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Despite having room to serve more children, Middletown day care owner Peggy Fuentes often has to turn away families in desperate need of care. Each of her toddler classrooms has 10 students — the state caps class sizes for that age group at 12 — but to fill the remaining seats, she’d have to hire […]
DANIELSON, Conn. — Inside the carpentry classroom at Harvard H. Ellis Technical High School in eastern Connecticut, three dozen sophomores and juniors are building cabinets and framing walls. Saws buzz, hammers clank and sandpaper scratches. It’s hard to converse without yelling. But Julian Lawrence, 16, doesn’t mind t…
District leaders would not say how much less funding they are steering directly to schools or how many positions might be cut. But they made it clear many school budgets will be tighter, though special education funding will increase.
Los Angeles Unified board member Karla Griego hosted the community event to hear concerns about safety and mental health.
OKLAHOMA CITY — After hours of witness testimony and pages of evidence, a struggling Oklahoma City charter school still has not convinced a state board that it should be allowed to stay open for another year. The Statewide Charter School Board on Monday made the rare vote to terminate the founding charter contract for…
The Senate Education/Higher Education Committee advanced three bills on Wednesday, including one that would fund a work group to examine how North Carolina could implement a weighted student funding model. North Carolina’s current funding model for schools uses a hybrid...
Indiana education officials want more students to consider a career in cybersecurity. Students will soon have a new pathway to get there.
Education leaders applauded increased special education funding, but called for increased funding for English learners and subsidized childcare.
U.S. school districts worry it could get even more expensive to prepare a meal under new federal dietary guidelines, as they also contend with cuts to programs that helped them buy local food.