Education News

A longer school day may help students' math performance, concludes and evaluation of 11 elementary and middle schools in Baltimore, New Orleans, and New York City.

A new report says it's time to push for new efforts to address decades-long disparities in how resources are parceled out to public schools.

An 8-year-old boy was one of the three victims confirmed dead from the explosions that rocked the Boston Marathon on April 15.

The school board for the Los Angeles Unified School District voted last week to streamline the investigations of educators accused of serious physical abuse or sexual misconduct.

The National Women's Law Center filed a Title IX lawsuit against a Michigan district last week, charging that it had failed to respond to the alleged sexual assault of a female high school student by a player on the school's basketball team.

Armed with another $490 million, the U.S. Department of Education is poised to award new Race to the Top grants to districts for general education improvement ideas and to states for more early-learning initiatives.

After a standoff that lasted two years, the Hawaii State Teachers Association last week approved a contract that ties teacher evaluations and pay raises to student test scores.

Legislation that will expand the scope of charter schools in Mississippi was signed into law last week by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant.

A gun-control and school safety bill that had the potential to address school-based mental-health services is stalled in the U.S. Senate.

Thousands of students across Minnesota could not take the online state math assessment because of a technology failure last week.

The National School Boards Association has labeled the use of out-of-school suspensions a "crisis" in a new policy guide.

The Council on Economic Education released financial-literacy standards for K-12 last week.

Tennessee's state legislature has passed two bills that would allow six of Memphis' suburban cities to create their own districts.

Primary Source suggests three tech tools matched to three current events topics that, together, can help you teach both Common Core skills and digital literacy.    

How's this for a treat? Lawmakers in Indiana are debating whether to forgive millions of dollars in loans that the state gave to charter schools that lost their charters because they were failing academically. Read full article >>    

Relations between the Montgomery County Council and public school system officials can be summed up with two figures: 0.1 percent and 100 percent.

That is the percentage of new school spending each agency estimates will be dedicated to closing the achievement gap in fiscal 2014.

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Tough work continues in assuring everyone is on board in a Texas city with 15 independent school districts.