New Hampshire legislators have introduced companion bills to offer tax credits to businesses for donating to private-school scholarship funds with an average scholarship at or below $2,500.
The Internal Revenue Service has extended the comment period on a pension rule change that could force states to remove nearly 100,000 charter school teachers from state pensions and withdraw benef
The Obama administration will let ten states miss student proficiency targets required by the federal No Child Left Behind law in exchange for them enacting policies the administration prefers.&nbs
Days before the Obama administration pushed for connecting every child to an e-textbook by 2017, Utah officials announced plans to release statewide open-source, digital textbooks for school this f
An Arizona judge has refused to block education savings accounts for disabled and foster children in the state, removing one more hurdle to school choice for the state’s one million schoolchildren.
A federal judge has ruled the nation's largest school voucher program constitutional, rejecting every legal claim brought against it, including the argument it represents state funding of religion.
An Illinois school board is threatening legal action against two parents for illegally enrolling their twin fifth graders in the district, though their father’s legal residence is in that district.
In passing a bill that would introduce vouchers, simplify and strengthen the state’s charter law, and expand education tax credits, Pennsylvania state senators dropped a Parent Trigger provision.
The Pennsylvania House’s Republican majority could not find enough consensus on a voucher bill to bring it to the floor for a vote before lawmakers suspended the session for Christmas.
A Florida state representative is considering filing legislation to regulate private schools that accept vouchers for disabled students, in light of a scandal involving millions of tax dollars spen
The basic structure of the U.S. education system has for decades stymied efforts to improve student learning beyond marginal gains, according to a series of reports from the Thomas B.
Public schools nationwide have started “to look at every single thing” that could ease widespread budget woes, says a National School Boards Association spokesman.
A prisoner tipping the scales at 400 pounds is suing prison officials for $1 million for failing to provide him clothing big enough to fit him.
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