2+ day, 20+ 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, 20+ 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, 21+ hour ago   (806+ words) As her 2-year-old son bounded into his brightly colored Brooklyn preschool classroom on Thursday morning, Mirlene Casimir lingered on the outskirts of the room with other parents. It was a bittersweet moment for Casimir, a nurse and the daughter of…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1102+ words) The school year started Thursday with a new policy restricting artificial intelligence and screen time for New York City’s youngest students, and many parents feel relieved. They welcome the limits, not only for what they mean in the classroom but…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (792+ words) In 2020, a wonky but buzzy new phrase entered the common educational lexicon: “high-dosage tutoring.” Academics, policymakers, and journalists, myself included, began describing the idea as a potential solution to the moment’s unfolding learning loss crisis. After all, an average student…...

3+ day, 18+ 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, 18+ 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, 20+ 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…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (411+ words) Flowers and a note on victims' names at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York on Sept. 8, 2026. Chalkbeat talked with three teachers about their memories of 9/11 and how they teach about what happened. (Ryan Murphy / AFP via Getty Images)…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (620+ words) On Thursday, New York City’s public schools will begin the first full school year under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. His signature initiative will provide free childcare to about 2,000 2-year-olds — the initial phase of his ambitious promise to create a universal program....