State-Specific Resources

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that it has dismissed 11 complaints related to so-called “book bans.”

A former Indiana high school music teacher who refused to use students' self-identifying gender pronouns in school had his case brought before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit this week after his school district fired him in 2018.

The Georgia Board of Education has adopted a requirement aimed at ensuring cooperation between local school systems and public safety experts in the design of school safety policies and infrastructure.

The Trump administration’s Department of Education announced Thursday that it was working on eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from its website and workforce.

Vouchers would let parents use public funds to pay for their kids’ private education. Learn about how they could work and the political battle around them.

Two students are dead and another wounded after a 17-year-old opened fire in the cafeteria at Antioch High School in Nashville Wednesday.

Over the past two years, Governor Shapiro has made historic investments in public education — including a record $1.1 billion increase in K-12 education funding this past year, the largest single-year investment in Pennsylvania’s history.

Today’s classrooms must go beyond reading and writing skills.

An atmosphere in which ‘Jewish and Israeli students were labeled as being complicit’ in Israel’s actions.

Karen Grant and fellow school librarians throughout New Jersey have heard an increasingly loud chorus of parents and conservative activists demanding that certain books — often about race, gender and sexuality — be removed from the shelves.

The case concerns a policy instituted by the board of education in Montgomery County, Maryland, that does not include an opt-out provision.

The National Education Association, apparently still reeling from Donald Trump’s victory in November, recently held a pair of virtual workshops on battling the Trump agenda and defending LGBTQ+ rights in schools.

It is board policy in Paola to not allow posters that are not instructional in nature.

Is the conventional wisdom right that both parties have abandoned education reform? The evidence indicates that it’s mostly fair when it comes to Democrats, but not so fair when it comes to the GOP—at least if we look beyond Washington to the states.

Better days are ahead for American students as Miguel Cardona's chapter at the Department of Education has finally come to a close.

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