Education savings account programs are encountering some legislative and judicial setbacks. Policymakers should work to keep these programs from being chipped away.
To combat the “summer slide,” a network of about 600 community partners created a robust summer environment throughout the Dallas area to help improve students’ academic and social-emotional development.
The $24.3 billion school budget, which largely invests in the state’s K-12 schools, will include $90.9 million for a state-funded preschool program, $140 million in one-time grant funding for literacy instruction and $204.5 million for at-risk students.
The state will devote nearly $150 million to overhauling the state’s reading and writing instruction to improve poor reading test scores. Advocates believe it to be a long-term commitment to students.
Nationally, nearly 900 unique titles had been targeted for bans during the first half of the 2022-2023 school year. Most bans target stories by and about people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals, but some include books on history and art.
This year, at least 10 states have implemented or expanded programs for vouchers and other state private education subsidies. There are currently voucher and similar programs in 32 states and the District of Columbia.
A letter from state Superintendent Tony Sanders alleges that the district violates a variety of state laws, ranging from untrained staff restraining students unnecessarily to failure to notify parents and the State Board of Education of incidents.
Three years after the Denver Public Schools’ Board of Education voted unanimously to phase out school resource officers, some board members are now ready to reverse the policy as gun violence among teens in the area rises.
More than one-third of preschoolers with disabilities went the entirety of last year without receiving at least one mandated service. Experts predict the shortfall is actually worse than the data reports.
The business community is rallying around civic education. It’s partly a matter of civic duty and partly a matter of survival — and maybe economic prosperity.
An Indiana law establishing a middle school civic education requirement is the latest step in a multisector partnership that aims to help students get a better idea of what democracy is all about.
Disjointed data systems are failing to identify and address disparities along the pre-K-to-work continuum. Two states are leading the way in building effective systems, and a new resource can help governments use data to inform student success strategies.
Turnover is increasing and gender gaps are barely budging, but accurately assessing the consequences remains a challenge.
During the last legislative session, state lawmakers passed a measure that will require all school systems to adopt teaching materials that emphasize phonics, but critics worry that politicians are making laws about topics they know little about.
The state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color.
Children with disabilities are central to a fierce debate in the state legislature over any school voucher program. Roughly 13 percent of Texas public school students receive special education services.
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