Florida's governor signed a bill that will allow schools to arm classroom teachers, part of a longer list of school safety changes made after a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last year.
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Ron DeSantis had a thin record on K-12 issues as a Florida congressman, but as a first-term Republican governor he’s pushed an aggressive agenda on issues such as vouchers, teacher salaries and bonus pay, and even the common core.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
The nation's largest tax-credit scholarship program doesn't seem to have hurt the academics of students who remain in public schools, a new study shows.
Idaho lawmakers were upset to learn that nearly $17 million dedicated to giving teachers in leadership positions and assistants bonuses hasn't been distributed.
Idaho's highest court says teachers are not public figures and a former teacher need not prove that news outlets acted with malice in stories about sexual misconduct.
After photos surfaced of staff at dressed in Halloween costumes as Mexicans and a border wall bearing the slogan "Make America Great Again," the employees responsible won't be returning to their classrooms on Monday.
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
When Idaho education leaders pitched social-emotional learning training for teachers, some state lawmakers compared the plan to dystopian behavior control. Some walked out of the meeting.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
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.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Impact Academy at Orchard Lake is among a growing number of public schools where teachers have a say in what goes on, from the learning approach to staffing and scheduling.
Alexandria Area High School was created to accommodate changes in education and technology.
Ted Kolderie, who helped launch the charter school movement through his work in Minnesota, discusses school choice, school accountability, the evolving role of teachers, and more.
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.
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 director of teaching and learning for a Minnesota district talks about putting e-learning days into action under difficult circumstances.
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.
Fast-moving bills in two state legislatures could dictate to their education departments what goes into the states' accountability plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Academic and health offerings have increased in McDowell County, W.Va., due to a private-public partnership.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
The legislature sent a proposal last week to Gov. Jim Justice's desk to shutter the state's advisory education and the arts department, leaving the Gayle Manchin and her staff in the lurch.
In Tuesday night's Republican primary in West Virginia, Robert Karnes, a West Virginia Republican state senator who lashed out at teachers during their nine-day strike, lost to pro-labor candidate Bill Hamilton.
Lawmakers effectively killed the controversial education bill that had prompted the second statewide strike in two years.
A Greenville, Miss. teacher was fired and a superintendent placed on administrative leave after a video of a student being dragged by her hair surfaced on social media.
The name change comes as leaders of the school district in Mississippi's capital city, where more than 95 percent of students are African-American, are reconsidering Confederacy-linked names on three campuses.
Many state politicians and advocates used U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' recent feedback as an opportunity to attack their states' approach to the Every Student Succeeds Act.
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Governors' races in Kentucky and Mississippi took center stage, testing the political muscle of teacher activists and yielding possible policy implications for everything from public employee pensions to teacher pay.
Voters in three southern states will head to the polls for governors races that have shined a spotlight on educator activism, school funding, and teacher pay.
This year's November elections—a preview to next year's nationwide showdowns—cast their own spotlight on education, a dynamic that played out most prominently in the Kentucky governor's race, where teachers organized to unseat a combative incumbent who'd sparred with them.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
The court revived a lawsuit claiming that Mississippi's lack of a "uniform" education system violates the 1868 federal law that readmitted the state to the Union.
Resurrecting an old idea about assessing school quality could allow schools to examine a broad range of data on performance and practices and lead to improvement.
What would a new Democratic administration mean for education? We're getting a clearer idea as former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders emerge as top contenders for the nomination.
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
A handful of districts and other groups are reshaping the after-school space to provide a wide range of social and linguistic supports for newcomer students.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.