Ali Chandra never intended to become a political warrior. Before 2016, she wasn't even registered to vote. The New Jersey mother of two didn't have time for politics, she says, because she was too busy taking care of sick kids…
General Motors CEO Mary Barra is on a mission to get more girls to pursue careers in technology and engineering. Barra announced that GM will pledge $850,000 to four nonprofits — Code.org, Black Girls Code, Institute of Play and Digital Promise — for programs that encourage young women and…
The Assiniboine and Sioux tribes in northeastern Montana “are asking the federal government to investigate what they say is systemic racism and discrimination in a public school district” on their Fort Peck Indian Reservation. In a complaint filed Wednesday with…
Civil rights organizations and some members of Congress are troubled by the Trump administration’s rollback of civil rights enforcement generally, but they are particularly worried by what is going on at the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The office has…
One of New Mexico’s biggest school districts is mulling scrapping the letter grade “D” to raise graduation standards amid similar changes in other school districts across the country. According to a plan under consideration by the board of Santa Fe…
Ten Colorado lawmakers, many with longstanding ties to the education cocommunity, are set to begin debating the future of Colorado’s school finance system. The legislative group tasked with studying and making recommendations about how the state pays for public education includes…
Study after national study says the same thing: There is a marked lack of diversity in America’s teacher workforce.The same holds true in the Walla Walla Valley. Most educators working here are white and don’t mirror the growing numbers of…
This fall, five South Carolina high schools will offer an aerospace curriculum to develop the next generation of aviation technology talent in a state where officials say the industry is thriving. South Carolina's department of education will award these high schools $50,000…
A bill to reauthorize the federal career and technical education law is so popular that it recently got unanimous approval from House lawmakers. Is there any other big K-12 bill that will get the same kind of love? Don't bet…
Two Supreme Court cases decided this week could have major implications for school choice across the United States, as they could make it possible for some states to put funding toward scholarships at private, religious schools. One ruling vacated a lower court decision that…
Schools across the country are watching as some New Hampshire schools start relying less on standardized testing and more on performance-based assessments.
For the better part of a century — roughly as long as the concept of the teenager has existed — parents and educators have agonized over how to reach adolescents. Stereotyped as indifferent to schoolwork and alienated at home, they…
The ACLU of Iowa and six Iowa attorneys filed documents last week demanding changes in the state rules for how Iowa public schools use physical restraints and seclude students. The "petition for rulemaking" comes less than one month after the…
An ambitious goal to improve Nevada students’ performance on a college readiness test might take a little longer to get moving. For the third consecutive year, the average ACT score of more than 34,000 students in the state — the…
Senate Democrats said they were "alarmed" about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' enforcement of civil rights laws aimed at protecting students in a letter on Tuesday. "We are extraordinarily disappointed and alarmed by recent actions you and your staff have taken…
