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California K-12 schools experienced the largest decline in enrollment since 2021-22 due to declining birth rates and immigration losses, resulting in budget deficits, staff layoffs and program cuts.
The Education Department plans to dissolve the office that supports the country’s 5 million English learners. The move comes as the Trump administration has called to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and to stop funding English language acquisition programs in the federal budget. The country’s English learner…
Mayor Cherelle Parker has championed a rideshare tax that officials say would save 340 staff positions. Schools in West and Southwest Philadelphia would be particularly affected.
In 2024, Mama Freda’s Tiny Tots Child Care opened as Grow Early Learning’s first in-home child care program in North Carolina. The licensed family child care home (FCCH) in Kings Mountain is one of four of its kind across three states that the nonprofit, formerly known as East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, has open…
In 2018 and 2019, thousands of teachers from the mountains to the coast came to Raleigh to call for higher pay and increased financial support for schools. Organized by the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), educators dressed in red...
Leaders of AEFP discuss the state of education policy research and the future of the Institute of Education Sciences.
Steve Hanf has taught journalism for 11 years at First Flight High School in Dare County — following five years of teaching in Winston-Salem and a long journalism career. He’s also the school’s newspaper and yearbook adviser. When he can,...
A West Virginia transgender girl who competes on her high school girls' track team says she's focused on having fun with her friends.
From approaching change as a grieving process to building in time for training, two district technology pros share strategies at CoSN’s annual conference.