Students across the country expressed relief after the U.S. Department of Education confirmed direct student loans and Pell Grants won’t be stopped amid a broad federal funding pause ordered by President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration authorized federal authorities to conduct immigration arrests on school campuses, a decision a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said would prevent "criminals" from being able to "hide in America’s schools."

As Donald Trump’s second term approaches, colleges and K12 schools are taking steps to shield undocumented students from possible changes to immigration policy that could impact their education.

For the 2024-25 school year, 72% of public schools with special education teacher vacancies reported they'd "experienced difficulty" filling the positions, according to the Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics.

The factors to which teachers attribute students’ successes and failures have important consequences for teachers’ instructional decisions as well as their expectations of students, says a recent study published by Contemporary Educational Psychology.

School choice, an issue that has divided parents for years, is on the ballot in three states this November: Colorado, Kentucky and Nebraska. Choice programs allow states to spend public funds for private or alternative schools.

An oft-repeated phrase among parents and community members is that politics have no place in schools. But, this election, Florida's Constitution could be amended to make school board races partisan, meaning candidates would have to disclose whether they are Democrats, Republicans or members of another political party.

The Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a case from parents in Virginia and Michigan who argued the Justice Department targeted them for protesting at school board meetings. At the heart of the dispute was a 2021 memo Attorney General Merrick Garland aimed at combatting “a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation and threats of […]