2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (826+ words) The federal school choice program that’s launching next year could become one of the nation’s largest sources of K-12 funding, even if just a slice of taxpayers eligible for the federal tax credits the program provides decide to use them....

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (633+ words) A 2,100-acre data center is being built in Frederick County, Md., with one piece of its property sketched out to be about 500 feet from a public elementary school. As data centers become more ubiquitous around the country, there are growing questions…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (602+ words) If a teacher uploads detailed lesson plans to her school’s AI-based curriculum tool, could her work or her students’ data end up training the next model? Often, teachers have no way of knowing. “We can get angrier and angrier, or…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1081+ words) The Trump administration is pressing forward with efforts to relocate U.S. Department of Education staffers, offload agency funding, and scale back the federal role in education—even as it touts a new initiative to help state education agencies measure policy outcomes....

5+ day, 25+ min ago   (434+ words) The Lisbon and Fort Ransom school districts have been collaborating since 1967, 14 years before I was born. Many generations of my family and others that are still around have gone to schools in both districts. Our schools’ and community pride run…...

5+ day, 25+ min ago   (669+ words) When the Fort Ransom school board made the difficult decision to reorganize our small elementary district after many months of discussion, data review, and community conversations, it was not made lightly. We were faced with balancing community identity and tradition…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (739+ words) The U.S. Department of Education has published the latest dataset designed to highlight racial, ethnic, and disability-based disparities in schools, more than eight months after the agency initially said it would release the data. The data collection is the most comprehensive…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1044+ words) The U.S. Department of Education’s research arm has nearly a quarter of its annual budget left to spend with only a month before those funds expire, the department revealed in a court filing last week. These figures emerged as part of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (733+ words) A federal judge this week threw out the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit challenging California policies that allow transgender athletes to compete on school sports teams that match their gender identity. The Justice Department alleged that the California Department of Education and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (366+ words) The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas have formally filed suit against the Kansas City, Kan., public schools over the school district’s guidelines pertaining to its transgender students, the department announced in a Tuesday news release....