Interim CPS CEO Macqueline King adjusted the district's deficit last week to $734 million, $200 million more than her predecessor Pedro Maritnez estimated. It means deeper cuts or more borrowing for the nation's fourth-largest school system, one already facing financial trouble and staff shortages.
Des Moines Public Schools is exploring signature schools based on student and parent interest. Survey results showed top preferences in STEM, career and technical education, medical/health sciences, arts and Montessori.
The Trump administration is signaling it wants to ditch federal desegregation efforts in public school systems, a move that would end much-debated, decades-old programs mainly aimed at improving education opportunities for nonwhite students.
The Supreme Court is weighing an Oklahoma case on whether to allow public funding of religious charter schools. It's just one part of a new wave of initiatives by Christian groups to put more religion into public education.
Federal K12 school funding averaged $360 per person in 2023, but it's at risk as the Trump administration ties funding to anti-DEI policies and aims to abolish the Education Department. Lawsuits are already challenging the move.
A state fund intended to cover summer unemployment benefits for Minnesota school support staff is nearly depleted. School districts are now requesting tens of millions in additional funding, highlighting broader financial strain on both schools and the state budget.
Districts must now notify parents of "substantial changes" to their child's health and well-being, including "any request by a student to identify as a gender that does not align with the student's biological sex."
President Trump's plan to dismantle the Department of Education could have a greater financial impact on red states, as they relied on federal funding for 17% of education spending in 2021-22, compared to 11% in blue states.
A record share of American high schoolers graduated on time in 2022, yet some states lag, according to a report from the GRAD Partnership, a group of nine education organizations. Why it matters: The impact of COVID-19 on education is still playing out, but the long-term picture is a big success.
In its political platform adopted earlier this month, the Republican Party pledged to implement universal school choice, boost parental rights and promote "patriotic" standards for civics education.
Thursday was the last day of school at San Antonio Independent School District. For more than 3,000 students at 13 campuses, it was their last day together before they transition elsewhere in the fall.
Parents locked into strict school boundaries and forced to send their children to subpar schools have developed clandestine networks to circumvent what they view as "unfair" local laws to get them into better ones.
Iowa's new education savings account (ESA) program is influencing private schools to raise tuition rates, according to a new working paper published by Brown University.
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