CDC resignations come amid decline in childhood vaccination rates...'
Education Week--How This State Is Protecting Undocumented Students’ Right to an Education...'
Chalkbeat--Brooklyn middle school students capture top honors in national debate competition...'
Education Dive--These 4 trends are shaping the 2025-26 school year...'
The New Millennial Parenting Anxiety...'
Education Week--Trump Cancels Dozens of Education Grants—With More Terminations on the Horizon...'
Education Dive--2 dead, 17 injured in Minneapolis school shooting...'
Star Ledger--Parents of N.J. kids in special ed classes just won a major battle to fix ‘broken’ system...'
NJ Monitor--Trump administration orders states to strip gender identity references from sex ed...'
NY Times--Why Federal Money Is a ‘Lifeline’ for This Republican School District...'
Washington Post—In phone-free schools, analog entertainment brings lunchrooms to life...'
Education Week--Americans Grow More Skeptical of AI in K-12 Schools, Poll Finds...'
Education Dive--How can districts help families navigate rising school supply costs?...'
Star Ledger--How much do N.J. teachers really make? The pay in these 17 districts may surprise you...'
Star Ledger--N.J., Trump administration reach agreement to release millions in school funding...'
Washington Post—For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia...'
Education Week--‘We Need to Reimagine What We Can Do’: How Teachers Are Adapting to AI...'
Education Dive--Proposal would remove federal data collection for special education racial disparities...'
The Atlantic--Op-Ed:A Parent’s Case Against Phones in Schools...'
The Atlantic--Op-EdWhat Parents Lose When They Don’t Read to Their Kids...'
Education Week--Why One Teacher Told Students to Put Their Chromebooks Away—for Good...'
Education Dive--How are education leaders combating chronic absenteeism?...'
The Hechinger Report--Tutoring was supposed to save American kids after the pandemic. The results? ‘Sobering’...'
Education Week--How Should We Teach Math? General and Special Ed. Researchers Don’t Agree...'
Education Dive--Education Department plans return of laid-off OCR staffers...'
Edutopia--Reframing ‘Bad’ Behavior to Help Students Succeed...'
Education Week--Researchers Posed as a Teen in Crisis. AI Gave Them Harmful Advice Half the Time...'
Chalkbeat--Plenty of schools have no-zeroes policies. And most teachers hate it, a new survey finds...'
Chalkbeat--Trump administration rolls back pivotal guidance about educational rights of English learners...'
Education Week--Some Teachers Could Lose Out on Loan Forgiveness Under Trump Admin. Proposal...'
Education Dive--More parents want to use public funds for private or religious schools...'
NPR--An AI divide is growing in schools. This camp wants to level the playing field...'
Education Week--What Americans Really Think of Public Schools Parent support grows for using public funds to send children to private schools...'
Education Dive--How to protect students’ mental health during active shooter drills...'
Education Week--Trump Can’t Require Schools to Certify They Won’t Use DEI, Judge Says...'
Associated Press (via NPR)--Judge strikes down Trump administration guidance against DEI programs at schools...'
Education Week--What Happened When States Dropped Teacher Licensing Requirements?...'
Chalkbeat—Op-Ed: Student teachers shouldn’t have to make impossible choices. They need stipends and support. Their supervisors do, too...'
Education Dive--Federal judge stands by order requiring OCR be restored...'
Education Week--Appeals Court Sides With School in ‘Come and Take It’ Gun Hat Dispute...'
Chalkbeat--Are federal tax-credit scholarships ‘free money’ for Democratic governors, or a poison apple?...'
Education Dive--LAUSD emphasizes virtual school, safe zones after student detention...'
The Record--Amid NJ teacher shortage, young people aren't choosing that career. Here's what they say...'
The Atlantic--The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started...'
Education Week--Federal Appeals Court Ruling Allows DOGE Access to Education Department Data...'
Chalkbeat--Teachers lean on AI to help English learners as Trump pushes schools to integrate the technology...'
Education Dive--Communicate budget uncertainty early and often, district leaders advise...'
