This article was written by Valarie Stauss on September 4, 2023, and published by The Washington Post.    NEW ROCHELLE, NY — U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and students from NY-16 at his annual Youth Conference at New Rochelle High School on June 3rd, 2023. (Emma Simon, used with permission) In 2020, Jamaal Bowman was […]

This article was written by Ron Lee on September 2, 2023, and published by Spectrum NY 1 News. As 10-year-old Rohan Rao looks forward to the start of a new school year this coming Thursday, his mother Anita Rao is temporarily feeling relief. “I’m really hoping a strike will be avoided,” the Upper West Side […]

This article was written by Mary Walrath-Holdridge on August 13, 2023, published by USA Today.    It’s almost time for back to school – or is it? For some students, like those in Indiana, school has already started as of the first week in August. For others in states like New York, where class is back in session […]

This article was written by Elizabeth Heubeck and published by EdWeek on August 21, 2023.  E+/Getty   It’s no secret that teachers have a lot on their plates. One thing they’d like to unload? “Mandatory [professional development] that isn’t helpful,” responded at least one teacher to an informal Education Week online poll this summer. Others concur. “PD […]

This article is a statement which was released by the White House on August 28, 2023.   The President and First Lady will mark the start of the school year by visiting students at Eliot-Hine Middle School in Washington, D.C. When President Biden took office, less than half of K-12 students were going to school in […]

This article is written by Beth Feritg and published by The 74 on August 23, 2023.   This article has been produced in partnership between The 74 and the XQ Institute. Lydia Nichols recalls being “incredibly shy” when she started taking classes at Iowa BIG during her junior year in the fall of 2021. The Cedar Rapids program […]

This article was written by Kara Arundel, Julia Himmel, and Shaun Lucas and published by K-12 Dive on August 1, 2023.   This is part two of a two-part series. To view part one click here.   When Mt. Diablo Unified School District was identified in 2021 as having an overrepresentation of Black students with intellectual […]

This article was written by Kara Arundel, Julia Himmel, and Shaun Lucas and published by K-12 Dive on July 31st 2023. This article is part one of a two-part series on significant disproportionality in K-12 schools. For part two, click here. When California’s Mt. Diablo Unified School District received notice from the state education agency in […]

This article was written by Beth Fertig and Edward Montalvo and published on August 2nd by the 74 million. High schoolers are building their own brands, designing and selling hoodies, and creating and auctioning sculptures from fallen trees for charity. In Oakland, California, Latitude High School’s 2022 graduates made their own branded hoodies, T-shirts, and […]

This article was written by Kurt A. Schneider, Mary Morgan Ryan, and Kristen Ninni and published by AASA, the School Superintendents Association and appeared in August 2023: School Administrator. How do you look for effective inclusion of students with disabilities across the school system? As principal of an elementary school in Lake Forest, Ill., Kate […]