Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. President Donald Trump has declared English the official language of the United States. But his administration has fired nearly every Education Department staffer who ensured states and schools…

There was a funeral at the White House on Thursday. Well, kind of. In an executive order, President Donald Trump demanded the 45-year-old Education Department be scaled back to its “critical functions,” a move that fell short of his years-long campaign promise to eliminate the federal agency…

The Trump administration agreed Tuesday to temporarily bar agents of billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing sensitive student data at the Education Department. The agreement will remain in place until at least Monday, when U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss is expected to decide…

exclusive Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department Administration officials are discussing executive order that could shut down key functions of the agency Feb. 3, 2025 3:25 pm ET Fully abolishing the Education Department would require an act of Congress. Photo: annabelle…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Correction appended February 5 Despite the fiery rhetoric, President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a Department of Education he accuses of abusing “taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth” comes down,…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Some state education chiefs aren’t wasting any time letting the new administration know what they want. A dozen state leaders, all from Republican-led states, wrote to Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter When Mellow Lee’s son was in kindergarten, several of his classmates shared that they’d soon become big brothers and sisters. Eager to get in on the excitement, he blurted out that his mom, a principal, was also…

WASHINGTON (7News) — America First Legal (AFL) sent a formal complaint to the U.S. Department of Education to investigate five Northern Virginia school districts for Title IX violations against female students. AFL argues that Alexandria City Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County…

Every classroom teacher in a public school has received this call or message during class: “Please send [name of student] to the main office.” The request might include an explanation, for example, “for dismissal,” or the teacher may get no explanation for the student’s requested departure from…

Local governments and school systems in the D.C. area are going over the text of President Donald Trump’s executive orders to see how they might have to adjust to adhere to federal law. The Trump administration has reversed the 13-year restriction on immigration enforcement at schools and churches,…

Prince William County Public Schools and the local teacher’s union, Prince William Education Association, announced a new wage agreement increase in a news release Friday, totaling more than $160 million over two years. The superintendent’s fiscal 2026 proposal will include a comprehensive wage…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Anticipating what Donald Trump and his allies will do can be as much an exercise in scrying as deep analysis. That said, it’s still useful to try and read the tea leaves to at least define the likely contours of…

By Parents showing their children where passports and other important legal documents are hidden at home. Mothers and fathers signing affidavits outlining who their childrens’ caregiver would be. Guardians making arrangements with schools for dismissal in the event they have been picked up by…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This article is part of The 74’s EDlection 2024 coverage, which takes a look at candidates’ education policies and how they might impact the American education system after the 2024 election. Fresh from their…

Alexandria’s General Fund revenue sources by percentage (image via City of Alexandria) It’s Christmas for local government nerds: the annual City of Alexandria budget is almost upon us. Alexandria said in a release that budget season is set to kick off on Tuesday, Feb. 25 with a presentation to…

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Across the country, educators described widespread anxiety about President-elect Donald J. Trump’s promises to deport immigrants and what it could mean for their students. Listen to this article · 7:3

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Here we go again. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to deport millions of immigrants as soon as he takes office. As of mid-November, he vowed to use the military to deliver on this promise,

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Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter In late August, Virginia took the final steps in adopting a tougher but more honest school accountability system.

A school in Fairfax, Virginia, says student engagement has improved under cellphone restrictions introduced in a new pilot program. Teachers at Robinson Secondary School say they’re surprised by the d

The movement to restrict student cellphone use in schools gathered even more momentum when the California governor signed a law Sept. 23 that will require all public schools to develop and adopt cellp

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PHILADELPHIA — As a girl growing up here, Natalie McHugh used to play on the vast expanses of asphalt and concrete that coated the city’s schoolyards. She didn’t question as a student why there weren’

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter As a candidate for president in 2020, Kamala Harris introduced a plan to raise teacher salaries by $13,500. Why t

Monkeybusinessimages/iStock/Getty Images Plus You know the easiest way to tell that U.S. schools have gotten back to their prepandemic normal? It’s that when they’re in the news these days, it’s mostl

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter As leaders dedicated to public education, we have seen numerous reforms come and go. Battles have been fought in

By As poverty rates rise, reading proficiency rates tend to fall. Every state has a downward-sloping line like this. But it’s not fate. Districts, schools and students nationwide are outperforming wha

From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter In March 2020, Richmond Public Schools closed for two weeks to do some deep cleaning to stop the spread of COVID-

As the new school year starts, a wave of new laws that aim to curb distracted learning is taking effect in Indiana, Louisiana and other states. Students caught violating a phone ban at Timber Creek Hi

Students returning to school in a growing number of states and districts are facing tight restrictions and outright bans on cellphone use as evidence mounts of the damaging impact persistent connectio