The school board in Gwinnett County, Ga., will shift from a 4-1 white Republican majority to a 3-2 Black Democratic majority, mirroring demographic changes in the county.
A statewide initiative aims to enroll half the state's high school students into career pathways to close a "skills gap."
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.
This fall, five South Carolina high schools will offer an aerospace curriculum to develop the next generation of aviation technology talent in a state where officials say the industry is thriving.
The state is trying to fight an Education Department decision that it had not put enough money into special education in the 2010-11 school year.
A budget amendment will provide funds to develop a teacher incentive program in rural areas.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has greenlighted two more Every Student Succeeds Act plans from Virginia and South Carolina. That brings the grand total of states with approved plans to 39, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
A program that lets retired teachers keep working while collecting retirement benefits is set to expire at the end of the month.
A sea of red swept the capitals of North and South Carolina on Wednesday, as thousands of teachers turned out to demand higher pay and more school funding.
Nephron Pharmaceuticals, a drug manufacturing company in West Columbia, S.C., recently hired 650 current and retired teachers through a new program designed to provide educators with additional income.
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Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis is renewing a political trend that had fallen dormant: calling for the end of the use of the shared standards.
The state's board of education had renewed Commissioner Pam Stewart's contract for a year before the midterm election but after the election of a new Republican governor, she said she'd leave in January instead.
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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.
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Idaho officials asked a U.S. Supreme Court justice to block an injunction that allows a group backing an education ballot initiative to collect electronic signatures because of COVID-19.
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked an injunction that had allowed a group backing an Idaho education spending measure to collect electronic signatures because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The state will be allowed to use competency-based tests developed by local and state officials, trying them out with a handful of districts in lieu of statewide tests.
New Hampshire's education commissioner nominee Frank Edelblut, a businessman, Republican and school choice proponent, has been criticized throughout the state for his lack of education experience.
Charter schools are playing a notable role in remarks about education from candidates like Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Yet it's not clear what if any role they'll have in important states like Iowa and New Hampshire.
Best known in education circles for its performance assessment, New Hampshire is a hotbed of innovation around personalized learning, writes Adriana Martinez of the Innovation Lab Network.
A viral video of Dover, N.H., high school students singing a song about the Ku Klux Klan to the tune of "Jingle Bells" is causing outrage.
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"I'm running because I'm not happy with the state of education," said veteran educator Kevin Leineweber, who is one of several teachers running for the state's legislature this year.
Thousands of Indiana teachers are scrambling to begin renewing their professional teaching licenses before new rules that state lawmakers approved this spring take effect July 1.
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
A veteran teacher shares how he puts the latest research on growth mindset into action for his students in this guest blog by Jamie M. Carroll and David Yeager.
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
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.
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.
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.
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 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Rural Iowa school superintendents and school board members unite to form new rural education advocacy group.
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.
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.
Confusion reigns when it comes to finding and reporting data on school-related coronavirus infections. That's a problem for school leaders weighing shutdowns.