2+ day, 5+ 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....

3+ day, 16+ 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....

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, 4+ day ago   (528+ words) New federal guidance threatens to upend decades of progress in high school transition planning, which helps students with disabilities prepare for college, the workforce, and living independently, advocates and researchers say. In 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Olmstead v. L.C. that states…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (945+ words) The Trump administration is proposing to give itself greater authority to cut off education grants and reduce the size of multiyear awards after its efforts to end in-progress grants have repeatedly run into legal trouble. The U.S. Department of Education issued…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (304+ words) The nation’s education data agency needs major changes to meet rapidly changing information needs, but years of staff and budget cuts have left the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics too unstable to adapt on its own....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (438+ words) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to prohibit schools from using H-1B visas to hire international teachers as part of a broader campaign to “eliminate foreign influence” in education. If approved by state lawmakers, such a ban would eliminate a staffing strategy…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (629+ words) National anti-immigrant rhetoric does not stop at a school’s gates. It enters classrooms through the language students use with one another, shaping who belongs, who feels safe, and who is treated as (fully) American. Yet, many educators, myself included, are…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (818+ words) The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday instructed schools not to take race into account in student discipline policies and said that considering data showing a racially disparate impact of such policies violates federal law. The letter says Title VI of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1617+ words) Head Start programs serving tens of thousands of students nationwide are facing an uncertain future as the federal government indefinitely stalls the competition process for programs seeking new assurances of long-term funding. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services usually…...