A new NBC News poll finds 56% think a school that prohibits AI prepares students better, up nine points since June 2025. The same survey finds only 31% say no AI use is acceptable on schoolwork. Both numbers are real, and the space between them is where district policy has to live.
Arthur Chen
Most people know Title IX as the reason girls' teams exist. In a K-12 building it also reaches harassment, pregnancy, dress codes, and retaliation, and it requires your district to name a coordinator and publish a grievance procedure. Almost no parent knows who that coordinator is.
Mary Johnson
One in ten public school students carries the English learner label, and most families first encounter it through a form they filled out at registration. The classification is not a judgment about intelligence or immigration status. It is a legal trigger for services the school must provide, and a status you can contest.
Arthur Chen
In more than half the states, a third grader who fails the reading test can be held back whether or not the parents agree. The research on whether that works is more interesting than either side of the argument admits: the gains are real, and they mostly fade.
Kate Carter
Uniforms are one of the most confidently debated policies in American schooling and one of the least settled by evidence. Studies find little effect on achievement, modest and inconsistent effects on attendance and behavior, and one finding that surprised researchers.
Arthur Chen
House Bill 959 requires every North Carolina public and charter school to bar phone use during instructional time. An Asheville charter school that adopted the same rule two years early says parents report happier, more talkative kids, and that a few students are gaming the system with decoy phones.
Kate Carter
Rob Burnside let a homeless student keep attending Lakota East High School after the district said he had to withdraw, then took him into his home. It ended a 31-year career. It also points at a federal law most families have never heard of.
Mary Johnson
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
