The state comptroller's office released its first public school construction survey today, which measured costs for Texas schools that opened between 2007 and 2013. Data shows that Dallas-Fort Worth is the Texas metro area with the most expensive schools, second…
The Indiana Department of Education submitted its plans today to correct a series of shortcomings that jeopardize the state's waiver from strict federal education requirements. If federal officials pull Indiana's waiver, school operators would lose flexibility in how to spend…
When U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave more than 40 states and the District of Columbia the flexibility from many of the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, he had an inherent trade-off in mind: States would…
The burning education issue facing most states at the moment is which tests should they give their K-12 students next year to satisfy the conditions of their waivers from the United States Department of Education (USED) or the commitments they…
Changing course on Common Core would cost Louisiana an additional $25.2 million over five years, according to documents that state Education Superintendent John White released Monday. His disclosure came in response to a request from Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration, as…
People from Connecticut, across the U.S. and around the world have donated more than $28 million to charities in the wake of the deadly 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, according to a report released Tuesday.
While schools' access to technology continues to increase, roughly 60 percent of K-12 officials surveyed by an industry group do not feel their schools have the bandwidth or devices to make them ready for summative, online testing.
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates says eradicating malaria, tuberculosis and polio is easier than fixing the United States' education system. But what he says he really wishes he could do is write a check to eliminate biological, chemical and…
Even though kindergarten is now mandatory in Hawaii, the state Dept. of Education says it anticipates 6,000 less keiki will be enrolled in kindergarten this upcoming school year than last year. This year, the state says project enrollment is about…
An investigation into potential cheating at a Clarksdale elementary school could be the first of many such probes by the Mississippi Department of Education as it confronts testing irregularities statewide. State Superintendent of Education Carey Wright said Monday she's considering…
An Ohio law that changes how administrators will evaluate teachers would reward educators considered high-performing by eliminating yearly formal evaluations. Gov. John Kasich signed into law earlier this month House Bill 362, which among other things, will allow teachers who…
The Tennessee State Board of Education cut ties Monday with a highly controversial policy that would have allowed poor student growth on tests to be a reason to pull teachers' professional licenses. In its place, commissioners advanced an alternative plan…
Thirteen months after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled against a group of plaintiffs seeking to dramatically increase state funding for public schools in Lobato v. Colorado, a group of districts and the state PTA have started a new fight over…
When I was in fifth grade, I struggled to move beyond basic math concepts – which I mastered – to more abstract math reasoning. I asked my parents for help. They politely declined with the kindly, but initiative-destroying, line, “Don’t…
Rep. Michelle Cook tells a familiar story — of one child who started kindergarten in Connecticut as the youngest in the class, and another who started as one of the eldest. The two children are her own, and to some…
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder last week signed a budget that requires the state to administer its No Child Left Behind-era test, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP), and not the Smarter Balanced assessment, for the 2014-15 school year. But that…
