For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something ...

As privatization efforts to redirect funding from public K-12 schools to private institutions continue to expand, an ...

The plans are required under the Every Student Succeeds Act, a law signed by former President Barack Obama that takes effect in the coming school year.

A provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act allows the secretary of education to waive certain state requirements.

An act of Congress created the Department of Education and only Congress has the constitutional power to dismantle it.

Monitor efforts to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: the Every Student Succeeds Act (S. 1177 / P.L. 114-95) and the Student Success Act (H.R. 5). Monitor efforts to reauthorize ...

Following President Donald Trump’s executive order last week to dismantle the Department of Education, public school systems ...

But two topics tripped up many readers: While reading teachers spend less than a quarter of the class time on reading comprehension; that’s still magnitudes more than 1970s . State education chiefs ...

New Kensington-Arnold Superintendent Chris Sefcheck compares academic growth at Roy A. Hunt Elementary to that of a physics equation. “It’s all about momentum,” Sefcheck said. “We have every little ...

Yankton School District is in the process of applying for federal funding for the 2025-26 school year under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The statute contains several “titles,” three ...