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Today's the 60th anniversary of International Literacy Day! Throughout the day, we’ll be highlighting schools across the country that are beating the odds in teaching kids to read. Is your school a Bright Spot? Find out here: www.the74million.org/article/thes... #NationalLiteracyDay #BrightSpots

The deal covers 1,300 plaintiffs whose child sexual abuse cases are tied to the Catholic Church. A 74 analysis shows 337 of those cases name schools. @amandageduld.bsky.social reports www.the74million.org/article/fina...

Dusseault & Harrison: Partner organizations can help states move from isolated experiments to coherent policies that benefit every school and student bit.ly/3UhILzi

#SCOTUS turned down two earlier cases about K-12 selective admissions because the legal questions needed “more time to percolate in the lower courts,” said Chris Kieser, a senior attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation bit.ly/4ilZn0Q

Brown: Policymakers should follow Indianapolis’s model and pair school-level autonomy with system-level accountability and shared infrastructure bit.ly/4yN8MF8

Over the course of 12 months, The 74 interviewed more than a dozen of students about what it was like balancing school while navigating fragile life circumstances like homelessness, family illness, school gun violence and helping to pay the bills www.the74million.org/barriers-bef...

Duncan: We need a fundamental shift in how we think about educational spending and one place to start is how districts purchase products and services bit.ly/4yDl0Qs

Childcare providers’ rent, utility bills and staff wages don’t shrink when a child stays home sick or goes on vacation. But in some states, their pay does. Bryce Covert on how states pay providers and how the approach can make or break a program’s budget bit.ly/3WJWuzJ

Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota’s current lieutenant governor, brings a background in education and child advocacy to the U.S. Senate race bit.ly/47BoVlW

Adams: School integration through rezoning or the even more extreme unzoning isn’t the one-size-fits-all-solution for lagging student achievement bit.ly/4igCLPy

Education savings accounts can be a boon to private schools, but recent data from the National Association of Independent Schools shows smaller private schools, around 100 kids or less, are experiencing "acute enrollment challenges.” www.the74million.org/article/just...

McGrath & Bailey: At one charter network, early AI experimentation yielded insights that school leaders would never have gleaned from the sidelines bit.ly/4eLnpkQ

“Can you show me one single child that has been brought to Christ because the 10 Commandments were posted on the wall?” asked Glenn Rogers, a Republican and former state lawmaker who said he’s not voting for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton bit.ly/4ibLUJ7

Kline: D.C.'s $20 million Capital Math Collective will give advanced training to 1,000 teachers, expand coaching, engage families and provide high-dosage tutoring to 6,000 kids bit.ly/47DoFCO

Fighetti & Parker: With state help, and community input, districts can shutter or combine schools, save money and improve student outcomes bit.ly/4yxpacw

Rob Sand, favored to become the state’s first Democratic governor in years, could struggle to limit private school choice — or lift public school funding bit.ly/4eavGPl

California districts are using empty classrooms and even entire schools for childcare hoping they will see the same young kids in kindergarten bit.ly/4BhqMJV

California, Georgia and Wisconsin are among the states where enrollment loss hits not just districts, but also charters and private schools bit.ly/47yjjbV

After failing to persuade Colorado state lawmakers to strip protections from transgender students, religious and ultra-conservative activists are taking their case directly to voters bit.ly/3UHRriJ

CRPE’s annual State of the American Student report finds recovery efforts faltering, with both red and blue states falling short of what’s needed bit.ly/4i4uGgA

Love and Morton: Despite a recent U.S. Education Department letter, students of color are disproportionately suspended and pushed out of school bit.ly/4BkHGrq

Most of the nearly 3,200 comments on the FCC’s plan to potentially roll back the E-Rate program argued that the agency should leave any decisions about screen time limits up to states and districts bit.ly/4dMpyfM

Could early care and education be funded through ballot measures? Some places say yes bit.ly/4icpKXa

Mayor Mamdani and Gov. Hochul said the free programming will cover 17 of the city’s 32 school districts, including all of the Bronx and Staten Island www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...