The Hechinger Report--OPINION: Tutoring can be a great training ground and a ready-made pipeline of future educators...'
Education Dive--7th Circuit revives Christian teacher’s religious accommodation claim...'
The Hechinger Report--How one state revamped high school to reflect reality: Not everyone goes to college...'
Washington Post (via Philadelphia Inquirer)--Is artificial turf bad for us and our kids? How to navigate the turf wars...'
NY Times--Trump Wants Admissions Data on Grades and Race, but Who Will Collect It?...'
NPR--13 podcast episodes to make back-to-school season easier on kids and parents...'
Education Week--Trauma or Motivation? Educators Reflect on the Presidential Fitness Test’s Return...'
Education Dive--ICE apprehends parent during morning student drop-off hours...'
The Hechinger Report--Adding bus stops, serving biscuits and gravy, and catching butterflies: How schools are tackling absenteeism...'
NY Times--Trump Escalates a Fight Over How to Measure Merit in American Education...'
The Atlantic--Children’s Health Care Is in Danger...'
Education Week--Teens Are the Loneliest People in the World, a New Report Finds. Why?...'
Chalkbeat--Music education programs aren’t playing second fiddle to workforce development...'
Education Dive--How can colleges help solve the special educator shortage?...'
The Hechinger Report--10 things to know about Trump’s new school voucher program...'
NJ Monitor--As ‘kidfluencers’ rise, some states make to ensure protections...'
Press of Atlantic City--New study sheds light on ChatGPT’s alarming interactions with teens...'
Washington Post--How Schools Could be Hit by Medicaid Cuts...'
NPR--So long, study guides? The AI industry is going after students...'
Chalkbeat--AI teacher tools display racial bias when generating student behavior plans, study finds...'
Education Dive--Education Department eyes special education in school choice expansion...'
Washington Post—Schools brace for potential cuts to special education funding...'
NPR--AI companies are targeting students. Here's how that's changing studying...'
Education Week--Districts Using ‘High-Quality’ Reading Curricula Still Supplement With Other Materials. Why?...'
NY Times--Public Schools Try to Sell Themselves as More Students Use Vouchers...'
Education Week--Opt In or Not? States Weigh Big Decision on Federal School Vouchers...'
The Hechinger Report (via Chalkbeat)--Child care centers often reject kids with disabilities. These states are trying to change that...'
Education Dive--Illinois 1st state to require universal mental health screenings at schools...'
The Hechinger Report--Anti-abortion lawmakers push to get fetal development education in public schools...'
The Atlantic--One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood...'
NPR--Remember running the mile in school? The Presidential Fitness Test is coming back...'
Education Week--Precalculus Is the Fastest-Growing AP Course. That’s Reshaping K-12 Math...'
Chalkbeat--Trump wants to put money for homeless kids into a block grant. School staff are wary...'
Education Dive--Want a better society? Teach kids how to be exemplary citizens...'
Edutopia--6 Things We’re Getting Wrong About Tech Integration...'
The Hechinger Report--7 insights about chronic absenteeism, a new normal for American schools...'
Chalkbeat--Penny Schwinn out as nominee for Education Department’s No. 2 job after conservative pushback...'
The Hechinger Report--What’s a tax credit scholarship? The details behind the first national school voucher program...'
Education Dive--Education Department tells states to seek waivers from ESEA...'
Education Week--What Teachers Should Know About ChatGPT’s New Study Mode Feature...'
Education Dive--What will ‘big, beautiful’ school choice mean for public schools?...'
The Hechinger Report--Federal cuts threaten a major career path for young adults...'
Chalkbeat--For America’s 250th birthday, Trump champions ‘patriotic education’ in schools again...'
Education Dive--Another lawsuit challenges ICE policy allowing raids at schools...'
Chalkbeat--Billions in federal education funding unfrozen by Trump administration...'
NY Times--How New York Schools Will Crack Down on Cellphones...'
NPR--Mental health warnings on social media? Minnesota will require them next year...'
Education Week--Can Gen Z Be Enticed to Teach? Teach for America Thinks So...'
