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The Democratic governor says he’s waiting for federal rules before deciding whether Pennsylvania will join the new tax-credit scholarship program backed by the Trump administration.
With just months until they have to meet a July 1 deadline to raise teacher salaries to a $60,000 minimum, only about half of Maryland’s 24 school districts have reached the threshold and the rest are scrambling to get there, education officials said Monday. “We got questions from the LEA [local education agencies] lik…
This practice is banned or extremely limited in 21 states. The 50 school districts maintain 194 registered seclusion rooms across 100 school buildings across the state, according to the records.
Measles surged in South Carolina after the winter holidays, when health officials couldn't warn exposed students to quarantine. Outbreak investigators have a new spring break plan.
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the school district will coordinate the effort to keep teens charged with serious crimes in school and provide 20 hours of therapy, mentoring, tutoring, and other support each week.
It was Halloween last year when an Illinois Head Start director and a few of her team members headed out to the local high school to patrol the area at dismissal. They stuck around the neighborhood well into the evening, worried kids out trick-or-treating would be harassed by federal immigration agents. That afternoon,…
North Carolina public schools received $12.75 billion in state funding and $1.1 billion in federal funding during the 2025-26 school year — excluding child nutrition and the last of federal relief funds — according to the Department of Public Instruction’s...
Applications for Arkansas’ school voucher program are now open, the state’s education department announced Tuesday. This marks the fourth year of the program and the second year it’s been open to all Arkansas K-12 students after being phased in with increasing eligibility. Created under an expansive 2023 education law,…
Gov. Josh Shapiro and Mayor Cherelle Parker are seeking more funding for Philadelphia public schools. But their plans won’t go far enough to plug the budget hole.