The FCC has opened a review of E-Rate, the 1990s program that gives schools and libraries discounted internet, citing a goal of limiting student screen time. Educators, especially in rural districts with one provider, are bracing for the funding to shrink.
Mary Johnson
The new state budget quietly rewrote how North Carolina licenses teachers: no more admissions tests for teacher-prep programs, more time for new teachers to pass exams, and an easier path for out-of-state hires. Here is what each change actually does.
Mary Johnson
The four-day week is spreading fast across the rural West, and its appeal is real: teacher recruitment, morale, and a day off families cherish. But the cost savings are modest and the achievement research leans slightly negative. Here is what the evidence actually says.
Arthur Chen
Lehman Catholic High School in Sidney, Ohio is dropping Mondays, citing teacher burnout and a chance for students to do college prep, tutoring, and real work experience. Here is what the school said, and how it fits a fast-growing trend.
Mary Johnson
Lincoln is the single most common school namesake in the country, on 240 public schools. When you count schools by who or what they are named for, dead presidents and plain geography dominate.
Kate Carter
In one of the first federal K-12 admissions settlements under the Trump administration, the Justice Department has forced Jersey City to scrap the racial-quota system at Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, a top-ranked New Jersey magnet school.
Mary Johnson
Under a new Indiana law, a school must earn an 'A' on the state's accountability scale, among other requirements, before it can apply to run a four-day week. The state's only four-day school is a high-poverty elementary that has never earned one.
Mary Johnson
A 9 out of 10 or a clean A feels like a verdict on a school's quality. In practice, most ratings built on raw proficiency track family income more than anything a school does. Here is what the big ratings actually measure, and the three numbers to read together instead.
Arthur Chen
Authorities say a homemade device that court records call a plasma cannon was used to burn a bush and damage a door at Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro before a group broke in. Two 18-year-olds face felony charges; a juvenile was released to a parent.
Mary Johnson
The research on food and school performance is real, but it is not what most parents expect. The strongest evidence is about hunger and breakfast, not superfoods. Here is what the studies actually show, and where the claims get thin.
Arthur Chen
Gwinnett County Public Schools ranks 14th of the 89 US districts enrolling at least 50,000 students by diversity index, and no racial group comes close to a majority. But the diversity is uneven school to school, and neighboring Cobb County ranks slightly higher.
Kate Carter
New Jersey's 2027 budget sends districts a record $12.4 billion in state aid, but leaders say it will not cover soaring health-insurance premiums and other rising costs. Many are again facing staff and program cuts weeks before school starts.
Mary Johnson
The cost of covering employee healthcare has risen astronomically for Georgia school systems over 16 years, from about $2,000 per worker a year in 2010 to more than $23,000 now. Districts say it is forcing tradeoffs that reach students.
Mary Johnson
One school per state, the biggest comprehensive public high school by enrollment, from Brooklyn Tech's 5,848 students down to Vermont's 1,251. The pattern tracks population growth almost perfectly: Sunbelt and large-suburban states produce 4,000-plus flagships, while rural states top out near 2,000.
Kate Carter
Utah has revoked the license of Provo Canyon School's Springville facility, a residential treatment facility where Paris Hilton has said she was abused as a teenager, saying it failed to provide adequate health and safety services. All services must end by Aug. 6.
Mary Johnson
A Katy ISD residency check drew scrutiny after a district official and a police officer entered a family's home and a child's bedroom while the boy was home alone. The district calls it routine; the mother says she was never notified.
Mary Johnson
Texas advertised up to $30,000 a year in private-school vouchers for students with disabilities. State records show that out of about 28,700 approved students, fewer than 25 got the full amount, and most were awarded less than $20,000.
Mary Johnson
During the pandemic, the federal government made school meals free for every student. That waiver expired in 2022. Since then, nine states have passed their own permanent programs to feed all public school students at no charge, regardless of family income.
Kate Carter
Under a new state law, Maryland's 24 school districts must adopt classroom AI policies by this fall, guided by recommendations the state education department just released. Some districts are already piloting tools.
Mary Johnson
If you are house-hunting around Chicago and trying to read the schools before you sign anything, here is the honest version. Illinois's strongest districts cluster in the affluent suburbs northwest and west of the city, and the gap between them and the big urban districts is real. Here is the ranking, by test scores, with the district-type traps spelled out.
Mary Johnson
