2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (718+ words) The Chicago school board is weighing a resolution to explore offering full-day preschool to all 3-year-olds and shifting how it provides services for young children with disabilities. “When we invest early in our students, that sets them up for success…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (627+ words) Seven new after-school sites will open across Detroit this school year using $2.2 million in city funding, Mayor Mary Sheffield announced Thursday. As part of Sheffield’s initiative to improve life for the city’s youth, the funding will allow the existing after-school…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (954+ words) It’s quiet in the back yard of Irvington Community Elementary School, which sits along the Pennsy Trail on the east side of Indianapolis. Inside, students are writing in notebooks — a break from screens in an effort to limit technology instruction....

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1096+ words) A discussion of alleged policy violations by two Denver school board members began with a quarrel about whether the board was properly following the policy on alleged violations. It ended with most members saying they take such accusations seriously, especially…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (719+ words) Should private contractors be allowed to run state-funded programs for Colorado’s homeschoolers? If so, what guardrails should exist and how much public money should the contractors get? These are some of the questions Colorado’s nine-member State Board of Education will…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (743+ words) To mark America’s bicentennial in 1976, the names of 816 children were sealed in a time capsule in Philadelphia. On Wednesday, at the visitor center for the city’s storied Independence Hall, a new crop of elementary school students opened that capsule. In…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1346+ words) More than a decade ago, Queens teacher Nicole Radosti Pipia’s fifth- and sixth-grade students seemed to love reading novels in school. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry was prized for its mystery. “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio taught them about kindness…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (755+ words) A publicly funded homeschool enrichment program that last year enrolled nearly 2,800 Colorado students will cease operating after a turbulent summer in which its authorizer dissolved and the state launched a strict approval process for such programs. Colorado Homeschool Enrichment, or…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1173+ words) Students at Lake Prairie Elementary in Lowell, Indiana hug a staff member goodbye as they depart for home on school buses on the second day of school this year. (Kristen Norman for Chalkbeat) Lindsay Bohney stares at her house’s property…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (867+ words) Career stability. The chance to give back to neighborhoods that shaped them. A knack for working with children. As more than 4,000 new teachers streamed into orientation at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center before next week’s first day of school, they shared what…...