A Blueprint for Reopening This Fall: What Will It Take to Get Schools Ready?
This Pandemic Is No Time to Backtrack on Special Education
It's worth remembering how far we've come on educating students with disabilities, writes Nebraska's education commissioner Matthew L. Blomstedt.
Stop Giving Inexperienced Teachers All the Lower-Level Math Classes, Reformers Argue
“Detracking” math teachers is tough because many educators resist upending their routines or challenging informal hierarchies, and PD initiatives to make it happen are limited.
Coronavirus Upends After-School World
With schools shut down, social distancing in place, and parents at home, after-school programs are laying off staff and switching gears to meet families' needs.
Trump Administration Shelves Guide to Reopening That Included Advice for Schools
The Trump administration has shelved a document created by the nation’s top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during the still-raging coronavirus outbreak.
With a Schools Superintendent Running the State, What Lies Ahead for Wisconsin?
After years of shepherding the state’s K-12 system, Democrat Tony Evers will be called on to make good as governor on his pledge of more funding for K-12.
In Wisconsin, a High-Pitched, Emotional Battle over K-12 Spending
Wisconsin is one of a handful of states where how much schools will get this fall is still being debated in the state capitol.
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Wisconsin
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Open Enrollment Has Drained One District. It's Looking to Dissolve
Wisconsin’s Palmyra-Eagle district has lost more than half its students in the last decade, sparking a fiscal crisis. A special board is deciding whether the district should be allowed to dissolve.
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Wisconsin
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Undergraduate Education Degrees Again Permitted in California
Aspiring teachers in California will now be able to major in education as undergraduates, which has been forbidden for more than five decades under an unusual state law.
The PACE Perspective on the 'The California Way'
Policy Analysis for California Education has been a premier ed policy organization for three decades. As Daisy Gonzales writes, it is in the forefront of shaping current reforms and interpreting them for audiences such as 'On California.'
Educational Opportunities and Performance in California
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Educational Opportunities and Performance in California
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Montana
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
What This Superintendent Learns From Teaching a High School Course
The leader of a Montana school district spends up to two hours each day grading assignments from students in an online English credit recovery program.
Why Some States Keep Schools Closed, Even as Businesses Move to Reopen
As some states move to jump-start economies shut down by the coronavirus, most are keeping their school buildings shuttered. What makes schools such an outlier?
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Montana
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Trump Again Pushes Schools to Reopen, Says Older Teachers Should Stay Home
The president said he'd "like to see schools open" where possible, although most states have closed them for the academic year, and said children seem to be doing relatively well during the coronavirus pandemic.
One State Polls the Public on Whether to Reopen Schools
As Montana's governor pursues a plan to gradually reopen the state, the state education department is relying in part on public opinion to decide whether to reopen schools this year.
Trust Local School Leaders, a State Chief Says as Optional Reopening Date Nears
Montana Superintendent Elsie Arntzen offers practical advice to schools that could open as early as May 7, even as she says "how they open schools and how learning takes place is up to them."
What if Hawaii's False Alarm Had Happened on a School Day?
Hawaii's schools are prepared to respond to ballistic missile threats, education officials wrote in a letter to parents after Saturday's false alarm.
Hawaii Settles Lawsuit on Illegal Age Limit for Special Education
About $8 million will be eligible for compensatory education to students who were affected by an illegal state-imposed age cap on special education enrollment.
Student Perspective: The True Meaning of Aloha
"Aloha" isn't just a greeting; in a way it is their way of life, and when you distort that sacred word, you distort their way of life.
He's Fighting for Details on How Hawaii Spent $2 Billion on Its Schools
An activist's lawsuit is an example of how many states, because of outdated software, have trouble answering the public's demand to detail how billions of K-12 dollars are spent.
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Hawaii
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Hawaii
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Newark Principals Speak Out, Get Suspended by Christie's Superintendent
Now Newark, New Jersey, is exploding, thanks to the attempts at intimidation by Governor Christie's hand-picked superintendent of schools, Cami Anderson.
How Schools Will Overcome the 'Coronavirus Slide:' Ideas From 5 Superintendents
With many school buildings closed for the rest of the academic year—and more to follow—district leaders turn their attention to making up for what may be deep learning losses.