2017-18 and 2024-25, a loss of roughly 1.45 million students. But the national number hides a sharp regional split, with the Northeast and coastal West shrinking while the Sun Belt and Mountain West grow.
Arthur Chen
The Warwick School District has scheduled an August 5 hearing on whether to dismiss Bonfield Elementary principal Amy Balsbaugh, who it says left the school's facility dog, Callie, in a hot car on school grounds. Here is what the district alleges and what happens next.
Mary Johnson
North Carolina released its 2025 school report cards. ACT scores jumped 13% and more students took AP courses, but the letter grades tell a harder story: more schools landed a D or F than an A or B. Here is the statewide breakdown, plus a look at the Triad.
Mary Johnson
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating DeKalb County, Richmond County, and Savannah-Chatham County over whether they let employees accused of sexual misconduct quietly move to new jobs, a practice known as 'passing the trash.' All three districts say they follow the law.
Mary Johnson
Los Angeles Unified enrolls 402,549 students, the largest school district in the 50 states. Here are the 25 biggest US districts by enrollment, why New York City is missing, and why Florida counties dominate the list.
Kate Carter
Two Lake County charter school principals were arrested on DUI charges hours apart on the Fourth of July, both tied to the same white Jeep. Bodycam video shows the second principal was pulled over again around 5 a.m., after being sent home earlier.
Mary Johnson
