State-Specific Resources

At Harvard Law’s Herbert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecture, three experts — Melissa Moschella, Anne C. Dailey ’87, and Erika Bachiochi — debated the meaning of a 100-year-old Supreme Court decision on parents’ rights.

A Kansas City teacher who says she was punished for refusing to go along with the district’s anti-white racial and pro-trans gender indoctrination is suing her district for violations of her constitutional rights, state law and teaching contract.

Parental rights v. transgender rights. Which should prevail? In a specific case involving a public school in a Pittsburgh suburb, a federal judge ruled on September 30 that parental rights should triumph.

Orthodox Jewish families scored a legal victory when a U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a prior ruling.

The curriculum is optional for schools to adopt, but they'll receive additional funding if they do so. Opponents say lessons will alienate students of other faith backgrounds.

Peggy Nguyen has been a teacher for almost 30 years, but she doesn’t support teachers’ unions.

While majorities of Americans are familiar with most of the terms asked about, very few say they use them regularly, including Democrats and Republicans — though more Democrats do.

A researcher’s hiding of a study that found no mental health improvement for minors taking puberty blockers only hurt children and parents, and bordered on malpractice.

The Kansas State Board of Education told the Legislature the principles of Critical Race Theory (CRT) are not used in schools, but in December 2023, KSBOE approved a contract ...

A wave of state policies mixing public education and religion are challenging the church-state divide in public schools.

A new report from Reason Foundation ranks every state’s open enrollment laws, which allow students to transfer from their assigned public school to other public schools with open seats.

Donald Trump couldn’t be clearer. He intends to abolish the Department of Education.

Authors of the bestselling picture book ‘And Tango Makes Three’ argue that the book’s removal from school library shelves is rooted in unconstitutional, anti-LGBTQ “viewpoint discrimination.”

Wisconsin State Superintendent Jill Underly continued to unveil new spending proposals for the state, including $304 million for youth mental health, $294 million for universal free meals, $59.5 million for recruiting and retaining educators and $42 million for early literacy initiatives in the upcoming 2025-2027 biennial budget request.

You can’t fix a problem if you don’t know it exists. If we want to know whether our students are learning, we have to have a consistent way to measure their knowledge in core areas. In Arkansas, that takes the form of the Arkansas Teaching, Learning and Assessment System (ATLAS) exams.

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