The state now has 21 virtual charter academies as education officials debate funding incentives and how to measure school performance.
Nearly 70 percent of traditional districts reported declines amid family self-deportations and lingering immigration fears, a trend that could affect funding and student support.
Intensive instruction and test retakes helped thousands of students improve and move on to fourth grade.
Soil testing shows dozens of city parks expose children to hazardous lead levels years after officials pledged to fix the problem.
A new federal survey finds roughly a 20 percent difference in school readiness between children from the poorest and wealthiest families.
With a multibillion-dollar deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget leaves tens of thousands of promised subsidized slots unfunded, keeping families on waitlists for years.
Nebraska becomes the 12th state to bar diversion of federal survivor benefits toward foster-care costs.
Kansas flex-plexes and Indiana microcenters are turning underused spaces into multiprovider childcare facilities.
New federal guidance calls for reducing the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 down to 11. At least 17 states have announced they’ll disregard it.
Soaring costs are pushing parents out of the workforce and draining productivity from local employers.
The president cites fraud concerns, while state officials call the plan politically motivated and warn of impacts on social services.
The city plans to provide $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 a month after birth as part of an effort to reduce infant mortality and child poverty.
Applied behavior analysis has become one of Medicaid’s fastest-growing costs, prompting cuts that families say threaten progress.
Universal access to transitional kindergarten in Los Angeles County coincided with more than 150 pre-K centers shutting their doors.
By paying and training preschool staff through a voter-approved real estate tax, the city aims to stabilize a workforce and expand access to child care.
States are reducing subsidy slots, slashing provider reimbursement rates and raising co-pays for low-income parents amid shrinking federal aid.
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