Bipartisan embrace of a state-funded school choice program reframed budget negotiations this week as Gov. Josh Shapiro stands by a campaign promise that’s riled many of his Democratic allies ..read more

The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is moving ahead with plans to create waivers for high school graduation requirements critics believe will hurt students that need help the most ..read more

Chicago Police, public high schools and city officials are discussing renewing the school resource officer program ..read more

A Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, Macke Raymond, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss CREDO’s latest study, which examines the academic progress of students enrolled in charter schools compared with the progress of students enrolled in traditional public schools. "As a Matter of Fact: The National Charter School Study III," is available now. https://ncss3.stanford.edu ..read more

Beth and Andrew welcome in Paul Zimmerman of the Defense of Freedom Institute about his recently released report, “Catching the Trash: Holding Teacher Unions, School Districts, and the U.S. Department of Education Accountable for the Epidemic of Sexual Abuse in Public Schools.”Zimmerman details the alarming rise in reported sexual abuse cases by teachers in public schools in recent years and explains how abusive teachers are allowed to remain in classrooms, being passed from one school district to another without parent’s having any knowledge of the teachers’ history of misconduct. We also dis ..read more

New Jersey’s attorney general filed complaints Thursday against three school districts that enacted policies requiring staff to notify parents if their children request to be called by a different gender identity, alleging the measures violate the state’s non-discrimination law.  ..read more

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona described several bright spots amid an otherwise bleak announcement this week that there has been no past-pandemic recovery for reading and mathematics based on test scores of 13-year-olds tested last year.  Despite the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ long-term trend assessment’s withering look at student pandemic recovery, Cardona said ..read more

The House Education Committee advanced a bill this week that extends flexibilities in hiring substitute teachers to ease school staffing shortages ..read more

Legislation to preserve the integrity of women’s sports got a favorable concurrence vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday, sending the bill to Gov. Roy Cooper ..read more

Pioneer Institute on Thursday released The State of Things: Tracking BPS’s Road to Improvement 2022-23, its new study on Boston schools ..read more