Despite overwhelming evidence that they drain funds from public schools, harm student achievement, and lack any oversight or accountability, universal voucher laws are proliferating. Marketed as a way ...

“A family rushes into a grocery store, each child is to get an item on the shopping list and told to meet at the register in exactly one minute. Their goal is to grab food as quickly as ...

Elementary school teacher Shayna Scott worked in New Jersey for 20 years, but she didn’t realize the power of the state’s collective bargaining rights—until she moved away. Her New Jersey local, the ...

The bill the House GOP just passed is calling for trillions in tax cuts that heavily benefit billionaires—“paid for” with devastating cuts in education, health, and nutrition programs for students, ...

lower class sizes; give support to students with ADHD, dyslexia, and other disabilities; feed hungry students so they can learn; provide one-on-one tutoring; and make the cost of higher education and ...

President Biden faced deeply complicated problems from the day he took office in January 2021. Many Americans were struggling and suffering at the height of the pandemic. But even as the ...

The national average public school teacher salary rose to $69,544 in 2022-23, a 4.1 percent increase over the previous year, according to the 2024 NEA Rankings and Estimates report. Adjusted for ...

The RAND report found that well-being is especially poor among Hispanic/Latinx teachers, mid-career teachers and female teachers. Poor well-being and adverse working conditions were linked with ...

Cellphone bans in schools are proliferating in the face of mounting evidence that the devices are taking a serious toll on students' ability to focus in the classroom and their overall mental health.

The push to establish or expand private school vouchers has accelerated in 2023. Increasingly, these proposals have stripped income limits, allowing even affluent families to apply for taxpayer-funded ...

Across the U.S., 32 states spent less on public colleges and universities in 2020 than in 2008, with an average decline of nearly $1,500 per student. As a result, students need to pay (and borrow) ...

Changes in starting salaries are representative of what is happening with teacher salaries across the board, and this decrease in inflation-adjusted pay could not have come at a worse time. Though ...