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Students are pictured at a Rochester Elementary School pre-K classroom. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Article Summary A 2025 nationwide report on statewide early childhood education found that Illinois stalled in efforts to expand preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds. Recent governor-led initiatives ...
Economy
South Dakota to see renewed debate over teacher pay
As they head into winter break, South Dakota school districts and their teachers are in a waiting period to find out what future state funding looks like. A bump in aid is likely, but there’s a ...
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Education
Poll: Teacher retention issue in North Dakota not improving
Eighty-eight percent of North Dakota teachers feel that school districts will have a harder time keeping enough staff next school year, according to a new poll issued this month. The survey is from ...
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Education
BLEEDING HEARTLAND: Progressives win, book banners lose many Iowa school board races
Voters in Iowa’s large school districts overwhelmingly picked progressive candidates over conservatives on November 7. In many urban and suburban districts, candidates backed by local Democrats, ...
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Education
Texas Senate makes school vouchers its priority in education funding
Public schoolteachers in Texas say the state desperately needs to boost its overall investment in students and education programs. Instead, lawmakers are focused on a private school voucher program. ...
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Education
Minnesota Parents Alliance is fostering unfounded culture war ideas in school board races
The conservative Minnesota Parents Alliance (MPA), a state organization similar to Moms for Liberty, has been fostering unfound conspiracies about schools and endorsing questionable candidates for school boards.
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Education
State officials testify in Senate on Illinois anti-book-ban legislation
A pair of Illinois state officials testified Tuesday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the state General Assembly’s adoption of a bill to protect libraries from book bans and other ...
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Education
North Dakota public schools state their case amid voucher debate
New research is sharpening the focus on the debate over public funding for private school vouchers. And with North Dakota kids back in class, those tied to public education are speaking out. The ...
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Economy
Report: Kentucky school funding gap wider than levels declared unconstitutional
The funding gap between the state’s poorest and wealthiest school districts is widening, with potentially dire consequences for students and communities, according to new data from the ...
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Coronavirus
Report: Teachers’ unions did not unduly influence pandemic school closures
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say a GOP probe into whether teachers’ unions had too much influence on pandemic school closures has come up empty. A spokesperson for the Democrats ...
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Education
North Dakota schools prep for laws targeting transgender students
North Dakota school districts are making final preparations for the new academic year. But there are questions about what the environment will be like for transgender students on the heels of new ...
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