As financial pressures mount, many rural systems are compressing their calendars — sparking debate over trade-offs in learning time and family burdens.
Kindergarten readiness and degree attainment are improving, yet literacy challenges, soaring tuition and student well-being concerns continue to weigh on the system.
Ryan Walters departs amid clashes with the governor, controversies over TV displays and academic battles.
Fewer open positions stem from budget cuts and disappearing federal relief funds, not from solving the state’s chronic recruitment and retention challenges.
High school students’ math and reading proficiency levels are the lowest in decades. Only rigorous accountability and proven improvement strategies can turn that around.
With nearly $7 billion in K-12 support delayed, districts are bracing for cuts to staff, programs and student services.
These programs are under relentless attack but there is no evidence that they’ve given Black Americans any disproportionate benefit.
Starting pay must be at least 62 percent of average district pay. That’s lifted morale and reduced vacancies in Billings by 70 percent.
The policy removes income limits, ensuring every family has access to free child care and strengthening the state’s early education system.
Average performance in both subjects has fallen to the lowest levels in nearly 20 years, with nearly half of seniors scoring below basic in math.
Federal funding and streamlined community college curriculum could make it easier to get on track for steady, well-paid employment.
After Katrina, most of the city's schools became charters. Although the change brought results, the importance of accountability measures should not be forgotten.
Even during a time of inflation, there are ways to relieve financial pressures on families.
Student enrollment has plunged by 27 percent in the last decade but campuses and staffing remain largely intact, stretching resources and budgets.
Seeing an absence of strong national leadership on education reform, the Fordham Institute’s Michael J. Petrilli investigated the difference between red and blue state approaches.
The new Education Freedom Scholarship provides $7,295 per student, compared to $7,023 through the state’s public school formula.
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