Opinion: If a high school diploma is to mean anything, it must differentiate between those who have mastered the skills to earn it and those who have not bit.ly/4yTpUtB

Aldeman: Fewer states are giving incentives for educators to work in hard-to-staff subjects and schools. But bonus pay can really help end shortages bit.ly/47Iif5z

As policymakers seek to lower barriers to entry in early care and education, a recent survey reveals what early childhood teachers make of the changes www.the74million.org/zero2eight/s...

Mohn & Edwards: The question is no longer whether career-connected learning will grow, but what kind of experiences that growth will create. How two nonprofits are addressing that challenge bit.ly/4jZizE0

Li: My charter network creates a leadership pipeline by giving teachers instruction, coaching and hands-on experience. New York City's mayor can, too bit.ly/4B3ZJC5

Pondiscio: Emily Hanford helped transform how schools teach reading. Now she's challenging what teachers believe about teaching itself bit.ly/4yswTJ0

PBS Kids Senior Vice President Sara DeWitt discusses a new show rooted in the science of reading, with hopes it reinstills a love of reading for kids bit.ly/4BaHvyH

El-Mekki & Lee: 'You'd be a great teacher' is said to some kids and not others — and rarely to the boys who could become great Black educators bit.ly/4hUNiiX

Lawyer Heather Yountz said the administration has moved on multiple fronts to strip immigrant children of their status to make them easier to deport bit.ly/3TI3lc6

Research shows lower math scores among students attending schools nearby. (Published in partnership with Atlanta Journal-Constitution) bit.ly/3VM0v6v

Conor Williams: “‘Sold a Story’s’ second season will surely launch 1,000 takes … And yet, the season’s real, insistent lesson is this: schools matter, and students do better when educators teach more effectively" bit.ly/3VHvdO8

As policymakers seek to lower barriers to entry in early care and education, a recent survey reveals what early childhood teachers make of the changes www.the74million.org/zero2eight/s...

Educator’s View: What happens when a retiring curmudgeon is invited to sit on the new principal hiring committee? www.the74million.org/article/10-p...

Heather Yountz, a senior immigration attorney with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute called a lack of legal representation for child immigrants “one of the biggest parts of a well-coordinated attack” on kids bit.ly/4zqV1fS

The school’s founder has struggled to build community support for the school, but his attorneys say the board has defied a federal court ruling www.the74million.org/article/okla...

Carolyn McConnell on the consequences of devaluing care work, and why change is needed bit.ly/4zjZKzR

Minnich: A study tested whether 4 large language models could accurately measure the difficulty of 1,807 passages. The results were all over the map bit.ly/4yCtgRt

South San Antonio Board President Ray Tijerina on making tough decisions: 'We need to make sure we're setting the table for whoever comes next.' bit.ly/4jdI30j

At EDGE, students build their own weekly schedules. The result looks more like college than high school: English three times a week, with classmates from different grades buff.ly/dIb2lYO

Educator’s View: What happens when a retiring curmudgeon is invited to sit on the new principal hiring committee? bit.ly/4jMMTBI

A new study of 55K students across the U.S. found 1 in 4 had strong enough 7th-grade scores but still missed out on the gateway course to higher math www.the74million.org/article/more...

A recent essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones has revived the conversation about school integration and access to excellent schools in New York City. But what is the city doing to reach those goals? bit.ly/4emNDtL

The arrival of a guinea pig in the classroom taught 6- and 7-year-olds an important lesson about civic engagement bit.ly/4dxmtQK

Williams: The only adults not fretting about AI use can be found in the gym because no one is going to ask if a chatbot can run laps for their kid bit.ly/3VrID0D

A new study of 55K students across the U.S. found 1 in 4 had strong enough 7th-grade scores but still missed out on the gateway course to higher math bit.ly/4jdnMYK

Berkley, Cullen & Rees: Build implementation, research and parent-support infrastructure so Federal Scholarship Tax Credit delivers on its promise www.the74million.org/article/now-...

Parent’s view: School leaders need to realize what makes showing up for school on time difficult and work with families to overcome those barriers bit.ly/4AR8ajS