Education Dive--Trump administration pauses Head Start immigration restrictions...'
The Hechinger Report--OPINION: Here’s how we hold on to experienced teachers: Give them the support they need...'
Chalkbeat--New NJ law requires public schools to provide parents with more information about IEP meetings...'
Education Dive--Union seeks delay in Education Department RIFs...'
NJ Monitor--Trump illegally withheld Head Start payments, government watchdog says...'
Education Week--Do We Know How to Measure School Quality?...'
Education Dive--What the Supreme Court’s parental opt-out ruling means for schools...'
Education Week--We’ve Had Too Much Hollow Rhetoric About the Urgency of School Reform...'
Education Dive--Lawsuit adds pressure on Trump administration to release K-12 funds...'
The Hechinger Report--$50 a week for 40 weeks: How no-strings cash changed the lives of teens...'
Education Dive--Ransomware attacks in education jump 23% year over year...'
Education Week--Trump Releases $1.4 Billion He Withheld From After-School Programs...'
Chalkbeat--Trump White House to release some after-school money but billions for education still frozen...'
Education Dive--Special educators are in short supply at all levels. A cohesive fix is needed, experts say...'
NPR--What the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' will change for students, schools and colleges...'
Education Week--Delayed Title III Funds Leave Districts’ English-Learner Expenses in Limbo...'
Chalkbeat--Head Start advocates pursue legal challenge to new Trump policy barring undocumented children...'
Education Dive--10 GOP senators call on OMB to release frozen K-12 funds...'
Education Week--No ‘Gender Ideology': Ed. Dept.'s New Focus for Mental Health Grants It Yanked...'
Education Dive--This New Jersey district tackled chronic absenteeism despite COVID...'
The Hechinger Report--Teachers relied on a federal website for climate education. The government may shut it down...'
| MyCentralJersey.com--If we're taking kids' phones at school, why can't we talk to them about bans? | Opinion...' |
Washington Post—Education layoffs cleared by Supreme Court hit Nation’s Report Card...'
The Atlantic--In Trump’s Deportation Machine, Children Are Fair Game...'
Education Week--Why RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Views Matter for Schools...'
Chalkbeat--AmeriCorps programs and staff score another partial win in fight over federal funding cuts...'
Education Dive--Keep special education with Education Department, former officials say...'
Philadelphia Inquirer—Gov. Shapiro sues Trump administration over $230 million in education funding cuts...'
InsiderNJ--Platkin Sues Trump Administration for Unlawfully Freezing Billions of Dollars in Education Grants...'
NY Times--What a Smaller Education Department Is Doing Under Trump...'
Education Week--Op-Ed--It’s Time for Courageous Education Leaders to Defend Equity. Here’s How...'
Education Dive--Districts and states could lose invaluable education data, former NCES leader says...'
The Hechinger Report--What might happen if the Education Department were closed?...'
| NJ Spotlight—(Podcast) President Trump’s education cuts | Hey, NJ...' |
| Star Ledger--Trump’s voucher plan hurts N.J.’s public schools, rewards the rich | Opinion...' |
The Record--Where do New Jersey's lawsuits against Trump administration actions stand?...'
NJ Monitor--Dad takes on New Jersey’s school guidance protecting transgender students...'
Washington Post—Maryland aims to help former fed workers find jobs—and ease teacher shortages...'
Education Week--The Online Behaviors Most Harmful to Kids’ Mental Health, According to a New Survey...'
Chalkbeat--Trump administration freezes $140 million for NJ schools as Gov. Murphy urges feds to release funds...'
Education Dive--School districts grapple with ‘budgetary chaos’ in wake of federal funding freeze...'
NPR--Since COVID, threats to local school officials have nearly tripled, research finds...'
Education Week--Trump Admin. Says Undocumented Students Can’t Attend Head Start, Early College...'
Star Ledger--N.J. school attorney who was paid over $6M in unusually high contract can’t return to job, judge says...'
Education Week--How Medicaid, SNAP Changes in Trump’s Big Budget Bill Could Affect Schools...'
