County officials found LAUSD's financial plan can't cover its future cash obligations, triggering a 45-day deadline to fix it. Layoffs, furloughs and school consolidation are all on the table. The district has lost a third of its students since 2017.
Mary Johnson
Girls outnumber boys about two to one in the top tenth of American high school GPAs, and boys outnumber girls by the same margin at the bottom. That much is measured and consistent. The popular explanation, that boys' brains need different classrooms, is the part eight researchers called pseudoscience in the journal Science.
Arthur Chen
Millburn High School posted a 1,391 SAT average, the best of any New Jersey high school that takes all comers. The six schools ahead of it all choose their students. And the top regular-admission schools share a demographic pattern the state data doesn't mention.
Kate Carter
Los Angeles Unified is the biggest single school district in the country at 402,549 students, but the picture shifts fast from there. Here is the largest district in all 50 states from NCES SY 2024-25 data, plus why New York's number needs a caveat.
Kate Carter
Hardin County Schools says students were using metal bottles as weapons, causing concussions and hospital trips. The ban starts with classes on Aug. 6, and Hardin is far from the first district to do this.
Mary Johnson
The Puerto Rico Department of Education runs 856 schools, more than any other public system in the country, and it enrolls fewer students than Los Angeles Unified while doing it. Counting buildings gives you a different top 20 than counting students, and here's what the gap between the two tells you about how a district is put together.
Kate Carter
Lancaster Country Day School wants a lawsuit thrown out. Two students pleaded guilty to 59 felony counts. The school's defense rests on a gap in Pennsylvania law that lawmakers have been trying to close ever since.
Mary Johnson
North Carolina rewrote four of its teacher licensure rules in the July 2026 state budget, including the test scores once required just to get into a teacher prep program. Here's what you actually need to teach in NC public schools now: the degree, the program, the exams, and which license you hold along the way.
Mary Johnson
High schoolers from all 50 states spent a weekend in a replica Senate chamber in Boston and passed the Students First Act. A superintendents group is now sending it to 10,000 school leaders who are writing their own AI rules with no federal guidance.
Mary Johnson
Cypress Bay High School in Weston enrolls 4,579 students, more than any other public high school in Florida. An allk12 analysis of federal enrollment data for 2024-25 ranks the 20 largest, and eight of the state's 67 county districts account for all of them. Orange County alone has six in the top 15.
Kate Carter
Most states make a child turn 5 between August 1 and September 30 to start kindergarten that fall, but the range runs from July 1 in West Virginia to January 1 in Vermont. Here's every state's cutoff, whether kindergarten is required, and how early-entry waivers work.
Mary Johnson
Salamanca put its humanoid robot pilot on hold while it works out student data privacy agreements with the state. The superintendent says Sally was never going to teach. The state commissioner points out a board presentation called it a tutoring platform.
Mary Johnson
In Fremont Unified, more than two-thirds of the 33,073 students are Asian American. It leads a list of large districts concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Seattle eastside, a handful of booming immigrant suburbs, and Queens.
Kate Carter
Florida, Georgia and Colorado schools are installing teacher-activated drones that can smash windows, spray pepper gel, and ram an attacker at 60 mph. They have never been used in a real shooting.
Mary Johnson
Assume that in ten to twenty years an AI explains any K-12 concept better than the average adult in the room. The job of teacher still is not the same thing as the task of instruction. What holds an adult in that room is legal, custodial and economic, not technical.
Arthur Chen
Thirteen elementary schools and seven middle schools went back Tuesday, two weeks ahead of the rest of Dallas ISD. The extra days come with state funding attached, and they run in the opposite direction from districts cutting to four-day weeks.
Mary Johnson
Six-year-old John Medina has been disciplined 33 times since 2023, including 14 suspensions. His parents say Fayette County keeps punishing behavior tied to his autism instead of following the plan meant to prevent it.
Mary Johnson
A Richland County jury found the district grossly negligent after a ninth grader collapsed at a June football practice and spent 10 days in a medically induced coma. The details of what the school allegedly skipped are the part every football parent should read.
Mary Johnson
While national public school enrollment is falling, a short list of districts is doing the opposite. Prosper ISD north of Dallas grew from 12,133 students to 31,651 in seven years. Almost every district on the list is either a Texas exurb or a statewide charter network.
Kate Carter
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
