Florida lawmakers are considering two major school choice proposals: A “charter course” option to let K-12 and college students use tax money for individual classes outside public schools, and educ
Idaho’s House Education Committee heard testimony in January concerning the Common Core education standards, an effort to standardize what schools across the country teach through common K-12 stand
In January, Congress voted to send an extra $100 million to Head Start, a few weeks after Department of Health and Human Services released its long-overdue evaluation of the federal preschool progr
As state leaders across the country consider how to increase student access to online learning, a new report by the Independence Institute outlines several important steps Colorado should take to i
A handful of states are reconsidering their commitment to the Common Core education standards adopted recently by 45 states under heavy federal incentives.
After offering 16 states waivers of No Child Left Behind requirements in exchange for implementing policy changes he prefers, Education Secretary Arne Duncan publicly floated the idea of offering s
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill expanding the state’s first-in-nation education savings accounts, charging the education choice program skews “a competitive market.”
The Virginia Senate voted 23-17 to postpone until next year a bill to replace unlimited public school teacher tenure with three-year contracts, one of Gov.
House Republicans have released draft language for the last two of five bills to rewrite and reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, currently known as No Child Left Behind.
The U.S. Senate is considering an 860-page bill and 868-page amendment by Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) to reauthorize No Child Left Behind.
Dissatisfied with the pace of No Child Left Behind reauthorization in Congress, the Department of Education announced it will waive some of the law’s penalties for individual states, provided the s
The long-term social benefits of good preschools for poor children found by a new study of a Chicago pilot program would likely have difficulty scaling up, as have all similar programs.
Jacobs High School student Allison Leja of Algonquin, Illinois sued Carpentersville-based Community Unit School District 300 after she was allegedly hit in the face in the gymnasium by a...
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