Education Dive--Youngest students see big reading gains post-COVID on DIBELS assessment...'
Education Week--Teachers Face New Burdens After Supreme Court LGBTQ+ Opt-Out Ruling...'
Chalkbeat--National AI training hub for educators to open, funded by OpenAI and Microsoft...'
Education Dive--3 things to know about school choice in the ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’...'
Education Week--Who Will Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Hold on $6.8 Billion in School Funds?...'
Chalkbeat--Trump administration threatens sex ed grant funding over gender identity in lessons...'
Education Dive--Here’s what you need to know about the federal IDEA special education program...'
The Hechinger Report--High school students find common ground on the debate stage...'
InsiderNJ—Press Release: Gopal Bill to Reform School Funding and Special Education Support Passes...'
NY Times--Where Are the Men in Boys’ Lives?...'
Wall Street Journal--Trump’s $7 Billion Education Funding Freeze Blindsides Schools...'
Education Week--Trump Looms Large as the Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Sets Its Priorities...'
Chalkbeat--How Trump’s sweeping tax and domestic policy bill will affect children and schools...'
Education Dive--How would Trump’s FY 26 budget plan reshape special education?...'
The Hechinger Report--Another Education Department delay: Release of NAEP science scores...'
Wall Street Journal--Debate Over Improving Public Schools Is Dividing Democrats...'
Education Week--Trump May Soon Defy Congress and Cut $5 Billion More From Schools...'
Education Dive--Can this team-based staffing model reduce teacher turnover?...'
Chalkbeat--Why hasn’t the Education Department brought back laid-off workers? They don’t have parking...'
Education Dive--Missed special education targets show need for support...'
The Record--Murphy team trying to 'stall' on NJ school segregation resolution, plaintiffs argue...'
Education Week--What We Know About How ICE Raids Disrupt Student Learning...'
Chalkbeat--Newark Public Schools adopts AI literacy screener as part of state plan to boost reading skills...'
Education Dive--Federal judge orders OCR to reinstate laid-off employees — for now...'
Education Week--How to Change Teachers’ Minds About Leaving the Classroom...'
Education Dive--Phone bans proliferate as digital media’s harm to students grows clearer...'
Washington Post—Crews unearth relics of enslaved children’s lives at site of 1760 school...'
Wall Street Journal--The Tax Bill Would Deliver a Big Win for Private Schools—and Investors...'
NPR--What children in poverty could lose from the 'Big Beautiful Bill'...'
Education Week--Team Teaching Reduces Turnover Compared to Going Solo, New Research Finds...'
Chalkbeat--Trump moved fast and broke things in education. But what he’s creating isn’t clear...'
Education Dive--The future for teacher diversity in a world of DEI scrutiny...'
The Hechinger Report--OPINION: We have to work together to make our public schools great places to teach, work and learn...'
Thinking beyond ‘math people’: How can schools make math more accessible?...'
Education Dive--Majority of high schoolers say they don’t feel prepared for post-graduation...'
The Hechinger Report--To employers, AI skills aren’t just for tech majors anymore...'
NY Times--U.S. to Review Social Media Posts of Student and Scholar Visa Applicants...'
Asbury Park Press--New Jersey teachers groomed students, sometimes at the same school...'
Washington Post—Can AI identify safety threats in schools: One district wants to try...'
The Atlantic--The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius...'
Education Week--Online Rumors Can Tear School Communities Apart. How Leaders Are Fighting Back...'
Education Week--A ‘Tsunami’ of Uncertainty Is Crashing Into Federal Funding for Schools...'
Chalkbeat--AmeriCorps’ work with students nationwide in limbo despite halt to federal funding cuts...'
Education Dive--Do states have ‘statutory right’ to data, guidance from Education Department?...'
Star Ledger--How hundreds of N.J. teens are graduating high school with a college degree...'
NY Times--Should Boys Start Kindergarten a Year Later Than Girls?...'
Washington Post—As students have greater health needs, school nurses are in short supply...'
Education Week--Student Well-Being Report Shows How Kids Are Doing in Education and Beyond...'
