The parents come at all hours of the day and night. A nurse drops off her kids before starting a 12-hour day at the hospital. A father picks his kids up in the dead of night, after his warehouse shift ends at 1 a.m. Another mom sometimes needs childcare at 4 a.m. so she can...

This was originally published by CalMatters. In Kern County, the first rule in counting homeless students is not saying “homeless.” Instead, school staff use phrases like “struggling with stable housing” or “families in transition.” The approach seems to have worked: More families are sharing their housing status with their children’s schools, which means more students...

This story was published in partnership with The Post and Courier. Carter was in first grade when the suspensions began. His mom describes it as the year “all hell broke loose.” As he made his way through the public school system in York County, South Carolina, the now-15-year-old, who has multiple disabilities, continued to struggle....

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California school districts are short hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grant money they had already budgeted for this year. While Congress approved the funds as part of its 2025 budget, the Trump Administration today refused to release them, sending districts across...

The day education leaders, researchers and advocates have feared is here: It is now clear that student attendance will not return to pre-pandemic rates on its own. The number of students missing more than 10% of the school year skyrocketed in the COVID years from 15% in 2019 to 28% in 2022. Five years after...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In Florida, a bill that bans cellphone use in elementary and middle schools, from bell to bell, recently sailed through the state Legislature. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law on May 30, 2025. The same bill calls for high schools in six Florida districts to...

This story was originally published on EdSource. Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially retired and replaced with a literacy performance assessment to ensure educators are prepared to teach students to read. The Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) has been a major hurdle for teacher candidates for years....

The Los Angeles Unified School District just adopted a belt-tightening budget that school officials called a tough compromise — but the district’s teachers union and some education activists weren’t happy with the results.  The nation’s second-largest school district in June approved a $18.8 billion budget, avoiding layoffs by tapping into retirement money for teachers. School...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As the world settled into pandemic life, students who graduated from high school during the COVID-19 crisis started new chapters of their lives in social and academic seclusion. Many spent their senior year on Zoom, without homecomings, proms or graduations. They struggled to...

This story was originally published at the LAist The Los Angeles Unified board unanimously approved a $18.8 billion budget that relies on diminishing reserves to make ends meet. “There is a tempest ahead, uncertainty, instability, a threat to public education as we know it,” Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said as he gave updates to the district’s...