A pilot program to begin experimenting with pre-K education in Idaho schools is gaining support, with bipartisan sponsorship and an array of groups, from Idaho Business for Education, to Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney, to the United Way, the YMCA…
Addressing a common criticism of New York City charter schools, a study released on Thursday said that in general their students were not, in fact, more likely to transfer out than their counterparts in traditional public schools. But the study, conducted by the city’s…
The New Orleans Recovery school district, the New York City school system, and the Orleans Parish school system top the list of the friendliest environments for school choice and competition, according to the latest report measuring those factors by the Brown Center…
One of the biggest changes to higher education in recent years has been the evolving profile of the average college student. While that student was once full-time, young and financially dependent on loans or other support, today he or she…
As President Obama advocates for a dramatic expansion of publicly funded preschool, there is growing debate about whether preschool pays off academically for kids. Most controversial is the so-called “fade-out” effect that has surfaced in research, showing that students who attend preschool…
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor vowed Wednesday to protect and promote school choice programs and attacked Democratic politicians, including New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, for seeking to block the growth of charter schools and voucher programs.
Ask first-year teachers what their greatest challenge is, and they are likely to say it has been managing squirming elementary students or keeping sleepy teenagers engaged. But too few universities that train the next generation of teachers are giving them a…
The Obama administration is issuing new recommendations on classroom discipline that seek to end the apparent disparities in how students of different races are punished for violating school rules.
Lawyers for Gov. Bobby Jindal are asking a federal judge to end a 1976 landmark Louisiana case prohibiting public aid to all-white private schools, which would in effect return control of private school funding to the state. The request comes in the…
Louisiana's top education board is being asked to consider changes to Louisiana's complex formula for divvying up money to public schools and to steer new money to technical training courses and special education. A task force looking at the formula, which…
In recent years Kansas has become the epicenter of a new battle over the states’ obligation to adequately fund public education. Even though the state Constitution requires that it make “suitable provision” for financing public education, Gov. Sam Brownback and…
Democrats in the state Senate want to use an upcoming jump in education funding to make transitional kindergarten available to every 4-year-old in California. The proposed investment in early childhood education, which would total nearly $1 billion a year once the…
The Boise and Meridian school districts could get about $7 million more next school year if the Legislature goes for Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s budget proposal. Otter on Monday proposed restoring $35 million of the money Idaho public schools lost in…
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the state Department of Education, concluding that it adequately complied with an agreement that called for intellectually disabled students to spend more time with their non-disabled peers. The 2nd Circuit U.S. Court…
National advocacy groups powered by the Koch brothers and other conservative megadonors have found a new cause ripe with political promise: the fight to bring down the Common Core academic standards. The groups are stoking populist anger over the standards —…
The first intensive federal monitoring of No Child Left Behind Act waivers shows states struggling to intervene in schools with the biggest achievement gaps, to ensure that the worst schools implement the right improvement strategies, and to help English-learners adjust…
