Allred had fixes for every crisis but one: How to keep the district from closing her school.

“My own son came home and said, ‘Are you gonna have a job?'” Allred said of the day news broke that the Cedar Rapids Community School District in eastern Iowa is considering closing up to six elementary schools in a dramatic effort to cut costs.

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The Trump administration has argued the “privilege” has been too freely applied to children of non-citizens. “Hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship, and it wasn’t meant for that reason,” President Trump said last year.

If this constitutionally protected right is struck down by the court, it would apply to children born on or after Feb. 20, 2025. According to a projection by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute and Penn State, that could result in about 255,000 U.S.-born children beginning life without U.S. citizenship every year. By 2045, that could add up to 4.8 million children.

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In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a piece of paper and fills up a whole line to spell the word that describes a type of lung disease. The word allows her to practice cursive—her new favorite method of writing.

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“That is the very first time he made it up, I am so impressed,” his mom, Melissa, says.

Back on the mats, Melissa’s son shakes off the nerves of his new feat.

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One of those states is Kentucky, where all public school classes must now be cellphone free. Districts can set their own policies to achieve that goal. Some collect phones at the start of each class; others allow students to have them only during their lunch period.

The Jefferson County school district, which includes Louisville, set a “bell-to-bell” policy, opting to keep students phone free from the moment they walk in the building until they leave at the end of the day.

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“When you think about the guidelines, there’s so many different pieces that you have to meet. You have to meet calorie minimums and maximums for the day and for the week. You have to meet vegetable subgroup categories.”

This diagram shows foods arranged in the shape of an inverted pyramid. The top-right corner is labeled “Vegetables & Fruits” and shows foods such as carrots, a pear and a bag of frozen peas. The top-left corner is labeled “Protein, Dairy & Healthy Fats” and shows foods such as a cheese wedge, a steak, a carton of whole milk and a slice of salmon. The bottom corner is labeled “Whole Grains” and shows grains of oatmeal, a bowl of porridge and a loaf of bread.

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The report, from the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office, focuses on the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which investigates complaints of discrimination in schools based on students’ sex, race, national origin, disability and more.

In March, the administration attempted to fire more than half of OCR’s civil rights attorneys and staff. At the time, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the cuts reflected the department’s commitment to “efficiency” and “accountability.”

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Each class begins with several minutes of journaling in notebooks, and nearly all assignments must be handwritten and physically turned in.

“If you walk into almost any one of my classes today, you will see that all of my students are handwriting,” Bond says, “and they are journaling, and they are constantly and consistently doing everything with a pen or a pencil.”

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The sweeping study includes focus groups and interviews with K12 students, parents, educators and tech experts in 50 countries, as well as a literature review of hundreds of research articles. It found that using AI in education can “undermine children’s foundational development” and that “the damages it has already caused are daunting,” though “fixable.”

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has
Because generative AI is still young—ChatGPT was released just over three years ago—the report’s authors dubbed their review a “premortem” intended to study AI’s potential in the classroom without a postmortem’s benefits of time, long-term data or hindsight.

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But when it comes to the fight over public education, some of the most significant dustups are happening on the local level, with school boards around the country.

Today, we’re looking at one of those fights, which played out in a rapidly changing suburb of Dallas called Southlake.

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