2+ week, 4+ day ago   (838+ words) With the growing competition for students because of school choice, the Leon County school district must answer one existential question: How does it get kids back into the traditional public school system? To answer it, the district has hired the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (416+ words) President Donald Trump on Monday marked the back-to-school season by promoting his administration’s school choice agenda and pledging to put parents "back in charge" of where and how their children are educated. Speaking at a White House event alongside Education…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (421+ words) Public preschool pays off, according to a newly released longitudinal study of thousands of Miami-Dade students. The takeaway: third grade students who went to public pre-K were doing better than their peers on average, and the positive effect in reading…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (269+ words) An Indiana community college has been chosen for the nation's second Workforce Pell Grant program, the U.S. Department of Education told IndyStar Aug. 19. Eligible students who plan to enroll in Ivy Tech Community College's clinical medical assistant program will now qualify…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1586+ words) After years of frustrations, Courtney Steed made the difficult decision to pull her kids from Springfield Public Schools, quitting her six-figure tech job to start homeschooling this fall. Steed's choice came from a number of factors, one of which was…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (281+ words) BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) -- A Baton Rouge Magnet High School student took home the top prize in a national oratorical competition in New York City. Niles Haymer II, 16, won the 100 Black Men of America’s inaugural Oratorical Competition with his…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (823+ words) One Kentucky nonprofit is paving the way to bring a new financial resource to the state's public school students, using a heavily criticized program that will also benefit private schools. Established within the Trump administration's "One Big Beautiful Bill," a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (15+ words) More than 170 Texas schools faced closure in recent years. Many were not failing AOL.com...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (212+ words) The DREAM Program Inc. has received a $375,000 AmeriCorps award that will fund 70 AmeriCorps members serving 38 low-income and rural communities across Vermont to support 600 young people. The grant will help expand mentoring, after-school and summer programming for underserved youth across the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (456+ words) As an experienced science teacher in North Carolina, finding innovative, authentic resources to engage my students has never been easy. After all, math and English are the tested subjects, and school funding and professional development often follow the areas the…...