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'A rallying point': How one school district inspired statewide reform

Clarion Ledger | February 10, 2025

Oktibbeha County schools had faced years of poor academic performance before they were consolidated into the Starkville School District in 2015. A decade later, signs of success exist.

The punishment for making a school threat? Counseling

February 10, 2025

Teenagers who make school threats face almost no punitive consequences for actions that would be felonies if they were adults, a Times Union investigation has found.

Closed schools: Here is where a bad flu season has canceled classes

Matt Zalaznick | February 07, 2025

Whether this flu season is worse than normal or even unprecedented, one fact is clear: outbreaks have closed schools and entire districts in several parts of the country.

U.S. education policy is at a crossroads. This congressional hearing shows why

NPR | February 07, 2025

President Trump and Republicans have also voiced a desire to use their congressional majorities to overhaul higher education and create a federal tax credit program that would help families nationwide pay for private schooling.

Opinion: We must acknowledge that students are asking for options beyond the four-year college degree

MinnPost | February 07, 2025

More than 2.4 million students came to college last fall for certificates or “non-degree” credentials, part of a shift in consumer and employer demand for “just-in-time” learning, according to a report by National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Here's what superintendents think of the Title IX reversal

Micah Ward | February 07, 2025

State Superintendents have mixed opinions of the revert to Title IX's 2020 regulations. Here's what they're saying.

Phone ban in schools not improving grades or behavior, British study suggests

BBC | February 06, 2025

Students' sleep, classroom behavior, exercise or how long they spend on their phones overall also seems to be no different for schools with phone bans and those without, the academics found.

Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled

Axios | February 06, 2025

President Trump's plan to dismantle the Department of Education could have a greater financial impact on red states, as they relied on federal funding for 17% of education spending in 2021-22, compared to 11% in blue states.