In 2024, the state’s universal pre-K program for 4-year-olds—called transitional kindergarten—administered the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC), the same screener used ...

We need to get back to a balanced federal-state approach that benefits all students. A priority for the federal side must be ...

A new survey finds growing interest in non-degree pathways post-graduation, but schools are struggling to keep up.

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The Trump administration expects at least 2 million K-12 students nationwide to receive scholarships through its new national ...

If that happens, Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia, currently the top Democrat on the House education committee who served as its chairman from 2019 to 2023, may be back in a position to set much of the ...

Attempts to significantly boost funding for federal K-12 grant programs: In. That’s the CliffsNotes version of the U-turn ...

Private schools that charge tuition have a straightforward path to accepting scholarship dollars from their students. Public schools, meanwhile, are bound by a tangled web of legal and constitutional ...

Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a ...

In the new book, Ending Teacher Shortages, researcher Tuan Nguyen highlights need to move from magic bullets to a more stable ...

Two months ago, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced proposed changes to Head Start that ...