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Suspected Colorado high school shooter dead of self-inflicted gunshot

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A male student suspected of a shooting at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colo. died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds on Wednesday, according to multiple reports. Read More

September 11, 2025
Public Education
School choice measure proposed for District of Columbia

(The Center Square) – Students in the District of Columbia, particularly from the less affluent areas, stand to gain if a proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives gets a… Read More

September 11, 2025
Public Education
At least three people shot at Colorado high school

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – At least three people, including two students, were shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado on Wednesday afternoon, according to reports. The three patients… Read More

September 10, 2025
Public Education
California mother says daughter took her own life after being transitioned by school

​(The Center Square) – Abigail Martinez lost her 19-year old daughter Yaeli to suicide in 2019 and blames the public school system for pushing gender transition on her daughter. Martinez,… Read More

September 10, 2025
Public Education
LA elementary school materials push gender transitions despite Trump order

(The Center Square) – Despite a Trump administration executive order defunding gender ideology in public education, Los Angeles Unified School District materials instruct elementary children how to be transgender activists. Read More

September 10, 2025
Public Education
Public school prayer guidance from Trump admin could shatter court precedents

(The Daily Signal) – President Donald Trump could be preparing to put the final nail in the coffin of court precedent limiting the right to pray… Read More

September 10, 2025
Public Education
NYC mayoral frontrunner criticized for skimpy plan on public-school improvement 

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist nominee for New York City mayor, is under fire from left-leaning media outlets for failing to offer specifics on improving the city’s beleaguered public-education system. Read More

September 10, 2025
Public Education
Chicago student petitions to restore bathroom doors removed due to crime

(The Center Square) – A Chicago student launched a petition to restore bathroom doors after Oak Park and River Forest High School removed them. At the start of the school year,… Read More

September 9, 2025
Public Education
Lower enrollment, budgetary woes haunt Seattle schools at start of school year

Seattle Public Schools welcomed 49,000 students this week – down from more than 52,000 students in 2020 – while planning further discussions over dwindling enrollment and projected budget deficits. “Our… Read More

September 9, 2025
Public Education
North Carolina, Michigan still suffering from pandemic learning loss

The latest K-12 standardized test scores are in, and they show several states still lag behind pre-COVID-19 pandemic numbers. North Carolina and Michigan both released their annual reports showing academic… Read More

September 9, 2025
Public Education
Florida district mulls closing, consolidating 34 schools to ‘rightsize’ under-enrolled spaces

To address a “chronic under-enrollment problem,” the sixth-largest U.S. school system is eyeing 34 of its buildings as targets to repurpose or potentially close during a multi-phase plan. “What we’re… Read More

September 4, 2025
Public Education
North Carolina’s strategic public-education plan draws criticisms over academic goals, accountability

A newly released strategic plan from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) may sound ambitious, but it doesn’t specifically focus on academics, according to educational critics. “If… Read More

September 3, 2025
Public Education
Texas AG urges schools to implement voluntary prayer law

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wasted no time encouraging schools to test a new law allowing voluntary prayer during the school day in public schools. “In Texas classrooms, we want… Read More

September 3, 2025
Public Education
Chicago Public Schools lacking classroom placements for 200 students with disabilities

About 200 students with disabilities still didn’t have access to a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) classroom by the second week of this school year, Chalkbeat reported. Read More

September 2, 2025
Public Education
State report: Minneapolis schools violate laws with biased disability classifications

Minneapolis Public Schools has violated state and federal law by overidentifying black students within the “developmental cognitive disability” category, the state’s education department recently concluded. “The notification is part of… Read More

August 29, 2025
Public Education
Federal investigation launched against Massachusetts school district for disregarding parental consent

The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into Burlington Public Schools (BPS) on Monday for violating parent rights. The Massachusetts district allegedly administered a survey… Read More

August 29, 2025
Public Education
School choice participation topped 1.3 million students last school year, up 25%

Over 1.3 million students were enrolled in private school choice programs last year – with enrollment continuing to grow across the United States. Participation surged 25%… Read More

August 29, 2025
Public Education
School district letting boys in girls bathrooms likely won’t be swayed by Trump funding cuts

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The Trump administration’s most powerful weapon against schools in recent months has been the threat of federal funding cuts. For one Virginia school district, the tactic… Read More

August 28, 2025
Public Education
Grandma of 28 refutes anti-school-choice arguments from teachers’ union-sponsored group

An Idaho grandmother of 28 easily saw through the rhetoric of an anti-school-choice group that appears more concerned about preserving school systems than meeting students’ needs Nan Hancock attended a… Read More

August 28, 2025
Public Education
Charter schools in New Orleans show promise 20 years after Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina did more than level a city – it revamped New Orleans’ entire education system. “With schools closed, more than 7,000 people, including more than 4,000 teachers with… Read More

August 28, 2025