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‘Have a great day’: How one IPS school is kicking off the new year
29+ min ago (627+ words) From the moment students stepped off the bus at James Russell Lowell Montessori School 51, they were met with cheers from waiting adults. School and district staff, along with others from the nearby Edna Martin Christian Center, lined the sidewalk to…...
Chicago school board members weigh asking city voters if they back a state millionaires tax
48+ min ago (448+ words) The Chicago school board might try to place two questions on the November ballot asking the city’s voters if they would be in favor of new revenue for the cash-strapped district. One would ask residents whether Illinois should impose a…...
NYC is acting faster on special education orders. Families still face delays in most cases.
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (974+ words) New York City has long failed to quickly provide special education services even after families won legal orders for them, generating more than two decades of litigation. Three years ago, city officials embraced a federal court order requiring dozens of…...
Newark Public Schools piloted a bell-to-bell ban on cellphones. Here’s how people responded.
11+ hour, 39+ min ago (1133+ words) Newark Public Schools will join districts across New Jersey this fall in banning students from using cellphones in class. The move follows a new state law requiring all schools to develop a bell-to-bell ban on using phones for K-12 students, although…...
Illinois released its state funding calculations for public schools. How much did your district get?
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (914+ words) Chicago Public Schools is further away from having enough money to meet its students’ needs as defined by the state, according to new data released by the Illinois State Board of Education. Under ISBE’s calculations released Friday, CPS is now…...
‘With a fine-tooth comb’: Colorado colleges and universities pore over budgets amid funding uncertainty
3+ day, 12+ min ago (984+ words) Staff reductions at the Colorado School of Mines. About $54 million in cuts at Colorado State University Fort Collins. And tapping endowment funds to sustain scholarships for students with farmer worker or migrant backgrounds at Adams State University. These decisions reflect…...
Why voting records could shake up the IPS school board election
3+ day, 52+ min ago (869+ words) Indianapolis Public Schools board candidate Lindsey Cornett has listed herself as a Democrat on the ballot, but has not met the state voting requirements to do so, Marion County voting records show. Cornett’s voting record, which Chalkbeat obtained from the…...
Chicago school board election 2026: Incumbents in two districts don????t have opponents
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1327+ words) Katrina Kasten, a mother of two CPS students on the North Side, remembers a lot of political flyers and canvassers at her door two years ago when the city’s first school board elections were underway. That year, the North Center…...
As NYC reading scores plummet amid literacy overhaul, officials investigate
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (469+ words) Reading scores sank in New York City last school year, with a nearly 14 percentage point decline among third graders, according to preliminary data released Friday. Among students in grades 3-8, about half were proficient in reading, a decline of 6 percentage points....
Vitti vows better communication, transparency, and engagement
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (657+ words) The superintendent of Detroit’s school district is vowing to improve public meeting notifications, be more engaged with parents, and host a forum to address special education concerns after being peppered with questions at a pair of virtual and in-person engagement…...