North Carolina: 74% of Students Using Vouchers Were Already in Private Schools

PA House Democrats Advance Bill Restricting School Choice Programs

PA House Democrats Advance Bill Restricting School Choice Programs

Rural Areas of Indiana Have Few School Options

Indiana’s school choice program leaves its nearly 300,000 rural public school students with fewer options and fewer resources while funding the private education of others. More than one in four Indiana school students, or 28, reside in rural areas. A recent analysis of each of Indiana’s 82 rural counties found that only eight, or fewer []

शिक्षकको तलब भुक्तानीका लागि थप बजेट व्यवस्थापन गर्न केन्द्रको निर्देशन

काठमाडौँ । सामुदायिक विद्यालयका शिक्षकहरूको तलब भत्ता भुक्तानीमा देखिएको बजेट अभाव व्यवस्थापन गर्न शिक्षा तथा मानव स्रोत विकास केन्द्रले सम्बन्धित सबै स्थानीय तहलाई आवश्यक निर्देशन दिएको छ। केन्द्रको योजना तथा अनुगमन शाखाले जारी गरेको पत्रमा आर्थिक वर्ष २०८२/८३ मा शिक्षकहरूको तलब भत्ताका लागि स्थानीय तहमा वित्तीय हस्तान्तरण गरिएको बजेट अपुग भएको भन्दै कतिपय स्थानीय तहबाट []

Amid Pride Month, feds investigate school bathroom use by NC trans students

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Trump administration has singled out two western North Carolina school districts as part of a nationwide push during Pride Month targeting schools over their bathroom policies for transgender students. Buncombe County and ...

DE parents frustrated with lack of access to affordable neighborhood preschools 

Many families say there is a lack of adequate and affordable preschools in Delaware. The post DE parents frustrated with lack of access to affordable neighborhood preschools appeared first on Spotlight Delaware.

America's next 250 years begin in the classroom

The Education Freedom Tax Credit launching in 2027 could reshape school choice by empowering charitable giving to fund scholarship organizations.

Nebraska is #1 in Supporting Its Public Schools!

The Network for Public Education publishes an annual ranking of states in relation to their support for their public schools. This year, for the third year in a row, Nebraska topped all other states in the ranking of states. The legislature, led by Republicans, wants school choice, including vouchers. The legislature allocated 10 million for []

Free Summer Childcare Helps Student Parents

Free Summer Childcare Helps Student Parents Joshua.Bay Wed, 07/08/2026 - 03:00 AM For student parents, finding childcare can mean the difference between stopping out and staying on track. LaGuardia Community College is stepping in to help. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

School Choice on the Brink: PA Democrats Put State Before Students

As many as 30,000 students could lose their scholarships.

How An Immigrants-Only Program Could Bankrupt Your Hometown

Somewhere in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small steel-town school district of about 1,400 kids, a school board member is looking at a budget line that didn’t exist a decade ago. In 2014, the district had approximately

Disillusioned North West Youth Turn Away From Voter Registration Amid Unemployment Frustrations

LICHTENBURG, North West – Disillusioned North West youth are turning away from voter registration for the upcoming November 2026 local government elections, citing severe unemployment and a lack of meaningful community change. During the registration weekend held in Boikhutso Location in Lichtenburg, young residents expressed deep frustration with the democratic process, choosing to stay away []

Child education allowance exemption: Can you claim?

Child education allowance exemption: Can you claim?

Crackdown on unregistered private schools, academies

Crackdown on unregistered private schools, academies

Fewer than half of students passing math, reading at 900 NYC public schools

Failure in the city’s public education system has become “normalized” — and even bolstered by grade inflation and fixing — with nearly half of schools consistently failing their students, a bombshell new report found. The sweeping analysis, conducted by the Success Academy Charter Schools network, found that in those 906 public schools, fewer than half []...Click to read more

How a school district cut chronic absenteeism by 65%

Nearly 1-in-4 students were chronically absent in 2023 at New Trier High School. That dropped by 65 after reforms were implemented. The post How a school district cut chronic absenteeism by 65 appeared first on Illinois Policy.

What to know about Tuesday’s primary elections in Maryland, Utah, New York

Redistricting will be central to Democratic primaries in Utah and Maryland while South Carolina faces Republican run-off.

Parents pay $10,000 a year to send their children to this Sydney private school. But it doesn’t pay its teachers wages

Teacher salaries account for about two-thirds of every school’s expenditure. But not at Redeemer Baptist School.

New: Another Blue State Ignores Daycares With No Kids Despite Massive Subsidies

New: Another Blue State Ignores Daycares With No Kids Despite Massive Subsidies

Column: Teacher pension problems continue to get bigger – Champaign News-Gazette

“When you hear framings like ‘schools are underfunded’ or ‘schools are overfunded,’ usually those are missing the point. It’s that a growing share of what we already spend never reaches students, and until that problem is directly confronted, even the largest tax increases will struggle to deliver on their stated promises,” write Joshua Rauh and Gregory Kearney of Stanford’s Hoover Institute.

Ore. officials propose attendance law overhaul

The Oregon Department of Education has proposed repealing and replacing existing attendance laws to improve student attendanc -More-

Poverty, discrimination keep San children out of school

San communities say poverty, discrimination, teenage pregnancy, and a lack of access to quality education continue to rob many children of their right to education. This traps generations in a cycle of marginalisation, says Maria Garises, an Omaheke San community member. These concerns were raised during the launch of the San Children Embrace Education Project [] The post Poverty, discrimination keep San children out of school appeared first on The Namibian.

