Two new reports caution that if schools make missteps implementing AI, the results could haunt them for years, locking them into a future largely written by big tech instead of those closest to kids. The reports, both the results of small, intensive gatherings of educators, policymakers, researchers, tech officials and students last year, share a...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A Southern California school district agreed to sweeping reforms Friday in settling a state attorney general investigation into how it handled allegations staff sexually abused students.    The wide-ranging stipulated judgment with the El Monte Union High School District draws to a close an...

Children whose caretakers are detained or deported face not only the loss of their loved ones, but, oftentimes, removal from their homes and schools — abrupt upheavals that can land them in one of many places. Some, freshly pressed passports in hand, end up in their parents’ country of origin — even when it’s not...

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,...

This story was co-published with Mother Jones.  Updated March 27, 2026: In response to this story, YouTube terminated six channels for violating the platform’s terms of service and one channel for violating its spam policy. In a video that has been played almost 50,000 times since it was posted five months ago, two cartoon children sing...

All 8th graders in the San Francisco Unified School District will soon be able to enroll in Algebra I now that board members voted earlier this week to fully restore the course at the middle school level. The 50,000-student system made headlines in 2014 when it eliminated the curriculum for eighth graders in an effort to...

This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Following allegations of rape and sexual abuse by the late California labor leader Cesar Chavez, more than 30 school districts across the state face questions about renaming elementary, middle and high schools, while at least one California State University reckons with its memorialization of...

This story was originally published by EdSource Thousands of California school employees have received preliminary pink slips in recent weeks as districts scrabble to close budget gaps caused by falling enrollment and rising costs. Most went to school administrators and classified school staff, such as clerks, administrative assistants and paraeducators. Districts were complying with a state...

Lauren McNally recalls when the checks began showing up at her house in 2021. As part of the expanded, refundable child tax credit, McNally and her husband were among 36 million families who received monthly checks from the federal government to offset the costs of raising their children. “It helped us pay off some credit...

This story was originally published on EdSource. The Los Angeles Unified School District has approved a resolution at its Tuesday board meeting to avoid contracting with vendors that support federal immigration actions.  The resolution, approved unanimously, would require the district to review its existing vendors and contracts to determine whether they enable immigration enforcement actions...