Chalkbeat--School funding, expand charters: Where New Jersey governor hopefuls stand on education...'
Edutopia--Want greater Algebra I success? Supplement foundational skills...'
The Hechinger Report--Education Department reinstates some research and data activities...'
Linda McMahon’s MAGA Mandate: Close the Education Department—but Wield Its Power...'
NPR--Almost all of the Fulbright board resigns, citing Trump administration interference...'
Education Week--Fewer Parents Are Reading Aloud to Their Kids. Why That Matters...'
Education Dive--Unanimous SCOTUS ruling raises schools’ liability in disability cases...'
Edutopia--Using Values-Alignment Messaging to Teach Healthy Digital Habits...'
Education Week--To Ban or Not to Ban? Two Experts Sound Off on School Cellphone Restrictions...'
Washington Post—The ways government is stressing out your child’s public school...'
Education Dive--California ed chief tells Trump: ‘Keep your hands off our kids’...'
The Hechinger Report--A week of breaking news in education research...'
Education Week--Teens Are Confident They Can Succeed in Class. Do Teachers Agree?...'
Chalkbeat--Why the Trump administration grounded these middle schoolers’ drones — and other STEM research...'
Education Dive--House lawmakers find consensus on benefits of school cellphone bans...'
The Hechinger Report--OPINION: Every child deserves to see themselves represented on their classroom bookshelves and during discussions...'
Education Week--Trump Admin. Vows to End School Desegregation Orders. Some Say They’re Still Needed...'
Education Week--The Trump Budget for K-12 Schools: 5 Key Takeaways...'
Education Dive--Children’s well-being shows both progress and setbacks, Kids Count finds...'
The Hechinger Report--OPINION: Starting a school newspaper transformed the learning experience of my students and gave them joy...'
The Record--U.S. senator seeks ban on vaccinations; do I have to vaccinate my child in NJ?...'
Philadelphia Inquirer—Two South Jersey school districts will enforce tougher cell phone policies...'
Washington Post—Students applying for financial aid will face stricter ID verification...'
NPR--Do private school voucher programs work?...'
Education Week--No More Fresh Fruits and Veggies: Schools Grapple With Loss of Federal Funding...'
Education Dive--3 takeaways from OCR nominee’s Senate confirmation hearing...'
InsiderNJ--Gopal Bill to Ease Barriers for Career and Technical Education Teacher's Advances...'
NY Times--Rebuffing Trump, New York Refuses to Rescind Native American Mascot Ban...'
The Atlantic--Artificial Intelligence Is Not Intelligent...'
Education Week--Republicans Press Top Ed. Dept. Nominees to Commit to Trump’s Agenda...'
Education Dive--Appeals court continues pause on Education Department cuts...'
Edutoipia--A Look at Strength-Based Tier 2 Interventions...'
Education Dive--Trump pause on visa appointments worries districts relying on foreign teachers...'
| The Record—Yes, the Trump administration does have NJ public education in its crosshairs | Opinion...' |
NJ Monitor--Students eligible for deportation protections caught in Trump immigration crackdown...'
NY Times--A Trump Official Threatens to Sue California Schools Over Trans Athletes...'
Education Week--What’s Happening to Federal Money for Teacher Training?...'
Education Dive--Literacy is McMahon’s top priority. Senators ask, where’s the money?...'
NJ Monitor--New Jersey asks appellate court to deny school desegregation case appeal...'
NPR--Trump's budget calls for a 15% funding cut to the Education Department...'
Education Week--How Schools Think Their Legal Expenses Will Change Under Trump...'
Education Dive--Education Department eyes program cuts, consolidations in FY26 budget plan...'
The Hechinger Report--Education Department misses key deadline for delivering statistics report...'
The Hechinger Report--Trump cuts could expose student data to cyber threats...'
Education Week--Trump’s Education Budget Calls for Billions in Cuts, Major Policy Changes...'
Education Dive--More states adopt laws defining ‘man’ and ‘woman,’ adding to Title IX divide...'
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