A state audit has found more than $2 million in improper disbursements to Mason City CSD staff between 2009 and 2017. The Iowa State Auditor's Office's report shows 66 district employees were paid more than the authorized salary amount and several also received other monetary benefits.

LA Makerspace and Imagination.org have merged with Two Bit Circus Foundation to unify their STEAM education efforts. Two Bit Circus Foundation currently operates in nearly half the schools of LAUSD while LA Makerspace has makerspace STEAM labs in 167 partner library branches.

Warwick's school committee is seeking a court order declaring that the school budget approved by the city's council is not sufficient to let the committee comply with the law, regulations and contracts. The complaint also asks the court to order the city to increase its education appropriation by $4.9 million.

Students in the Washington area owe nearly half a million dollars so far this school year in “lunch debt,” according to an analysis. Tens of thousands of students in the six public school districts in and around the nation's capital are in the red, according to district officials.

Despite FAFSA's importance, one quarter of students don't complete it. A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics provides some context for why that is, with reasons ranging from the students' perception that they may not qualify for financial aid to the perception that the forms and application process are too burdensome to concerns about debt.

ACT has acquired Knovation, Inc., a curator of K12 open educational resources. The Knovation assets included in the agreement are the Knovation Content Collection, the netTrekker application and the icurio digital curriculum application.

School violence and teacher strikes dominated education news during 2018. But last year also saw empowered students voicing their frustrations: Youth activism surged around gun control, safer schools, immigration, voting and LGBTQ issues.

A new wave of professional development partnerships will double the capacity of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to offer its Certification for Educators edtech training to teachers in person and online. Some of the newest certification providers include Illinois Computing Educators, New Jersey’s Eduscape, Wisconsin’s Cooperative Educational Service Agency 2, Ohio’s Butler […]