Author: BelieveAgain

A federal appeals court has temporarily kept grant funding in place for 49 projects designed to boost school mental health services and train new specialists to work in schools.But the temporary relief, the result of the court’s decision last week, doesn’t end the uncertainty for those grant recipients in 15 states who have been scrambling to preserve their federal funding ever since the Trump administration last spring told them it would end. Plus, it brings some new uncertainty for another set of school districts and states that have been hoping for federal money to support their own initiatives to hire…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrant parents, an issue closely watched in the education community.The justices granted the administration’s request in Trump v. Barbara to consider whether the president’s Jan. 20 order complies with the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, which says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”A federal district judge in New Hampshire…

When two Wisconsin districts consolidated in 2018, the process was far more complicated than merely blending enrollments and budgets.Leaders in the Friess Lake and Richfield Unified districts, which enrolled 175 and 400 K-8 students, respectively, had to wrestle with differing student data systems and teacher evaluation models, redraw attendance zones, close a historic elementary school, and refurnish buildings for new grade configurations. Other differences they had to navigate: school board governance, tax rates, and property values.Though both districts were in the village of Richfield, they opted to pick a new identity so that it didn’t feel like Friess Lake was…

When Ian Levy secured a $3.3 million federal grant last fall, he expected to have five years to train 30 new school counselors who would go on to work in high-need New Jersey school districts.By the end, he thought he’d have a group of counselors working in schools across the state where he could send future counselor trainees for hands-on training.But less than a year into the project, Levy is preparing to wind down much of the work to boost the number of counselors and the profession’s diversity. Instead of lasting five years, the funding for the initiative will end…

A coalition of states that sued months ago to stop mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education is now also challenging the department’s recent moves to shift many of its core functions to the U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies.The Democratic attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia argue in an amended complaint filed on Nov. 25 that federal laws require the U.S. Department of Education carry out its own programs.But the department this year has signed seven agreements to have four other federal agencies take over day-to-day management of key grant programs. Under…

Education savings accounts, tax-credit scholarships, vouchers, charter schools, home schooling, tutoring, course choice, dual degrees, and microschools are transforming K–12. In “Talking Choice,” Ashley Berner and I try to make sense of the shifting landscape. Ashley directs Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Education Policy and is a leading authority on “educational pluralism.” Whatever your take on educational choice, we seek to foster a more constructive conversation about what it means for students, families, and educators. Today, we discuss whether state officials should require testing of private schools that participate in choice programs.–Rick Rick: Ashley, a big question when it comes to…

State lawmakers have passed a slate of comprehensive reading bills in recent years that aim to align schools’ teaching, curricula, and professional development with research on key foundational literacy skills. But most of that legislation has focused on elementary school students. Now, advocates have set their sights on improving instruction for older students, who are often left out of the conversation.The swell of attention for younger students is understandable. Students who can’t read by 3rd grade are more likely to struggle academically down the road, drop out of high school, and have poor adult outcomes. But when students don’t meet…

The Trump administration took significant steps this week, on the heels of the government shutdown, toward eliminating the U.S. Department of Education. The department announced six interagency agreements to move many of its core functions to four different federal agencies. Meanwhile, Congress has yet to approve a budget setting education funding levels for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1.Here’s what that means for schools—and what we still don’t know. 2025-11-21 19:35:10 Source link

Moving key federal grants that help districts educate disadvantaged children, English learners, and rural students from the U.S. Department of Education to the Department of Labor is almost certainly going to be a major administrative adjustment for Washington. But what will the move announced Nov. 18 mean in classrooms and district central offices around the country? One way to begin answering that question: Examine educators’ initial responses to a similar bureaucratic shift that began several months ago.This summer, the Trump administration began moving workforce-connected programs—including the $1.4 billion Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education grant program—from the Education Department…

A majority of the U.S. Department of Education’s funding for K-12 schools—more than $20 billion a year—will be administered instead by the U.S. Department of Labor under an interagency agreement the two agencies have signed, the Trump administration announced Tuesday in one of its broadest efforts yet to downsize a Cabinet-level agency the president has pledged to eliminate.It’s one of several moves the Education Department is taking to offload its vast portfolio and adhere to President Donald Trump’s March executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “facilitate” the closure of her own department. And all of the interagency moves…