Policy State Are Pulling Back on K-12 Spending. How Hard Will Schools Get Hit? David Blanchard, superintendent of the Schoharie schools in rural upstate New York, has been hard at work with his team preparing two versions of... adminMarch 7, 2024
Policy Oklahoma Nonbinary Student’s Death Shines a Light on Families’ Legal Recourse for Bullying The death last month of a nonbinary Oklahoma student following a fight with other students in a high school restroom, while still mired in... adminMarch 6, 2024
Policy Using AI to Guide School Funding: 4 Takeaways At least one state has begun using artificial intelligence to determine the number of students who are at risk of failing to graduate on... adminMarch 1, 2024
Policy A State Uses AI to Determine School Funding. Is This the Future or a Cautionary Tale? Renee Fairless runs three K-8 public charter schools in Nevada that enroll a total of nearly 4,000 students. Almost all of the students are... adminFebruary 28, 2024
Policy How States Are Rethinking Where School Funding Should Go The Staunton schools in Virginia employ roughly 530 people. But according to the state, they only need 200. That means the state only contributes... adminFebruary 23, 2024
Policy Low-Performing Schools Are Left to Languish by Districts and States, Watchdog Finds Nearly a decade ago, Congress handed states and districts near-autonomy to fix their worst- performing schools in the ways they saw fit. Now, many... adminFebruary 23, 2024
Policy A Court Ordered Billions for Education. Why Schools Might Not Get It Now Republican justices on North Carolina’s highest court signaled on Thursday that they’re open to revising a court order made less than two years ago... adminFebruary 22, 2024
Policy Supreme Court Declines Case on Selective High School Aiming to Boost Racial Diversity Over a sharp dissent by two justices, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to the admissions plan for... adminFebruary 20, 2024
Policy ESSER Isn’t the Only School Funding Relief That’s Disappearing Soon A slew of federal and state funding initiatives that helped schools weather the logistical and financial chaos of the pandemic are set to expire... adminFebruary 13, 2024
Policy Scholars’ Writing Is Often Unclear. Why That Matters for the K-12 Field (Opinion) In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field... adminFebruary 12, 2024