Wendy Graham’s two kids first encountered Amira, a popular artificial intelligence tutoring platform, in 2025, during a summer reading program in New Mexico. She also used it at home with her daughter, now a fourth grader. But she found that the purple-haired avatar with the big, round glasses didn’t seem to understand where her...

As superintendent of Desert Sands Unified in California’s Coachella Valley, Kelly May-Vollmer has a hard time naming a system that’s not somehow connected to the district’s broadband network. Parents can check a school bus tracking app to make sure their child arrived on time. Cafeteria staff don’t use cash registers; kids’ meal accounts are linked...

NEWNAN, Ga. — Arnco-Sargent Elementary sits in a wooded area on a two-lane road about 50 miles south of Atlanta. Across the street is a child care center. A Baptist church is less than a mile away. But if developers get their way, the school’s newest neighbor could be a sprawling data center campus housing...

Nearly 6 million children in California would be eligible for a scholarship under the new federal tax credit for education, more than in any other state, new data shows. But unlike other states with millions of eligible students, like Texas, Florida and New York, California hasn’t opted into the new Treasury Department program, and so...

Hazel Health, which once described itself as “the largest K-12 mental and physical health provider in the nation,” faces an uncertain future after enduring two rounds of layoffs since last fall and the loss of several lucrative contracts with school districts. In February, the telehealth company let go of 135 staff members, including clinicians who...

Community members packed a high school auditorium in Chelsea, Massachusetts, last month to oppose the school board’s plan to cut 70 positions, including reading coaches, special education staff and counselors.  “These support systems are what students really rely on,” one girl told the board. “As someone who struggles a lot with being overwhelmed and anxious,...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory Monday to those who argue that schools should inform parents if their child changes their gender identity, even without the student’s consent. In the California case, Mirabelli v. Bonta, the conservative justices reinstated a December district court decision that temporarily blocked schools from keeping such information private or...

The Trump administration says California schools violated parents’ rights by pressuring schools to keep students’ gender transitions a secret. In the decision announced Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education told state officials that they can resolve the dispute by treating any school “gender support plans” as education records available for parents’ inspection and let districts...

For the past 17 years, former Los Angeles school board members and staff have trekked to a ranch in the mountains southwest of Denver to enjoy the company of their onetime district superintendent, Roy Romer. Wielding chainsaws, they helped the 97-year-old former Colorado governor clear out fallen timber this year to make a path for...

Education policy and Hollywood rarely intersect.  But when filmmaker Rob Reiner latched onto the science about how young children develop, he not only used his moviemaking platform to convince the public of the importance of kids’ early years, he became a real-life policymaker to champion the cause.  After successfully steering the passage of a 1998...