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Eligibility for Federal School Improvement Grants Helped Ohio Students, Study Says

Academic achievement at Ohio schools eligible for School Improvement Grants during the Obama administration increased for a few years, a new study says, but SIG's legacy remains complicated.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Ohio

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Ohio

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Ohio lawmakers urge school funding fix as session nears end




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Ohio lawmakers OK revamp of eligibility for school vouchers




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Ohio House OKs school funding plan; unclear if Senate will




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Wyoming's Native Students More Likely to Face Suspension

Although Native American students make up a small percentage of Wyoming's student population, they are suspended more than their non-minority peers.




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States Dependent on Natural Resources Face Tricky Path on K-12 Revenue

Governors in several natural resource-dependent states said recently they will have to continue to cut public education funding because prices for oil and coal have not rebounded.




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School-Year Closures Now Affect 50 Million Students

Maryland's announcement Wednesday that school buildings won't reopen this academic year marked a a sobering milestone in the disruption to American education caused by the coronavirus pandemic.




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How 4 Communities Are Struggling to Prepare Kids for an Uncertain Future

Schools are slowly figuring out how to balance thinking globally with acting locally, and recognizing that some key skills are valuable no matter where students end up living.




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Why Is This Teacher Running for Office? To Help 'Students Get What They Deserve'

High school teacher Jenefer Pasqua is running for Wyoming's state legislature to fight against education funding cuts.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Wyoming

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Nation Gets a 'C' on School Finance, Even as Economic Downturn Takes Hold

Wyoming once again takes the top spot in Quality Counts' annual ranking of the states on school finance, while 22 states receive grades between C-minus and D-minus.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Wyoming

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Wyoming Schools Chief on the Coronavirus Challenge

"In communities most devastated by COVID-19, academic achievement is pretty far down on the priority list—this is the reality," says Wyoming state chief Jillian Balow.




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Wyoming teacher honored for student support amid pandemic




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Former lawmaker to serve as adviser to education chief




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Wife's racist tweets about Harris spur official to resign




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How Will Schools Pay for Compensatory Services for Special Ed. Students?

States’ efforts so far suggest there won’t be enough money to go around for all the learning losses of students with disabilities from COVID-19 school shutdowns.




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Lucille Bridges, Mother of Activist Ruby Bridges, Dies at 86

Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school, has died at the age of 86.




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Public aid for private schools lands at Michigan's top court




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Santa Fe schools end in-person learning experiment




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Gov. Lee hoping for teacher pay raises amid budget crunch




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Baptist couple ask court to ban book from son's school




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What Schools Are (and Aren’t) Doing to Support Teachers Worried About Safety of In-Person Learning

More schools are trying to shift to some in-person learning for students, but many teachers don’t believe it’s safe.




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Hybrid learning approved for high schoolers amid COVID spike




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Fever, symptom screening misses many coronavirus cases




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Clark County School District employees to work from home




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A Highly Effective Vaccine Is Likely on the Way. What Does That Mean for Schools and Kids?

Two infectious disease experts weigh in on how a COVID-19 vaccine that’s 90 percent effective, as early results are showing, could change school health and safety protocols.




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Federal Way reaches settlement with DOJ over school bullying




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Key role for Black policy leaders on Biden's transition team




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Iowa posts sixth day of more than 4,000 positive virus cases




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Polis: Proposed budget will ease suffering, set up recovery




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As schools reopen in Africa, relief is matched by anxiety




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NYC virus rate stays below school-closing threshold, for now




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Failing students triple in SC's largest school district




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Non-English speakers face challenges in virtual learning




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Minnesota schools struggle with staffing as virus surges




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NYC schools stay open, deputies break up illegal fight club




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Iowa seeing full hospitals, closed classrooms as virus rages




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How Schools Are Preparing for the Perfect Storm of Holiday Travel and COVID-19

Schools are putting in place or considering measures such as extending holiday breaks or shifting back to full-time remote learning.




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Let's Get Back to School, But Differently

To combat the pandemic's impact, districts need smaller classes for the youngest kids, writes former U.S. Ed. Secretary Arne Duncan.




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COVID-19 school turmoil, teacher pay face Indiana lawmakers




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Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have Missed

A collection of stories from the previous week that you may have missed.




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Advice From a Long-Serving School Board Member

Felton Williams shares insights from his 16 years as one of the few Black members on the Long Beach, Calif., school board.




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Building Better School Boards: 3 Strategies for District Leaders

Here are strategies for creating strong, respectful, productive relationships between superintendents and school boards.




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Training Bias Out of Teachers: Research Shows Little Promise So Far

After a summer of protests over racial injustice, school districts are embracing anti-bias programs. The problem is: Few studies show they work.




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Teaching's 'New Normal'? There's Nothing Normal About the Constant Threat of Death

As the bizarre becomes ordinary, don't forget what's at stake for America's teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Justin Minkel.




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Pennsylvania school disciplined for marching band's costumes




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Start date for high-risk winter sports in NY pushed back