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A new white paper from NWEA, and its accompanying op-ed in The Hill, claim that districts are more likely to permanently shutter schools with a high proportion of poor and/or Black students, even after controlling for enrollment patterns. Which made me think: Here we go again. As with previous analyses from other scholars, it plays the greatest hits: document that Black and poor students are overrepresented in some unfortunate circumstance (in this case, school closures), control for one or two Read More

Lack of childcare hitting deprives areas of Limerick, according to TD

LACK of early childcare places is impacting hundreds of children in one of Limerick’s most deprived areas, according to Sinn Féin TD Maurice Quinlivan. The city TD raised the lack of available childcare places in Ballinacurra Weston with Taoiseach Micheál Martin in the Dáil. “Ballinacurra Weston is one of the most disadvantaged areas in the [] The post Lack of childcare hitting deprives areas of Limerick, according to TD appeared first on Limerick Post.

Religious Liberty Commission report backs school voucher programs

Spectrum News 1 (Harlingen, TX) By Erin Davis ... More » from Religious Liberty Commission report backs school voucher programs The post Religious Liberty Commission report backs school voucher programs appeared first on Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Unions’ sneaky attack on Wisconsin vouchers just blew up in their faces

Progressives have been relentless in their assault on successful school choice programs this year, recently targeting Wisconsin’s popular programs. Fortunately, the litigation attack against Wisconsin’s voucher programs has just been defanged, though certainly the political offensive continues. Wisconsin teachers’ unions and their allies recently filed a lawsuit claiming the Wisconsin legislature has failed to provide []

City declines to use reserve funds to prevent BPS layoffs as more than 560 positions are cut

Faced with continued enrollment declines, school officials in Boston say that their new budget maintains a 10:1 student to teacher ratio. The post City declines to use reserve funds to prevent BPS layoffs as more than 560 positions are cut appeared first on Boston.com.

ISTELive 26: Experts Urge School Leaders To Advocate for E-Rate

The E-Rate program, a federal initiative that has been providing broadband discounts to K–12 districts since 1998, is currently under review, and experts are asking individuals to advocate for the program during a public comment period. That was the messaging at ISTELive 26 in Orlando, Fla., where Dave LeNard, E-Rate manager for CDW, and Amy Passow, senior manager of education funding solutions for CDW, spoke to school and district leaders about the importance of saving this program. What Is E-Rate? The E-Rate program is designed to provide connectivity to schools and libraries. It

County with 37 data centers tells schools to turn off lights to save electricity

Henrico County, Virginia, has asked its schools and government offices to cut power use as the local grid struggles to meet the power demands of its 37 data centers and considers the impact of 17 more under proposal. Matthew Gault of 404 Media acquired email sent by County Manager John Vithoulkas to thousands of county employees on June 26, warning that the rate Henrico pays for electricity in all county and school facilities was about to rise by 25, adding an estimated 5 million to costs in the coming fiscal year. — Read the rest The post County with 37 data centers tells schools to turn off lights to save electricity appeared first on Boing Boing.

‘A damning indictment’ - Number of Northern Ireland secondary schools in deficit up by almost a fifth

The number of secondary schools in Northern Ireland operating in a budget deficit has risen by almost a fifth in just five years.

Pennsylvania bill could prevent schools from barring homeless students

The clock is ticking on a proposed Pennsylvania law mandating that school districts protect the federally guaranteed rights of homeless students. The bill gained traction last year after a Center for Public Integrity investigation revealed that districts in the state locked students out of school for weeks or months while investigating their families’ claims of [] The post Pennsylvania bill could prevent schools from barring homeless students appeared first on Center for Public Integrity.

Fairfax County Schools in VA Sued for Allegedly Hiding Student Gender Transitions From Parents

“FCPS was given an opportunity to correct its anti-parent policies” The post Fairfax County Schools in VA Sued for Allegedly Hiding Student Gender Transitions From Parents first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

Fewer and fewer families are buying fresh fruits and vegetables in North Carolina: what are the reasons?

l alza de precios, la pérdida de programas de ayuda y la recuperación tras Helene se juntan en el oeste del estado, donde los mercados gratuitos de comida fresca atienden [] The post Fewer and fewer families are buying fresh fruits and vegetables in North Carolina: what are the reasons? appeared first on URL Media.

More Top Black Students Are Choosing HBCUs Over the Ivies

As fewer Black students apply to white colleges, our HBCUs are seeing a rise in enrollment driven by the repeal of DEI and Affirmative Action.

Head Start Isn’t Really Giving Kids a Head Start. Here’s How to Deal With It. 

For many families, summer often means scoping out childcare options while parents continue to work. Some families in low-income neighborhoods turn to Head Start, a program whose very name suggests children should expect to finish their time at one of these centers better prepared for school. But today, after more than 60 years and over 240 billion in spending, the program has fallen well short of that goal. A new Heritage Foundation report reveals a harsh reality: Head Start centers are overregulated, unsafe, expensive, and fail to deliver lasting...

Bor County education conference adopts bold public school reforms

The education department in Jonglei State’s Bor County, in partnership with education partners, on Tuesday The post Bor County education conference adopts bold public school reforms appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.