The Signal in Education News
The Michigan Legislature on Friday morning approved a $22.9 billion education budget for the 2026-27 school year that provides additional funding for all students, and even more for students from low-income homes and English language learners.
Before Michaella Huck graduated from high school in 2018, she struggled with depression and anxiety and didn’t know where to get help. She’d hear stories of students who died on “suicide hill” in her Los Angeles neighborhood of San Pedro. It took a trusted adult for her to realize how educators could help save a […]
Philadelphia’s city controller found several “deficiencies” in its audit of the school district, including delayed payments to ex-employees and missing equipment.
Advocates for students with disabilities have been fighting the move for over a year, hoping overwhelming opposition might stop the Trump administration’s plans to move key oversight out of the U.S. Department of Education.
The modern education system was built for an economy that rewarded more schooling. AI is forcing students and schools to prepare for a murkier future.
School districts must provide language support services to students, but implementation looks different from district to district, with no real way to track their impact on pre-K multilingual learners.
NEST Chile report describes a study that examined how Chile’s education system is—and is not—creating conditions for broad skills development, drawing on evidence from five public schools across the country’s macro-zones.
At least 135 public schools have closed or have been approved to close all across Texas since late 2023, as districts face budget crises amid state funding shortfalls.
Alaska saw an unprecedented wave of school closures this year. District officials grappling with severe budget shortfalls have opted to close 12 elementary and middle schools across the state — in Anchorage, Wasilla, Sutton, Seward, Sterling, Soldotna, Kasilof and Ketchikan. With those closures, hundreds of students an…