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The massive new, $900 billion coronavirus relief package finally signed into law at year’s end provides tens of billions of dollars to K-12 schools and related services to help them address the impacts of the pandemic, but still falls far short of what many education officials had hoped for. Though the package will provide additional […]

DESTRUCTION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION RECORDS  Notice is hereby given that Enterprise City Schools Special Education Department intends to destroy special education records of former students who graduated, completed their school program, transferred, or withdrew from Enterprise City Schools prior to the 2014-2015 school year. Any former student who has reached 18 years of age may […]

DeVos made no mention of those disputes but instead offered “sincere gratitude for your partnership” on a range of education issues. Most of her major policies, however, were enacted through federal rulemaking and not through legislation passed by Congress. In her letter, she pledged to continue working with Congress “doing what’s right for America’s students.” […]

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Connecticut education commissioner Miguel Cardona as his education secretary. “Dr. Cardona has a proven track record as an innovative leader who will fight for all students, and for a better, fairer, more successful education system,” Biden said in a pre-Christmas announcement. “He will also strive to eliminate long-standing inequities and […]

Now Fowler will take the helm of the public, online-focused school based in Maryland known as UMGC. It had more than 58,000 students in the United States in 2019, federal data show, and served tens of thousands more at locations around the world. Much of UMGC’s overseas enrollment comes from U.S. military service members and […]

SOUTH HERO, Vt. (WCAX) – Typical ice fishing season has already begun, but Mother Nature hasn’t been too fair to those wanting to get out on the ice. The Department of Fish and Wildlife say they aren’t replacing the warden program that people have known about for years, but their new education patrol program is […]

If realized, President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s nomination of Connecticut’s education commissioner, Miguel Cardona, as the new U.S. secretary of education will be a historic appointment — Cardona would be the first Latino in this position during a time when Latino students represent a critical force in K-12 education and the likely new majority in U.S. […]

President-elect Joe Biden is making good on his promise as a candidate, vowing to replace DeVos with someone with experience teaching; someone who knows what it’s like to manage the expectations of parents, to stand before a room of eager and not-so-eager children day-after-day, and accept the responsibility that what happens in the classroom can […]

A Distinguished Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Chester E. Finn, Jr., joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Finn’s new policy analysis, which looks into the state of school accountability five years after the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act. Finn’s analysis, “School Accountability — Past, Present, and Future,” is […]

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Michelle Morris wanted to expand her expertise after several years working in human resources. She found a continuing education program — a non-credit training course — that would prepare her to take the certification exam after meeting one night a week for six weeks at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. […]