Even more changes could be coming to public education in Texas This week's blue wave puts the fate of the state's private school voucher plan in doubt. Clay Robison with the Texas State Teacher's Association says the new governor, Gina…
I expected this to feel better. I’ve been a Never Trumper for over a decade, and Tuesday’s overwhelming repudiation of Trump, Trumpism, and MAGA is what I’ve been craving all these years. Yet now that it finally happened, I find…
Governor's decision expands access to educational resources for New Mexico students SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham today announced she will opt New Mexico into the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC), opening a new public school funding opportunity for literacy…
The public school board's program has helped many kids who might never have completed their education otherwise. Don't shut it down. After hearing parents describe their children’s experiences at alternative schools, it’s difficult to believe that the Ottawa-Carleton District School…
Across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the place of Christianity within education is being reconsidered, diluted or reframed. The details differ across the devolved nations, but the direction of travel is the same. Christianity is treated less as the…
When Moira Loader floated the idea of running Alpha for staff at St John Bosco College, Engadine, she wasn’t entirely sure why she was doing it. The college’s religious education coordinator had just helped lead a second round of Alpha…
A nationwide network of U.S. Catholic parochial schools once served about 5.6 million students — during the 1964-65 school year. But over the next 60 years, enrollment in those schools plummeted 70% — to currently fewer than 1.7 million students. The scholarship tax credit provision — which becomes effective…
Understand the city you’re living in. Get trusted reporting on the issues, decisions and changes shaping Austin. Two years after helping oust Republican state lawmakers who initially thwarted his bid to create a school voucher program in Texas, Gov. Greg…
More than one-third of Tennessee’s 35,000 private school voucher recipients live in just 20 ZIP codes, most of them wealthy and majority white, according to data obtained by Chalkbeat Tennessee. While most of those recipients live in Tennessee’s largest cities, a Chalkbeat…
Nationally, Democrats swept in a blue tsunami. What does it mean for education? Good morning! It’s Melissa with Chalkbeat Tennessee. I’m working on several cups of coffee this morning after following midterm election results last night. U.S. Sen. Marsha…
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