State-Specific Resources

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.

An elementary school teacher in Oregon has been placed on leave after showing 1st-grade students a health video focusing on genitalia and masturbation. 

Parents must prepare their children today on how to spot, document, and report propaganda and bias in their classroom.

Another 54,000 students will join North Carolina’s school choice program after the state Legislature overrode Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto this week on funding for it.

Experts expect civil rights enforcement to change and transgender students to lose new protections.

New gender identity policies in a wide variety of settings (public schools, counseling, custody, foster care, adoption, and health care) may challenge that traditional presumption.

A nurse is reportedly under investigation by the Kansas Board of Nursing (KSBN) for unspecified posts about transgenderism. 

An Ohio teacher has been charged with felony assault after she allegedly slapped a special needs child in an incident caught on camera, local TV reported.

President-elect Donald Trump is filling his cabinet with people ready to disrupt the status quo, and future Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is no exception.   Left-of-center media is already accusing McMahon of being “Betsy DeVos 2.0,” a reference to Trump’s first education secretary, and the national teachers’ union says she is “grossly unqualified.”  

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