The Signal in Education News
Sonja Shaw and Richard Barrera are the top two candidates in the state superintendent of public instruction primary, with Steve Hilton and Xavier Becerra leading the governor's race.
Public school classrooms are required to post the Ten Commandments, Bible verses are being injected into social studies curriculums and some school districts are required to allow students to leave campus midday to participate in Bible study.
Angry at school closings, Councilmember Isaiah Thomas wants hearings to explore whether Philadelphia should hold school board elections instead of having the mayor pick members.
Newark’s charter schools added 200 students this school year but that growth is a fraction of the sector's annual growth since 2019.
Denver Public Schools hired Sito Narcisse as an interim administrator just a couple months after he wasn’t selected by the Chicago Public Schools board as CEO.
More than 500 students at two ASPIRA charter network high schools in Chicago were forced to transfer in March. More than 70 of the seniors graduated last week from Schurz High School.
P.S. Weekly’s latest episode explores the systemic failures and emotional toll of a school bus system riddled by constant delays and no-shows that force students to miss school.
Letting students decide how they learn is almost as important a goal of Mayfield High School near Cleveland as learning itself. The school lets students skip traditional classrooms and lectures if they don’t fit how a student learns best. They can work independently at their own pace, earning credit based on what they…
As K–12 school districts explore tools such as Microsoft Copilot and artificial intelligence-driven insights — along with new, AI-enabled experiences emerging on Copilot+ PCs — something is becoming increasingly clear: AI success does not start with the tool; it starts with the data. According to Pari Dalal, senior par…