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This story was co-published with The Guardian. Police departments across the U.S. are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist President Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by The 74 reveals. Hundreds of thousands of audit logs show police are searching a national…
Most K-12 districts are unprepared to meet federal web accessibility deadlines, with only 14% having completed required digital platform updates. The Department of Justice mandates compliance by April 2026 for counties over 50,000 residents, using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.1, Level AA.
Nearly 44,000 first-generation and low-income students no longer receive assistance with financial aid, tutoring, campus visits or dual-enrollment courses after a national college-access organization lost federal funding last fall. It was the first-ever cancellation of grants for TRIO, a federal program that has helped…
Schools are expanding remote options as ICE activity drives steep absences. Educators warn hybrid classes strain teachers and can cut funding.
Details of the governor's plan to reorganize the Department of Education under the control of an Education Commissioner, whom future governors would appoint, are in a budget trailer bill. The Legislature must approve it to take effect.
School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber.
San Francisco Unified School District educators are striking for the first time since 1979, demanding 10% salary raises and fully funded family health benefits amid a $102 million budget gap for the 2026-27 school year. The strike has closed schools for two consecutive days, affecting the district's 50,000 students.
It was in the quiet of the summer when Jeff Kahlden heard that a promising young student he advised in a rural high school west of Fort Worth, Texas, was in trouble. The boy was left with no place to live after his grandmother, who was raising him, had a stroke. Kahlden was then counseling […]
Staff at Tilden Middle School say they’re frustrated by the Philadelphia school district’s plan to close their school. It’s one of 20 the district wants to shutter.