Former Republican Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens appointed enough board members to have Commissioner Margie Vandeven fired last year, but now that he's gone, the state board decided to hire her back.
A small group of science teachers in Missouri is using the coronavirus as a teachable moment that's aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.
The justices declined to hear the appeal of the Ferguson-Florissant district over its at-large board elections, which lower courts invalidated as violating the Voting Rights Act.
New state mandates start next school year aimed at identifying and supporting students with dyslexia. The 2016 law also led to development of training for teachers.
Former Missouri education Commissioner Margie Vandeven, who was fired by by the state's board of education, has been rehired.
Controversy over an intiative aimed a reducing inequities in Lee's Summit, Mo., schools led the police department to provide security protection for the district's first African-American superintendent. Now the school board has reversed course.
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Educators who work in personalized learning schools are adjusting instruction for remote, hybrid, and in-person learning.
The three board members, along with a resident, request that the court grant a restraining order and preliminary injunction against the state to reverse the takeover.
Already, some educators and prominent education advocates have entered their names into the running for of the many 2018 state races around the country where education policy is likely to be a hot topic.
In Arkansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin, educators and advocates will be on this year's ballot for governor, a position that will inevitably have an outsized role in shaping education policy.
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Worried that far too many students have weak reading skills, states are passing new laws that require aspiring teachers—and, increasingly, teachers who are already in the classroom—to master reading instruction that’s solidly grounded in research.
The Arkansas Department of Education will now provide on-site help for schools and districts in the state that are experiencing cybersecurity incidents.
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Mississippi, Arkansas, and New Mexico have the highest percentages of students who lack adequate home technology for remote learning.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
School administrators in some states are caught up in tensions about who gets the final say about when they can reopen their buildings and what precautions they should take to protect their communities.
Gov. Branstad urged lawmakers in his Condition of the State address to pass legislation that would require schools to inform parents if their child is involved in a bullying incident and allow school personnel to intervene in any bullying that takes place off school grounds.
Rural Iowa school superintendents and school board members unite to form new rural education advocacy group.
That brings the number of states with approved plans to 44, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Still awaiting the OK: California, Florida, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Utah
Many are whipsawed by shutdown recommendations aimed at stemming the coronavirus, and the logistical and financial consequences of those actions.
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
With their state’s caucuses the first official marker in the 2020 presidential contest, Iowa teenagers are in a unique position to observe and participate.
Challengers of state executive orders, to open schools for in-person instruction in some places and keep them closed in others, are having difficulty getting meaningful relief from the courts.
Primary season is now upon us. Here are three ideas for teaching in the wake of the Iowa caucus fallout.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Lawsuits are percolating nationwide as state officials, parents, teachers, and others clash over how and whether school buildings should reopen amid the continuing pandemic.
Confusion reigns when it comes to finding and reporting data on school-related coronavirus infections. That's a problem for school leaders weighing shutdowns.
The Minnesota Star Tribune review found that similar to traditional district schools, the highest performing charters generally served wealthier families.
Minnesota and West Virginia are the first two states that submitted plans in the fall to win federal approval.
Alexandria Area High School was created to accommodate changes in education and technology.
Gov. Dayton used his State of the State address to announce a review of all K-12 assessments with a goal of streamlining and reducing standardized testing, to push for expansion of early-childhood education, and to introduce the idea of extending school days and the school year.
State of the States: Education highlights from latest governor's address before the legislature.
With the mammoth budget deficit finally under control, Gov. Tim Pawlenty is calling on the legislature to fund a variety of K-12 technology initiatives in his fiscal 2006 budget.
The state's incoming governor and education commissioner both are former teachers. They face battles over school accountability, funding and the achievement gap between white and minority students.
Gov. Pawlenty used his annual speech to focus on teaching and technology in the schools.
An audit of the early-childhood education offerings in Minnesota finds complexity and fragmentation as well as a lack of data about program effectiveness.
The Minnesota court of appeals has again rejected a lawsuit alleging that teacher tenure and seniority rights in public schools saddle students of color with ineffective teachers and therefore violate those students' right to an adequate education.